On 26-27 October this year, another edition of the international CommonSign Warsaw 2016 conference took place: Electronic Signature Interoperability Summit. The conference serves to build an open interdisciplinary discussion of practitioners on the mechanisms of interoperability of trust services. Polish and foreign suppliers and recipients of applications and trust services, as well as representatives of administration and science, are invited to participate in the conference.
The leading thematic blocks of this year's conference were: the EU eIDAS regulation implemented since 2014, with particular emphasis on issues important for consumers and service providers e-identification - projects important for the practice of economic and social life in Poland interoperability as a key problem in a situation where many tools are used and new ones are being introduced to the market. DELab UW was represented by Dr. Agnieszka Pugacewicz, who presented the situation of e-administration in Poland in comparison with the European Union countries. In macroeconomic terms, there is a clear gap in the use of the online offer of public institutions by private users in Poland compared to other EU countries. In turn, Polish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are among those entities that are at the forefront of the EU rankings of implementing public e-services. Most of them (90%) use an electronic communication channel in relations with offices. Polish SMEs offer their products and services in domestic and foreign online public procurement systems more often (4th place in the ranking, just behind Ireland, Lithuania and Estonia) than companies from most other EU countries. On the other hand, the level of openness of public data for reuse in Poland is one of the lowest among OECD countries. The introduction of secure and easy-to-use trust services, offered by the new eIDAS regulations, will significantly facilitate all public administration relations: with citizens and business. More information about our e-administration study can be found in the report: E-administration in Poland against the background of the European Union. How we (do not) use it.