Digital administration services should be simple, intuitive and usable for as many people as possible. For this to succeed, they need to be designed in a more user-centered way. The “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS, together with the Public Service Lab, has compiled a guideline for user-friendly digital administration services.

The latest publication “Recht Digital – Maschinenverständlich und automatisierbar” (“Law Digital – Automatable and readable by machines ”) by the “Competence Center Public IT” (ÖFIT) at Fraunhofer FOKUS deals with the question of how laws must be designed and how the legislative process can be adapted to facilitate (partial) automation of the application of law.

The European Commission appoints Fraunhofer FOKUS as part of a three-member consortium to develop the European “Support Centre for Data Sharing” (SCDS). On July 15, a beta version of the SCDS was released. Along with two other partners, Fraunhofer FOKUS has been commissioned to set up and operate the SCDS.