Assessment of the maturity of egoverment building blocks for public administrations in the European Union

This paper describes the results of a maturity assessment of a set of generic building blocks for public administrations in the EU. In the European e-SENS project, various generic building blocks are developed, such as eID, eSignature, eDelivery and eDocument building blocks. They should be used by all EU administrations when they are sufficiently mature. In order to assess the maturity, an assessment framework is described based on a combination of existing methodologies, such as CAMSS and ADMS. The framework contains clusters of criteria on standardization, policy alignment and business/market needs. It has been applied by the e-SENS project to a set of 14 building blocks. The main lesson learned is that standardization criteria are fairly easy to check, policy alignment criteria need to be checked in sufficient detail and business/market need criteria can only be checked properly at national level via a public consultation. Some of the building blocks are brought further to the EU Multi-Stakeholder Platform on ICT standardization, while for others improvements have been defined.