The role of applicative cooperation in the Marche Region Enterprise Architecture

The increasing size and heterogeneity of the Information Systems in the Public Administrations are forcing the use of reference models and policies to manage their complexity. Enterprise Architecture has been developed all around the world to introduce a strategic planning frameworks and to align Information Systems with the government functions that it support. The European and Italian scenarios recognize the role of Enterprise Architecture, among the others, to govern Public Administrations interaction with other stakeholders. Regional government represents technological and governance enablers for the local administrations, in most of the case municipalities, during the development of digital administrations according to the national and European guidelines. In this way it is possible to support Public Administrations innovation focusing on small scale local challenges. In this paper we present the Marche Region experience for what concern the applicative cooperation policies deployment according to the reference Enterprise Architecture.