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i14y name Abbreviation for `interoperability’, with the `14′ replacing fourteen letters. Refers to portability and compatibility of data formats (even binary ones) between different programs or implementations of the same program on different machines.

A few years ago the Public Administrations applications were aimed to work in their own administration without any interaction with external applications. Since 2002 (in Belgium) , Public Administrations applications started to extensively exchange information with external applications. At this moment, security requirements came out. Today with the electronic Id’s, RFID, exchange of information between 27 European Union Member States, execution of workflows through several organisations came as a new IT challenge.

Those challenges will be discussed in this blog.