Interoperabilidad y administración electrónica: conéctense, por favor

Abstract

Interoperability is the most important challenge posed to the management of the Public Administrations in the first half of the 21th Century. Interoperability allows that the data located in a point of a system (for example, those contained in an administrative electronic record, entrusted to an specific administrative body), could be used by electronic means by the whole of the system (for example, for all the bodies of the same Administration), and also exchanged by electronic means for its use by the citizens concerned, and other Public and private bodies. To achieve interoperability there are different solutions: the model can be volunteer or binding, flexible or rigid, united or decentralized. The author defends the need to maintain mandatory frames of interoperability to the largest territorial level, but it faces several obstacles: the political tensions that break when a Public power imposes a binding framework to other entities, limiting its scope of autonomy; and the impact that produce to the citizenship, and to the market, the imposition of technical prescriptions, affecting the principle of technological neutrality and the free trade system.