eEnviPer: Environmental Permits Over the Cloud

Under the influence of the Digital Agenda initiative, governments and authorities across Europe adopt e-government tools in order to strengthen their efficiency and their ease of services provided to citizens. However, e-Environment services, as a category of e-Government services, are still underdeveloped or fragmented. This study presents the eEnviPer platform which offers an e-government tool for environmental permitting services to citizens. eEnviPer relies on and benefits from innovative technical approaches, such as clouds of public services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) to built open, flexible and collaborative e-government services, while at the same time lowering ICT costs. Five real life pilot cases were deployed in different European countries that prove and demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed platform.