The Italian e-Government Service Oriented Architecture. Strategic Vision and Technical Solutions

1 SAPIENZA – Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica {baldoni,mecella}@dis.uniroma1.it 2 CNIPA Centro Nazionale per l’Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione {s.fuligni,f.tortorelli}@cnipa.it Abstract. The paper describes the currently ongoing effort for defining and developing a nationwide e-Government Service Oriented Architecture, in order to guarantee a flexible approach for integrated application services, respecting local and central administrations’ autonomy. An appropriate mixture of organizational initiatives, together with the promulgation of appropriate laws, and the development of innovative technical rules, seems to be the success factor of the approach. From a more technical point of view, the definition (i) of semantically-rich service agreements, (ii) of a repository more complex than a simple UDDI registry, and (iii) of complementary components for dealing with QoS and security, represent the core elements of the infrastructure. To the best of our knowledge, this is one the hugest and most comprehensive e-Government initiatives currently undertaken in Europe.