e-Prodat: European Best Practices Observatory

The project named “e-PRODAT” (www.eprodat.org) aims to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences between Agencies and other public bodies concerning the protection of personal data used by Governments and Public Administrations for the provision of public services, and specially those related to e-Government or based on the Internet, helping in particular to create best practices recommendations in this area.

The Project has three main goals:

The exchange of knowledge and experiences related to personal data protection in public bodies belonging to different European countries.

To create an Internet based “European e-Government data protection observatory”, for the permanent assessment on the accomplishment with European data protection laws and principles and the awareness of data protection issues among European citizens.

Identifying best data protection practices already in place for e-Government or other public bodies’ services, and building recommendations for increasing data protection standards in the public sector.

e-PRODAT Partnership

Data Protection Agency of the Community of Madrid (Spain, leading partner)
City of Bologna (Italy)
University King Juan Carlos (Spain)
Association of Local Authorities of the Municipality of Kavala (Greece)
City of Santa Cruz of Tenerife (Spain)
Abruzzo Region (Italy)
University of Patras (Greece)
Region of Western Greece (Greece)
Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Estonia)