Authors:
Mariagrazia Fugini
;
Piercarlo Maggiolini
and
Krysnaia Naninî
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Employment, eGovernment, Information Systems, Cooperativeness, Public Administrations.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Object-Oriented Database Systems
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
Abstract:
This paper presents the basic developments and architectural issues of the Italian “Borsa Continua Nazionale del Lavoro” (BCNL), an eGovernment project aimed at developing a Portal for Services to Employment. It consists in a network of nodes structured at three main levels: the National level, managed by the Ministry of Welfare; the Regional level, in which Regions are grouped in local federations in order to interoperate, and the Provincial level, in turn structured as a federation of local domains. The federation is the structural tool supporting proactive and reactive policies aimed at enhancing job-placement. The paper describes each level, and the cooperation occurring in the domains and across levels. Advantages and drawbacks of this architecture are discussed. Finally, the paper illustrates the basic issues related to security and privacy in the networked environment, in particular presenting cooperative federated authentication.