LD-CAST project specifies, designs and develops an European-wide cooperation framework supporting Chamber of

Commerce to provide seamless and transparent cross-border services to their enterprises.

The platform also develops and evaluates an integrated, interoperable platform for one-stop Local Agency that is based on the concept of business-episodes.

It is accompanied by a coherent framework for realizing and exploiting one-stop Local Agency at all levels (European, national, regional and local).

The project enables therefore cross border pan-European cooperation between Chambers of Commerce & industry in order to support the development of private companies/initiatives

The possibility to work at European level allows specialise the EIF guidelines adopted by the EU for e-Government projects. 

Moreover having several Chambers of Commerce as direct partners of the project and building an extended target groups including some other institutions interested in exchanging cross-border services has allowed the definition of ontologies and reference business processes that can can easily reused, instantiated and customised by several Chambers of Commerce ensuring interoperability and enabling larger deployment.

The LD-Cast system is focused on a set of Business Episodes [meant as self-standing events in the life of the business organization] including the delivery of cross-border services.

A given business episode may imply either a single business process or several business processes to be performed in a given sequence, possibly involving different organizations; the service delivery is customer-oriented, transparent, and it follows the so-called one-stop shop approach.
In order to identify the most used Business Episodes, an in-depth analysis has been conducted among the four countries involved into the project (demand-drive approach).

Among the cross-border services, for instance, the following have been evaluated as relevant in the given context:

>> Establishing a joint-venture
>> Sub-contracting
>> eProcurement

The LD-CAST contribution focuses on:
>> Search for partners
>> Transfer of legal documents
>> Transfer of financial documents.

The business episodes listed represent the very first requirement of every international trading partnership. Due to their extreme flexibility, they allow the inclusion in any future implementation of further well-connected contractual relationships.

Each business episode is associated with the relevant actions and interactions with and between the public administrations.
The implementation of cross-border services encloses a deep collaboration between different organizations / institutions that  have to establish an agreement between them at Organizational, Semantic and Technical level.

The organizational interoperability includes Multilateral agreement between three  actors (Local Agency, Service Provider and central EU Global Agency); Security and Privacy (adoption of Federated Authentication and Authorization); Infrastructure
Subsidiary (business activities provided by SPs as “black box” with declared entry and exit points); Customer driven services (designed around the “business episode” concept and adoption of one-stop shop approach); Multilingualism (information provisioning in 5 languages, access to services in English and documents in native language and/or English).

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