How Efficient and Effective is My Government?

Frank De SaerCIO, FPS Economy / Belgium

Belgium Business RegisterCrossroad Bank of Enterprises (CBE)

• CBE … the beginning

• The evolution towards … CBE 2.0

• CBE 3.0 … the future ?

July 2003 Crossroadbank of Enterprises

7 registres depersonnes morales

Justice

Internal Affairs

RPM

FinancesVAT

Social Security

NSS BNBBalance Accounts

Registres de commerce

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Attest

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New Processes

New Regulations

New Organisation

New Technology

CBE Business Re-engineering Project

CBE Functional architectureCommercialisationKBO Select

CBE as a driver for more government efficiency (1)• SINGLE DATA COLLECTION THANKS TO THE ATTRIBUTION TO EACH

ENTERPRISE OF A UNIQUE IDENTIFIER: THE ENTERPRISE NUMBER

• SIMPLIFICATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES FOR ENTREPRISES : DRASTICAL REDUCTION OF STARTUP TIME OF A NEW COMPANY

• ONE VERSION OF THE TRUTH : NO MORE NEED FOR REDUNDANT DATABASES WITH COMPANY INFORMATION

• ONE VERSION OF THE TRUTH : CBE AS SOURCE FOR COMPANY STATISTICS, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, SAMPLES,..

CBE as a driver for more government efficiency (2)• CBE AS CORE SYSTEM FOR SIMPLIFYING COMPANY RELATED

PROCESSES: AUTORISATIONS, REGISTRATIONS, LICENCES , PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• CBE AS AUTHENTIC SOURCE FOR USER AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT : HOLDING THE FUNCTIONS AND MANDATORIES OF PERSONS WHO ARE EMPOWERED TO REPRESENT THE COMPANY

• CROSSROAD TOWARDS LINKED INFORMATION : BALANCE ACCOUNTS, OFFICIAL GAZETTE, EMPLOYERS REGISTER, AUTORISATIONS,…

• ONE SINGLE POINT OF ENTRANCE : DIRECT & ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION FROM CBE TO BELGIAN OFFICIAL GAZETTE

CBE as a driver for more government efficiency (3)• AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION : UPLOADING & UPDATING FROM

OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES

• AUTOMATIC DATA DISTRIBUTION ON DIFFERENT FORMATS : PUBLIC SEARCH, PRIVATE SEARCH, FTP, WEBSERVICES, EXTRACTS, COMMERCIALISATION…

• CBE AS DATA SOURCE FOR ECONOMIC REGULATION : FRAUDE DETECTION, INSPECTION, …

• CBE DATA AS SOURCE FOR AUTOMATIC PROVISIONNING OF LICENCES, AUTHORISATIONS…

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We can do better….

CBE 2.0 ….

Open Data …. Open Services

CBE 2.0 Projects (1)• CBE SELF SERVICE – company empowerment

• CBE SELECT – interactive query system

• CBE PUBLIC SEARCH WEBSERVICE

• CBE COMPANY LIST – on activity, zip code,…

• CBE E-SAFE – electronic document box

CBE 2.0 Projects (2)• CBE TAP – workflow for authorisations

• CBE LINKED COMPANIES – company profiling

• CBE PUBLISHING ENGINE – towards Belgian gazette

• CBE GEO-APS – output on maps

• CBE EU – connecting to other EU registers

Towards an European Business Register ?

CBE - EU

CBE EU Projects• BRITE

• SPOCS

• E-JUSTICE

• EUGO

• EBR / ECRF / BDS

Drivers for an European CBE• GLOBALISATION / ECONOMIC EXPANSION

• DATA QUALITY : EU-LINKED COMPANIES / CROSS BORDER MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

• INTERNATIONAL ANTI-FRAUD MECHANISMEN

• COORDINATION OF INITIATIVES, REGULATIONS AND PRIVACY ISSUES

And the future of CBE ?

Open Service … Open data

Delivering added value… CBE 3.0

Transparent… Participative …Collaborative

Connected with other data sources…

Security/Privacy Open data

Some ideas for an “openCBE 3.0• DELIVERING ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT BY COMPANY

• LINKING ON COMPANY INSIDE INFORMATION – EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION, AGE PYRAMID, SKILLS

• INNOVATION INDICATORS.. NUMBER OF PATENTS… R&D INVESTMENTS

• EMPLOYMENT GENERATION BY COMPANY

• PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITIES … TRAFFIC JAM INFO

Some ideas for an “openCBE 3.0

INFORMATION AND CONTACTFPS Economy, SMEs, independent Professions and Energy

Management Service of the Crossroads Bank for EnterprisesNorth GateII, Kon AlbertIIlaan 16, 1000 BRUSSELS

URL: http://www.economie.fgov.be and www.belgium.beContact Center: 02/277.64.80E-mail: Helpdesk.kbo-bce@economie.fgov.be

Public Search: URL: http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/