| elap:PURI | http://data.europa.eu/2sa/elap/level-playing-field |
| dct:title | Level playing field |
| dct:description | (Statement) A Level playing field ensures that all participants have equal opportunities to collaborate and participate eliminating monopolistic barriers to entry across all layers of digital public services creation. |
| dct:description | (Rationale) Implementing a Level playing field in solution architecture is essential for fostering a fair and competitive environment. It prevents monopolistic situations where a few entities dominate due to their control over vast amounts of resources, including data, infrastructure, and digital services. By ensuring that new entrants face no insurmountable barriers, it encourages innovation and improves the overall quality of services. This principle is pivotal for creating a fair digital public services ecosystem, where collaboration and participation are based on service excellence rather than resource control, ultimately benefiting consumers and promoting a healthy market. For example, public administrations at different levels (State, Regions, Local) should be able to collaborate and join efforts in new services without being limited by their varying levels of resources. Another example, when procuring any kind of digital public service solutions, public administrations should provide as much information as possible to all participants, ensuring that all possible candidates have access to the same information, so all play by the same set of rules resulting in formal equality of opportunity. |
| dct:description | (Implications) To establish a Level playing field, organisations must adopt policies and practices that promote accessibility and interoperability across all layers of digital public services. Business processes should be designed to ensure that resources are shared fairly and transparently, with clear guidelines to prevent monopolistic practices. Technically, solutions must support open standards and APIs to facilitate resource exchange and ensure that governance frameworks are in place to manage access and usage equitably. Additionally, technical agreements and mechanisms must address the needs and expectations for infrastructure, ensuring that infrastructure resources are shared, reused, and utilised effectively, without implying unfair situations between participants that could extend to the service's end users. Additionally, continuous monitoring and enforcement mechanisms are necessary to maintain a fair competitive landscape and address any emerging monopolistic tendencies. Collaboration and reuse should be encouraged to ensure that all participants can contribute effectively, regardless of their resource levels. |
| elap:scope | Business agnostic |
| elap:Category | Digital Public Service Strategy (Public Policy Cycle) |
| dct:source | Design Principles for Data Spaces Position Paper |
| dct:source | https://design-principles-for-data-spaces.org/ |
| rdfs:comment | The position paper underlines the importance of data spaces and though the sovereign sharing of data in creating the future data economy. |
| dcat:theme | Organisational IoP, Technical IoP |
| elap:paGovernance | NPG |
| elap:influenceInDPSLifecycle | Obligation |
| elap:influenceInDPSAttribute | Obligation |
| dct:relation | eira:DigitalPublicServiceDeliveryModelBusinessCollaboration |
| dct:relation | eira:MachineToMachineInterfaceApplicationInterface |
| dct:relation | eira:HumanInterfaceApplicationInterface |
| dct:relation | eira:ComputingHostingNetworkingAndDataHostingInfrastructureRegistryTechnologyService |
| dct:relation | eira:HostingFacilityFacility |
| dct:relation | eira:TechnologyInterfaceTechnologyInterface |