Context
Flanders has a fragmented enforcement landscape: more than 300 local authorities and numerous inspection services worked with a variety of file systems. Information exchange often took place on an ad hoc basis, on paper or through unsafe channels. This led to double registrations, slow lead times, and limited transparency for citizens, businesses, and for inspection services themselves. One service did not know what the other service had determined so there was no overall picture, no shared information, limited cooperation, and therefore poor enforcement, with all the consequences.
Objectives
The Flemish Enforcement Platform (Vlaams Handhavingsplatform – VHP) brings all findings together in one digital system. In this way, competent authorities are immediately given a complete picture, they can act more quickly and in a more targeted way, and the fragmentation that made enforcement so difficult in the past disappears. The VHP not only ensures less impunity, but also less paper and more efficiency. This is how people work digitally, safely, and transparently.
Implementation
The VHP was developed through a collaboration between the Justice & Enforcement Agency, Digital Flanders, and the DXC-Cegeka consortium. The platform integrates various building blocks of Digital Flanders for authentication, data exchange of authentic sources, digital signing, and so on. The development is done through an agile project methodology. End-users were informed and trained in various phases to be able to use the platform afterwards.