The webinar had simultaneous interpretation in English, Spanish and French.

Talking interoperability is a dialogue series being convened by the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI) to facilitate in-depth technical conversations around designing for interoperability in the social protection sector. By bringing together digital social protection and technology experts from government agencies, software vendors, system integrators and international organizations, it aims promote peer-based learning and problem solving through:

• sharing the technical nitty-gritty of how agencies have designed their social protection information systems for interoperability
• understanding how agencies have tackled the major challenges to interoperability
• brainstorming potential solutions to remaining bottlenecks

The sixth session of the dialogue series discussed the experience of the social security institutions, and in particular the National Old-Age Insurance Fund (Caisse nationale d'assurance vieillesse - CNAV) of France, leveraging interoperability techniques to integrate the information systems of individual social programmes and how they put into practice current trends towards the coordination of social policies and programmes.

The session talked about the experiences, the technological achievements and lessons learned. It showed as to how they have established interoperability between their social security system and set the stage for integrated social security policy.

Speakers

Maria Kitanova, Director of IT Landscape and Expertise, Information Systems Department, National Old-Age Insurance Fund (CNAV), France
Andres Chamba, Social Protection Specialist, World Food Programme
Sudhanshu Jain, Associate Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers private limited

Moderator: Bonaparte Ruhamya Byuma, Planning and Research Division Manager, Rwanda Social Security Board 

This was the sixth meeting of the "Talking interoperability" dialogue series organised by the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI). These meetings aim to facilitate in-depth technical conversations around designing for interoperability in the social protection sector. By bringing together digital social protection and technology experts from government agencies, software vendors, system integrators and international organisations, they aim to promote peer-based learning and problem solving.