The standards were approved by the experts’ committee of the Swiss eGovernment standards agency eCH after a public hearing.
The topic catalogue structures eGovernment services on offer for the two main target groups, private citizens and business, on the basis of their needs. The aim is to enable them to locate a particular service without having any prior knowledge of how competences are distributed across and within the various public bodies involved.
SAGA.ch V4-0 (eCH-0014) lays down the basic formats and protocols for the electronic exchange of information and the electronic conduct of transactions between public authorities themselves, as well as between authorities and citizens, enterprises and organisations. The standards aim to provide a stable, reliable basic architecture for Swiss eGovernment solutions. SAGA.ch recommends them for use both with Open Document Format (ODF) and Office Open XML.
SAGA.ch (Standards Architectures for eGovernment Applications in Switzerland) is eCH’s basic technical standards guideline. It draws on international standards that have proved their worth in the marketplace. The Swiss federal authorities and a number of cantons have made compliance with SAGA.ch compulsory for public tendering.
