e-Estonia Programme for Sparkassen Delegation

Estonians are pathfinders, who have built an efficient, secure and transparent ecosystem that saves time and money. e-Estonia invites you to follow the digital journey. The initial part introduces and demonstrates the underlying mechanisms involved in digitizing a society, an overview of the main challenges and policies, an understanding of the infrastructure, e-solutions and services.

With NIIS

X-Road® is a distributed information exchange platform that makes it possible for these different systems to communicate all across the governmental sector; for example, the police can access data from the health system, tax board or business registry and vice versa. But to do this X-Road must satisfy three criteria. First the platform must be interoperable and technically easy for each member of the system to access the data they need. Second, the data cannot be corrupted in transit by the system or an external third party. And third, the data must be protected from prying eyes so that unauthorised individuals cannot view the content of the data en route.

X-Road® has satisfied all three criteria since 2001, performing all the required functions for the state and the people of Estonia. It has enabled to increase the depth of cooperation between public organisations and reduced paper work exponentially so that public employees can concentrate on tasks that require human interaction.

Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) is a non-profit association with the mission to ensure the development and strategic management of X-Road®  and other cross-border components for digital government infrastructure. The republics of Estonia, Finland and Iceland are members of NIIS.

With Cybernetica

The X-Road is the backbone of e-Estonia and was initiated by the Estonian government to enable secure data exchange between governmental organisations. The first version was developed by Cybernetica and launched in 2001.

X-Road is a distributed information exchange platform that makes it possible for all different systems to communicate all across the governmental sector; for example, the police can access data from the health system, tax board or business registry and vice versa.

It has enabled to increase the depth of cooperation between public organizations and reduced paper work exponentially so that public employees can concentrate on tasks that require human interaction.

Conclusion of Interoperability session

With LHV 

LHV was founded in 1999. We have over 800 people working for us. Our offices are located in Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. More than 530,000 clients are using our banking services, LHV’s leading pension funds have nearly 174,000 clients and LHV Kindlustus protects a total of 136,000 clients. We are more innovative than the other banks and we have the strongest investment and entrepreneurship experience.

With SK Id Solutions

SK Id Solutions is the partner of the Estonian state in issuing certificates for national identity documents (ID-card, Mobile-ID, Digi-ID, residence permit card and e-resident’s Digi-ID).
The Estonian e-ID has been in use since 2002 and is used as the main identification method for government and also privat servises like Banking and Telcos.
Last year SK ID solution analysed the footprint of e-ID services and they can give an overview to the findings of the study.

With Finantsinspektsioon

Finantsinspektsioon is a financial supervision and crisis resolution authority with autonomous responsibilities and budget that works on behalf of the state of Estonia and is independent in its decision-making.

The work of Finantsinspektsioon is funded by the supervision fees and procedure fees paid by the subjects of financial supervision.

With: Proud Engineers

If possible Taavi Kotka, the former CIO of Estonia, the mastermaind of e-Residency and Data Emabssy.
Proud Engineers is a boutique team of architects (engineers, lawyers and institution builders) with hands-on experience building Estonia’s digital society. More than strategy, we solve the big digital transformation challenges for governments and large corporations. Genuine digital society is more than e-Government, it depends on tight collaboration between the private and public sectors and continuous engagement with citizens. So Proud Engineers works closely with both national and enterprise partners across the world to transform their societies.