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X-Road – interoperability services

The 21st century citizen-centred state and service-oriented society requires information systems to function as an integrated whole to support citizens and organisations. There must be interoperability between different organisations and information systems.

In other words they must be able to work together and data only needs to be requested from the citizen once. Estonia’s solution for maintaining a modern state is X-Road, which saves Estonians 1345 years of working time every year.

In Estonia, public organisations have their own information systems to process information relevant to the state and its citizens to provide public services. These often run on different systems that suit the function of the organisation. 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.

UXP

Cybernetica’s Unified eXchange Platform (UXP) is a technology that enables peer-to-peer data exchange over encrypted and mutually authenticated channels. It is based on a decentralised architecture where each peer has an information system that will be connected with other peers’ systems. Cybernetica developed UXP based on its experience with the Estonian X-Road system as well as independent research in the fields of interoperability, information security, and information governance. The platform has been adopted for e-governance, business infrastructure, and healthcare services.

Today, UXP is used by governments including those of Aruba, Bahamas, Benin, Greenland, Haiti, Namibia, Tunisia, and Ukraine, also by the financial sector in Japan, healthcare sector in the US and has been piloted by NATO.

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countries using UXP

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The Briefing Centre is conveniently located just a 2-minute drive from the airport and around 10- to 15-minute drive from the city centre.

You will find us on the ground floor of Valukoja 8, at the central entrance behind the statue of Mr Ernst Julius Öpik. We will meet the delegation at the building’s reception. Kindly note that a booking is required to visit us.

Valukoja 8
11415 Tallinn, Estonia