The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) Financial Inclusion Community of Practice has identified X-Road® as one of seven key projects at the critical intersection of digital public goods and digital public infrastructures.
The X-Road Community Event takes place in Helsinki, Finland, on 6th September 2019. X-Road is an open source data exchange layer solution used nationwide in Estonia, Finland, Iceland and several other countries around the world. The X-Road Community of users, developers, operators and e-governance experts has members from more than 10 different time zones.
The Faroe Islands have signed a partnership agreement with the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) and the parties aim to deepen their cooperation related to the X-Road data exchange layer.
X-Road core version 6.21.0 is released on 30th April 2019 and it provides support for consuming and producing both SOAP and REST services. From now on REST-based information systems can be integrated to X-Road without technical changes.
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) has for the first time published a new version of X-Road data exchange layer. Estonia and Finland developed X-Road together from 2015 until June 2018 when the development was handed over to NIIS.
Iceland has signed a partnership agreement with the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS). Iceland is the first partner of NIIS and the parties aim to deepen the cooperation towards a membership of Iceland in the future.
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) has published its first software releases. NIIS published new version of an X-Road extension and REST Adapter Service will be published within few days.
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) has started its first agile development sprint of X-Road software core. The X-Road technology is used nationwide in the Estonian X-tee and in the Finnish Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer service.
X-Road data exchange layer is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems. The global X-Road Community of users, developers, operators and e-governance experts has members from 11 different time zones and there are over 30 countries currently considering, studying or implementing the X-Road or related technologies.
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) has selected Gofore Plc in public procurement as a cooperation partner to develop X-Road data exchange layer technology. This framework agreement is made for three years, and Gofore is the sole supplier. The estimated value of the framework agreement is 2.1 MEUR.
The governments of Estonia and Finland decided to explore ways to bring next digital service infrastructure components under joint development into the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions, and to support the Institute in efforts to find new member countries.
The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) has published its first public procurement of X-Road software core development. This is the first time when Estonia and Finland carry out a public procurement of software development together. The X-Road technology is used nationwide in the Estonian public administration and in the Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer service.