eServices delivered via Xroad

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eServices delivered via X-road

• Ahto Kalja
• Tallinn Technical University/
• Estonian Informatics Centre Tallinn,
  Estoniaahto_at_cs.ioc.ee/
• Ahto.Kalja_at_ria.ee

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Introduction

• X-Road is an environment for joining Estonian
  government databases over
• the Internet. By now, dozens of databases and
  information system have
• been joined now with the X-Road.
• This data resource is a good basis for developing
  and delivering
• eServices as components of eGovernment.
• The X-Road statistics show that the number of
  interactions has risen to
• 1 million per month and to 100 000 per day.
• The best eServices have been developed on a basis
  of a principle, according
• to which paper management, as a bad bureaucratic
  history,
• has been rejected for all.

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Authenti- cation
CA of servers
Users
CA of citizens
Citizen
Portal
Central server
Central server
Internet
Security server
Security server
MISP
Security server
Security server
Adapter- server
SSL channels, digitaly signed encrypted
messages
Civil servant
Central monitoring
Data- base
IS of an organizat.
Local monitoring
Local monitoring
Database processors
X-Road
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The list of services
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Information systems
X-road centre
Banks
IS of Estonian Tax and Customs Board Services
Popula- tion Register Services
Estonian Motor Vechicle Registration
Centre Services
other IS for ex. MISP II
CA of X-road
Central register of DBs
x 5 Hansa bank Union bank. Kreditb. Sampo
bank. Nordea bank a) authent. b) payment c)
services
HELPDESK
Monitoring
Centr.server II (Elion)
AS
AS
AS
Centr.server I
AS
AS
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
SS
X-road
Internet
Information portal http//www.eesti.ee
Riik.ee (for civil servants)
Information portal for enterpreneurs
ID-card CA
SS
SS
SS
KIT (Citizens portal)
EIT (Enterpreneurs portal)
AIT (Civil servants portal)
Certification agency
Environments developed by government
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3-layers architecture I
Services
Data transport X-road
Databases
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3-layers architecture II
Technology
Components
Parential benefit My vehicles My penalties
WSDL UDDI
Services
III layer
Security server Central server MISP Citizen
portal
SOAP XML RPC LDAP
Data traffic X-road
II layer
Oracle Progres MySQL
Traffic register Population register Passports
register
I layer
Databases
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X-road offers the next set of functions for
eServices development

• Authentication (ID card 5 Internet-banks)
• Authorisation
• MISP (MISP II)
• Simple queries to registers
• The service procedure development (queries to
  different databases and registers)
• Loging services and tracing of interactions
• Citizens portal (KIT) with database queries
• Data traffic monitoring - central and local
• Entrepreneurs portal (EIT)

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Best practice

• Parential benefit in Internet
• 5 information systems interact the data
• Citizens portal
• Register of Social Insurance Board (MISP)
• Population register
• IS of Health Insurance Fund
• IS of Tax and Customs Office

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DBs
Users
Register of Social Insurance Board
Citizens portal
Citizen
Population register
X-road
MISP
IS of Health Insurance Fund
Civil servant
IS of Tax and Customs Office
Parential benefit in Internet
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Best practice for citizen

• Citizen can give applications over the Internet
• Citizen does not give data, which the IS knows
  anyway about the citizen
• Citizen does not fill long application documents
  and run from door to door
• A good example how the state has simplified the
  payment system

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Best practice for civil servant

• Civil servant is free from revising mountains of
  paper documents (7)
• Civil servant is free from inputting the data
  from paper documents
• Civil servant is free from checking data in
  different databases
• Civil servant can start the process by inputting
  only the personal code of client
• There does not exist any paper applications at all

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Statistics

• At the moment (Sept. 20, 2004) we have following
  clients
• Organizations Number of agreements 338
• Databases/Service providers
• All service providers 31
• Security servers
• Number of agreements for SS 68
• MISP servers
• Number of agreements for MISPs 40

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Statistics

• Services
• The number services from all the X-road service
  providers 500
• The statistics of usage
• During the year 2003, the total number of X-road
  queries was 590 000.
• This year, from 01.01.2004 to 07.04.2004 976 829
  queries
• Average number of queries per month in 2003 was
• 54 000.
• Year 2004
• june 710 000
• july 960 000
• august 713 000

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Thank you!