Presentation about Estonian-Finland common future: cross-border and shared services. Thanks to colleagues in Estonian Government Office and Information System Authority who provided information and some slides.

1. Common Future – Developing Cross-Border Services
Risto Hinno Liivi Karpištšenko Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications 19.11.2014

2. X-Road in Estonia

3. Client
End-user services
X-Road
Local technology/ databases

4. Document Exchange Centre (DEC)

5. DEC
Information system providing a common central records exchange service for EDRMSs and other information systems dealing with documents/records
Connected to the State Portal service “My Mailbox”
Alfresco
GoPro
DEC
SharePoint
National Archives

6. DEC “envelope” – XML container
•Sender
•Receiver Record metadata:
•ID (GUID recommended)
•Type
•Date
•Registration Number
•Language
•[Comment (for the receiver)]
•Contact Information (phone, e-mail)
•Computer File Information
•[Reference number & date]
•[Public access restricted]
•[Signature Information]

7. EDRMSDECNational Archives

8. DEC
•In operation since 2006
•European e-Government awards:
•Used for exchanging “traditional” electronic records (.pdf, .doc, etc.) + e-invoices, legal acts, e-forms (.xml)
•( Merits (compared to e-mail):
 secure transfer
 no spam
 tested with large files (several GBs)
 agreed set(s) of metadata
 asynchronous process; feedback (received)

9. DEC – Current Usage
Users (public sector):
•Constitutional Institutions – 100%
•Government Office + ministries – 100 %
•Governmental Agencies – 100 %
•County Governments – 100 %
•Local Governments – 86%
•Others  30% Records exchanged per month:  30 000 Delivery pending more than 24 hrs: < 1%

10. DEC – Cost Savings
*2012
*

11. DEC – Cost Savings vs ICT costs
Cost savings €, cumulative
ICT costs €, cumulative
DEC – cost savings vs ICT costs

13. Co-operation between Finland and Estonia
•Started officially in 2013
•Discussions between ministers
•Discussions between Estonian Information System Authority (EISA) and Ministry of Finance Finland (MFF)
•Memorandum of Understanding about the co-operation in the field of ICT signed 12th December 2013 (digitally) by Prime Ministers
•Estonia grants Finland X-road source code

14. Image source: Govt. Office of Estonia
World’s first digitally signed intergovt. agreement Dec. 2013
Cross-border e-gov: FI-EE

15. Cooperation considering data exchange
Tax area:
•Payments made to employees
•Withheld and calculated taxes
•Employers of a natural person
•Payments and taxes subject to social tax
•Control of tax arrears’ absence
•Legal person’s data on VAT

16. Co-operation considering X-road
•X-Road will be implemented in Finland
•Start of the production use planned H1/2015
•Finland will implement X-Road version 6

17. Co-operation considering X-road
•New version of X-road is coming (v6)
•Implemented in Estonia and Finland
•One core X-Road which both countries implement independently
•Co-operation in next versions more tight-knit

18. FI-EE Cooperation: Nordic Institute
•Non-profit organization
•Countries (public sector) as members/owners
•Initiating members Finland and Estonia

19. FI-EE Cooperation: Nordic Institute
•Focus on research & development
•Members are responsible for maintenance
•Partners for consultation
•Private sector & non-member countries

20. Organizational Setup

21. Institute Focuses
•Requirement management
•Conducting R&D
•Maintenance of documentation and product source code
•Licensing and distribution of products
•Community building

22. Products
•X-Road
•Electronic Identity
•Catalogue of services
•Internet Voting System
•Semantic toolkit
•Open Data Gateway

23. Future: shared services

24. Impact
•GDP:
•Finland: 770 mln $ - 12 845mln $
•Estonia: 73 mln $ - 1 224mln $
•Innovation
•Model for others
Sources: The Economic Impact of Interoperability – Microsoft
http://countryeconomy.com/

25. Introducing: e-residents
http://e-estonia.com/e-residents

26. Source: http://akupaka.deviantart.com/art/Finland-and-sister-Estonia-177422478/

27. Thank you!
Risto Hinno Risto.Hinno@mkm.ee Liivi Karpištšenko Liivi.Karpistsenko@mkm.ee