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Check the new release of Vocbench, a platfom for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information
VocBench is a web-based, multilingual, collaborative development platform for managing and sharing reference data and controlled lists of codes and terms used to organise information. With persistent…
NEWSCreated: 30/09/2021
A conversation with Petteri Kivimäki on X-Road®
Petteri Kivimäki, CTO at the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), agreed to be interviewed on the history and the impact of X-Road®, the open source data exchange layer solution…
NEWSCreated: 09/08/2021
New Estonian law requires administration to make state-owned software publicly available
Estonia is known for its tech-savvy government, regularly topping international indicators, such as the European Commission’s DESI Index for Digital Public Services. The Estonian government states…
NEWSCreated: 02/07/2021The Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) published the first results of the X-Road Emissions Calculator Project.
In collaboration with Gofore Plc and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NIIS assessed the environmental footprint of the X-Road ecosystem solution, in order to reduce its CO2 emissions and…
NEWSCreated: 05/05/2021Germany trials X-Road to provide interoperable digital prescriptions
In times of COVID-19, trustworthy, interoperable public sector solutions are of special importance. Germany is trialing further digitisation of its healthcare and is relying on X-Road® data exchange…
NEWSCreated: 09/12/2020Highlights of Interview - NIIS - X-Road
Introduction ABR project team handled an interesting discussion with authorities from Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) based on the questions from the Interview Guide. We are…
NEWSCreated: 10/11/2020Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia join EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
This month the Linux Foundation launched the CHIPS Alliance, which will be home to open source projects related to microprocessors and Systems on a Chip (SoCs). All the early backers — Esperanto…
NEWSCreated: 20/03/2019Potential security flaw in Estonian ID card chip
The government of Estonia is investigating a potential security vulnerability affecting the country’s ID cards and digital IDs. Estonia’s public key database has been closed, to minimise the risk of…
NEWSCreated: 06/09/2017Estonia Pilots Metadata Harvesting Solution
The Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) has developed a metadata harvesting solution based on the Core Public Service Vocabulary Application (CPSV-AP). The CPSV-AP has been employed in order…
NEWSCreated: 15/02/2016NIFO renews comparison of interoperability frameworks
The National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) community is making available a new series of factsheets, following a recent analysis of the policies and activities on interoperability in…
NEWSCreated: 27/06/2014EE: State's Internet domains receive a security extension
DNSSEC protects Internet users and domain owners by giving a guarantee that the user has not been unwittingly redirected to another page from the page they were trying to reach. While the web pages of…
NEWSCreated: 16/05/2014EE: eID card a ten-year success
The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board's service centre director Ms Tatjana Portnova said that people have been showing increasing interest in the use of the eID card: "Over the last years, the…
NEWSCreated: 10/02/2012