X-Road

X-Road is the modernization program of national databases with the aim to change national databases into a common public, service-rendering resource, which would enable agencies, legal and natural persons to search data from national databases over the Internet, provided they are entitled to do so. At the same time, the system will ensure sufficient security for the treatment of inquiries made to databases and responses received.The aim of the X-road program is to develop software, hardware and organisational methods for standardised usage of national databases.

Vision for 2003:
The state has access to databases as an integral whole 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, which ensures that

The citizen can obtain and provide information within his or her limits of authority;

The official can use all national databases in the decision-making process within his or her limits of authority;

The entrepreneur can, within his or her limits of authority, use information included in national databases for carrying out business;

The state has become more transparent, integral and intelligible for the citizen;

The integrated use of databases helps to improve significantly the administrative capability and decrease the need for resources spent on providing the service.

Project web page: http://www.riik.ee/ristmik (in Estonian only)
Project managers: Ahto Kalja, Riho Oks