Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland

paavo512 writes "For the last decade or so, Estonia has developed a national electronic data exchange layer called X-Road. Is is based on national electronic ID cards and allows creation of common electronic services like founding a company, declaring taxes or e-voting. Every day, over 800,000 enquiries are made via X-Road (the population of Estonia is 1.3M). According to the PM of Estonia, the solution is saving 2% of national GDP annually. The Estonian ID card technology was originally imported from Finland; however, it appears Finns have for 10 years failed to come up with any significant e-services making use of them. So it is now agreed that Estonian X-Road solution will be expanding to Finland as well."

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Re:I was gonna frist post

[cayenne8]

but then i didn't know what to say.

Well, then, I'll help you.

PLEASE US Feds and State leaders, pass by this idea, don't dwell on it and for God's sake, don't try to implement it.

We can't even get a fucking website working...please don't fuck with a National ID...we'll all be screwed.

It won't work here....just tell us a tax amount, and leave us alone!!