Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
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."
Re:TIL: Estonia can make IT projects work (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately the way that would work out in practice with the current government would be: If you like your Estonian doctor, you can keep your Estonian doctor. That's great if you're in Estonia, but that would make visits from the US to doctor's offices a pain.
Re:I was gonna frist post (Score:5, Funny)
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!!