X- Road for e governance

The paperless government is the most impressive thing which I observed here but the backbone of all e governance is X-Road project at Estonia. This distributed information systems functionality and diverse hardware and software work viz., gateways, elements of public key infrastructure (PKI) and governmental databases and information systems. The X-Road project has been a successful approach which extending interconnectivity between various databases and offering varied operations to different government and private departments.

There are following points which are need to note-

Û The standardized use of databases and to develop software, hardware and organizational methods for X-Road which allows civil servants, legal and natural persons to use data from national databases for different purposes.
Û The system ensures sufficient security for the treatment of inquiries made to databases and responses received.
Û The technical solution of the project in the creation of unified user interfaces for different databases.
Û Communication between databases and users is full secure.
Û The data exchange layer, which comprises the major part of the X-Road system, integrates the databases through user interfaces to a common.
Û The system is service-centered.
Û Data queries can be made only within services offered.
Û The user can make a query from his/her computer workplace to any service of a database that has joined the system.
Û The X-Road environment has proved the sustainability of the program,

e Voting in Estonia is also very interesting. The importance in e voting is below-

Û High literacy rate of Estonian public toward e-voting was and is positive; gender, income, education, type of settlement and even age are no important factors by choosing e-voting from all voting channels;
Û The use of e-voting possibility depends mostly on the trust in the procedure of e-voting and e voting in itself does not produce any political effects.
Û e voting can encourage the participation of voters who vote sometimes. Thus, e-voting could slow down the trend of falling participation.
Û Authentication token for all major e-services
Û The compulsory ID card with remote identification and digital signature functions.
Û Principle of transparency
Û Managing procedures
Û Technology selection
Û Physical security

IT auditors are the assurance of public reliance participate a vital function in the victorious experience. e voting has worked perfectly, all procedures have been legitimate and performed lawfully. No court cases happened which shows the transparency acceptance of system. Confidentiality of voter is in the remote unsupervised Internet voting. The legality and legitimacy of the whole election process has not been questioned for political reasons. The principles of uniformity and generality in their conjunction are participation in voting, guaranteed to voters, is convenient as possible. e voting serve the aim of increasing the participation in voting and thus protecting the representative nature of representative bodies.
Managing and making public land related data, land relation, e health and e education and security are also very good. The time saving, money saving and transparency.