Secure Data Exchange in Digital Government Context

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X-Road is an MIT‑licensed data exchange layer that actually runs nationwide in Estonia, Finland and Iceland, implements security servers that handle TLS certificates and signed timestamped logs, federates ecosystems for cross‑border exchange, and provides per‑service access control and audit evidence. NIIS runs development with six core engineers, releases twice yearly and shipped X-Road v7 released Nov. The community grows from ~50 to 1500 community members, deployments span tens to hundreds of organizations and federation of central components can be completed in about 30–60 minutes.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:54X-ROAD VS POINT-TO-POINT
3. 8:28X-ROAD FEATURES
4. 11:53X-ROAD ARCHITECTURE
5. 14:59X-ROAD SECURITY
6. 16:41X-ROAD ECOSYSTEM
7. 19:35TRUST FEDERATION
8. 22:47X-ROAD COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
9. 25:29X-ROAD TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
10. 29:55NIIS RESPONSIBILITIES
11. 30:46NIIS GOVERNANCE MODEL
12. 33:49DEVELOPMENT MODEL
13. 37:29X-ROAD DATA EXCHANGE

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