Petteri Kivimäki, CTO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), shares how X-Road, a free open-source software, is increasingly reducing the costs of governance and allowing for e-governance solutions that better serve people and businesses in the digital age.

Currently a partnership between Estonia and Finland, NIIS will soon include Iceland. Bringing other European Union countries under the umbrella of NIIS is a short term goal of the organization. X-Road is used by government agencies in twenty countries worldwide, including Argentina, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Japan.