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The BIG Hackathon, Bridging Interoperability Gaps featuring X-Road

The European Commission invites ethical hackers to the BIG Hackathon featuring X-Road® from 28 June to 5 July 2021.

The 'BIG Hackathon' is an online hackathon organised by an open source initiative funded by the ISA2 Sharing and Reuse Action (2016.31). It will build a generic bridge able to connect national systems to the CEF eDelivey network.

CEF eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange. By building with eDelivery, public and private organisations from different sectors can easily create a safe and interoperable channel to transfer documents and data among each other over a public or private network.

Working with NIIS, the hackathon will use the generic bridge to connect X-Road® (the national data exchange system used in Estonia and Finland) to link with software products in the market that use the eDelivery European interoperability protocol. 

Find out how to get involved on Joinup!