CEF eDelivery Accelerates Swedish ‘Secure Communication’ Project

European Commission

Swedish authorities have started working on “Säker digital kommunikation/Secure Digital Communication”, a project that helps ensure simpler and safer exchange of information between authorities.

Several municipalities, county councils, regions and authorities collaborate to provide secure digital communication. The project was launched in 2017 and is expected to run through 2020. It is currently still in the planning phase but plans to launch its pilots in 2019.

Secure Digital Communication is necessary because a majority of information exchanged daily between municipalities, local councils, regions and state authorities is of a sensitive nature and must be treated securely. Today information exchange is often still by letter, telephone, e-mail or fax. These methods take time and many people are unsure whether their information is handled securely. The digitalisation of such communication provides valuable methods to ensure increased security.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery building block is facilitating this project. CEF eDelivery enables the project to reuse existing standards, saving the Swedish team costs and time throughout this project.  CEF has supported the project in setting up the infrastructure (AP, SML, SMP) for their test environment. The project is working according to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) concept, in order to make the infrastructure cost efficient and scalable.

You can read more on the project website (in Swedish) here.