According to Tiit Riisalo, Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology, this is an important step towards a personal state. ‘For the entrepreneur, communication with the state becomes smoother via the digital gateway that is being created, as Pääsuke allows them to manage employees’ access to various self-service portals of the state from one place,’ said Riisalo.
The central authorisations management information system Pääsuke has been created with the aim of combining the management of access authorisations into one central place – the entrepreneur environment in eesti.ee. The access authorisations of those authorities and companies who have also joined Pääsuke can be managed in the state portal. Authorisations can be granted and revoked according to roles, but they can also be waived and, in certain cases, delegated. Data moves securely via the X-tee data exchange layer and all parties will receive a notification in their national mailbox about all activities.
‘For the entrepreneur, the new environment means simplicity, convenience, uniformity, and speed in business management, because the access rights of employees to the various self-service environments of the state are gradually concentrated in the central authorisations management information system,’ said Taavi Ploompuu, Head of the Personal Services Department of the Information System Authority (RIA). ‘From the employee’s point of view, the new environment also means greater transparency, as well as greater control over one’s authorisations. When logging into the state portal, in the private person view, one can see authorisations from one place, and the person can waive access rights that are no longer up to date, but have not been removed by the employer for some reason,’ explained Ploompuu.
The state portal eesti.ee was the first to use the central authorisations management information system. Authorisations related to the use of its services are now managed in Pääsuke. It is also possible in the state portal to share authorisations for the use of partner services of the MaaIS information system and the Population Register. Soon, the annual reports submission portal of the Estonian Centre of Registers and Information Systems and the Agricultural Registers and Information Board will join the new information system. During this year, the Tax and Customs Board is also expected to be interfaced with Pääsuke. Discussions about interfacing are also held, among others, with Elering, Statistics Estonia, the Health Insurance Fund, and the Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre.
According to Ploompuu, the new system offers authorities and private businesses an option to stop developing an authorisations management system for their self-service environment, which helps to save money and time, among other things. ‘Pääsuke is developed to be powerful enough, offering various tools and considering the commercial aims and needs of both the state and the private sector,’ he mentioned.
In the near future, it is planned to offer the options of Pääsuke to private persons as well, keeping in mind their everyday activities. ‘For example, grandparents could authorise some of their younger relatives to manage their things in self-service environments,’ Ploompuu gave an example.
The Pääsuke project is funded by the funds of research and development and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the European Union.
Read about the options of Pääsuke on the RIA website.
