The Neuquén State runs on X-Road: data is requested only once and the file is 100% digital

Neuquén runs its State's interoperability on X-Road, the same open-source platform used by Estonia and Finland — that is how the province presented it when announcing the law (official release Neuquén Informa, 06/25/2021); the text of Law 3290 names no platform and only orders priority for technologies "of open code, of the open source type" (art. 10). What the law does do is create the Neuquén Digital Interoperability Ecosystem (EDI) as the network of components that guarantees security, confidentiality, traceability and non-repudiation in the exchange of data, processes and digital services, and that provides legal evidence of each exchange (art. 1). Members are the three provincial branches, their centralized and decentralized entities and public, mixed or private organizations in their digital relationship with the province (art. 3), and the exchange may take place without human intervention between systems, applications, robots, IoT devices and AI algorithms (art. 5, subs. d). The operating principle is that of only once —"once only" in digital-government jargon— and the province stated it thus in that announcement: "every body that is the authentic source of some data may provide it to others that require it", instead of asking the citizen or the company again (it eliminates re-certifications, photocopies and queues). In parallel, Law 3002 (2016) enabled the digital file, document and signature before the three branches; and Decree 2165/2023 established that from 11/01/2023 every provincial Executive procedure is processed exclusively digitally via GDE (physical files in progress had to be digitized). GDE operating figures reported by the province: ~17,000 users, ~12 million documents, ~460,000 files and ~8 million transfers. verif · Nov 1, 2023 ↗

Law 3290: enacted on 06/16/2021, with implementing regulation ordered within 180 days of its promulgation (art. 12; regulated by Decree 123/2023). Exclusively digital GDE (Decree 2165/2023): 11/01/2023. verif · Nov 1, 2023 ↗

Companies and suppliers that process authorizations, permits, licenses and registrations before the provincial State (including the Vaca Muerta satellite ecosystem: service companies, SMEs, logistics providers); the general public; municipalities that connect to the ecosystem. Direct benefit: less re-filing of documentation, a traceable digital file, shorter timeframes. prob · Nov 1, 2023 ↗