Report: X-Road Sustainability Improvement Study 2
The X-Road Sustainability Improvement Study 2 investigates the following themes:
X-Road technical sustainability.
Environmental sustainability of X-Road ecosystems.
Sustainability by X-Road through SDGs.
NIIS has previously (2021–2023) addressed X-Road sustainability by conducting a study of the environmental impact of X-Road and the possibilities of reducing it (including the Emissions Calculator). In addition, there have been internal investigations for evaluating the sustainability of the X-Road development process and integrating “green” software development principles into X-Road's current development process (2023). Furthermore, a public X-Road Academy course Sustainability in Software Development has been created.
In 2023, a dedicated research project X-Road Sustainability Improvement Study was conducted. The research themes were X-Road software development process environmental impacts evaluation and improvement opportunities discovery, X-Road environmental handprint evaluation, and X-Road carbon footprint measurement in actual operative environments comparing to the X-Road Emissions Calculator estimations.
Grounding on the abovementioned prior works, the planned aims of this study were to investigate the following themes:
X-Road technical sustainability (WP1).
Environmental sustainability of X-Road ecosystems (WP2).
Sustainability by X-Road through SDGs (WP3).
Report: X-Road Sustainability Improvement Study
The X-Road Sustainability Improvement Study investigates the following themes—focusing on the environmental sustainability:
X-Road software development process environmental impacts evaluation and improvement opportunities discovery.
X-Road environmental handprint evaluation.
X-Road carbon footprint measurement in actual operative environments comparing to the X-Road Emissions Calculator estimations.
NIIS has previously (2021–2022) addressed X-Road sustainability by conducting a study of the
environmental impact of X-Road and the possibilities of reducing it (including the Emissions Calculator).
In addition, there have been internal investigations for evaluating the sustainability of the X-Road
development process and integrating green software development principles into X-Road's current
development process (2023). Furthermore, a public X-Road Academy course Sustainability in Software
Development has been created.
Grounding on the abovementioned prior works, the planned aims (in 2022) of this study were to
investigate the following themes—focusing on the environmental sustainability:
X-Road software development process environmental impacts evaluation and improvement opportunities discovery (WP1).
X-Road environmental handprint evaluation (WP2).
X-Road carbon footprint measurement in actual operative environments comparing to the X-Road Emissions Calculator estimations (WP3).