GWS-X Summary

The Government Web Services Exchange (GWS-Xchange) provides an infrastructure for connecting government agencies together and also provides a gateway for connecting government agencies with the private sector organizations using the web services technology. Web Services enable the agencies’ ability for more efficient data and services sharing by connecting and providing access to the different government agencies systems in real-time. By making available information or services via Web Services, the end result would be citizens making use of richer services via their preferred access point thus creating a truly customer-centric experience.

GWS-X is a technical web services platform that allows government agencies to rapidly develop, deploy, publish and consume web services for use by other government agencies and/or private sector organizations. In a nut shell, GWS-X serves the following purposes:

1. It allows government agencies to centrally publish their web services’ information in a the central Web Services Directory that facilitates ease of searching government web services;
2. It provides web services brokering facilities that enable other government agencies and private sector organizations to consume web services published in the GWS-X. The main role of GWS-X, as a trusted service broker for government web services, is to act as a secure intermediary to route requests from Service Consumer to the Service Provider’s web service. Web services that are published through GWS-X can be consumed by e-services or applications within the public sector) or consumed by e-services or applications from the private sector.

How do I Get Started?

You can first search for your desired Web Service from the GWS-X Web Services directory using the above button Search for Web Services Now. Then, please contact the government agency for more details on how to register and consume its Web Services via GWS-X. If your desired Web Service is not listed, you may contact the agency to check on its plans to make available the Web Service, if any.

Once you have registered successfully with the government agency concerned to consume its Web Services, you can now Sign-up with GWS-X for an user account to login to GWS-X Service Administration Console to start consuming the Web Services.