eGA Trainings

One of the core activities of eGA is to train high level civil servants, NGO leaders and also municipal leaders in developing countries.

Through training, eGA aims to raise awareness concerning the possibilities of ICT and to demonstrate the importance of having a solid national policy and strategy in the development towards an information society.

Based on a critical analysis of the Estonian experience, we offer insight in how the use of ICT can have a meaningful and beneficial impact on everyday life and can realize a boost in a country’s overall development and competitiveness. The training programmes and the trainers involved are constantly evaluated and updated.

Participants can choose between:

• 5-day introductory policy courses
• tailor-made training programmes on specific subjects, or customised taking into account a specific national setting (specified on e-voting, e-democracy, education, local government level services etc.)
  All courses include study tours and visits, during which on site trainings can be provided
• NEW! 4-day training about land management and GIS

For those seeking an overview of the main e-governance policy topics, eGA offers two 5-day introductory policy course:
-  The course titled “eGov Best Practices Training for Public Sector leaders” covers about 20 subjects, which disclose and describe in detail the experience and results accumulated by the Estonian government, civil society and the private sector, gained from years of pro-active and conscious implementation of information society policies. In this training, we take a look at various forms of public-private partnership amongst key stakeholders, and we offer an analysis of how the general public can and should be involved.
Special attention is given to the critical importance of political vision and will, to ensure continuity and consistency and a necessary stable environment during the implementation of adopted policies and passed laws.
- The other course, meant for local government officials, offers a similar general overview of the meaning and the different aspects of e-governance, but addresses the specific issues with which local government officials are confronted.

Since 2008, new training has been worked out  - "Land management and GIS in Estonia".
4-day training for specialists and higher officials of target country’s Land-Board Office. The training focuses on presentation of different
digital sytems and solutions, implemented in the field of land planning and managing in Estonia.  During the training,  participants are
given also the general overview of  Estonian ICT policy. The aim of this training is to deepen the knowledge, awareness and skills of
specialists from traget countries  and thereby broaden the ICT-related possibilities, capabilities, efficiency and competitiveness of the
Land Board and its subinstitutions of the target country.

Topics, we can cover during our trainings are as follows:

• Legal framework for ICT regulation. Comparison with other countries
• Formation of ICT Policy. IT policy and development framework in Estonia
• ICT coordination in public sector: Introduction to the framework, basic issues, methods and  organization of ICT coordination in public sector, international cooperation
• ICT Budgeting, forming the ICT budget
• Main ICT development projects in public sector, e-services technologies for public sector
• M-governance: Mobile technologies in the public sector
• Look@World Project - Private initiative to boost internet penetration in Estonia
• A glance at the Estonian tax system, Estonian tax administration online services
• ICT strategic planning & management in theory and practice; National development strategies and ICT; E-citizen - Citizen-centric ICT development strategies for public sector
• Role of ICT in public sector. Estonian and international experience and trends e-government scorecard
• Estonian ID-cards & public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Estonian digital signature – concept and solutions
• Project x-Road (modernization project of the state databases)
• Principles of data services; State registers in Estonia
• E - Democracy (including transparency and e-participation)
• ICT and Education. Tiger Leap (computerization of schools) and other educational projects
• Principles of launching, managing and auditing of public sector IT projects
• E-citizen, IT-services – Practical implementation in the local government
• If you are interested in other topics or have suggestions for new training modules, we will be happy to discuss them with you

In addition, eGA can be called upon to organise study tours, during which on site trainings can be provided. We frequently organise:

• Visits to State Chancellery, to get a first-hand view on Electronic Document Management in Estonia and to see how the Estonian Government
• Session Systems (e-Cabinet) are organised;
• Visits to City Governments, where we take the opportunity to discuss one-stop-government systems and to see them in action;
• Visits to Parliament of the Republic of Estonia, where we discuss e-democracy and e-voting;
• Visits to companies involved in the Estonian development towards an information society, looking at lessons learned from privatisation, public-private partnership and development trends;

Topics, covered during the 4-day training "Land management and GIS"

• Land Reform in Estonia – history, reasons, process
• Legal framework for land relations organization
• Importance, role and essence of Land Cadastre
• Evolution of cadastral units registration process - from paper to digital
• GIS - Datel
• Real Property Restrictions and Restrictions Information System
• Aerophotographing and photogrammetry
• Land Information System
• Web Map Server – Web Based Land Information Publishing and Management Tool for Public Sector Institutions
• Re-use of public information related to land management
• Visits in ELB office: Server room, working place of land registrar, working place of photogrammetry operator, archive
• Examples of digital land management in LGs – visits to Municipality of Jõelähtme
• Agricultural information systems – PRIA

We also encourage individuals to register on our training courses. They can register by sending us some information about the istitution, position, region and the topics they are interested in, so after getting atleast 12 applications from one region and from the same level (central gov. / LG), we calculate the costs per one person and send them information about possible training dates and budget.
In order to register, use our registration form

Information about eGA trainings in Spanish can be found here