Projects
eTransformation and eGovernment capacity building support for the Moldovan Government
The main focus of the cooperation program is to transfer Estonian e-government implementation experience to the Moldovan Government. One of the results of the project will be agreed principles of eGovernment organizational setup and technical architecture, taking into account existing situation in eGovernment, planned and on-going development projects, visions about M-Cloud and strategic projects planned by Moldovan government together with international donors and World Bank. Read more...
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2011)
The 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2011) will take place in Tallinn, Estonia during 26 - 28 September, 2011. This year it is expected that the conference will bring together up to 350 practitioners, developers and researchers from government, local municipalities, academia, industry and civil society from appr. 60 countries from all over the World. Read more...
e-Governance Training for Senior Zambian Government Officials
The overall goal of the project is to introduce the Estonian e-government experience to the senior Zambian Government officials.The indirect goal is to support the development of the e-government in Zambia and enhance the cooperation of the experts and business contacts between Zambia and Estonia. Read more...
Use of ICT to enhance public participation in decision making (e-Democracy)
The project is related to the Information Society Action Plan of the Estonian Government where public participation in decision-making using ICT is an important goal. A special program of the EU Structural Fund was introduced to raise awareness of society about opportunities provided by information society. In the framework of this program the public tender was conducted in summer 2010 by the Estonian Informatics Centre to find a partner for the implementation of a variety of e-democracy activities. E-Governance Academy won the competition and as a result 2-year project was launched in September 2010. Read more...
The European Innovation and Technology Agency Assotiations TAFTIE Annual conference
This year's conference "Heaven or Hell: Innovating Cyber Future" took place in Tallinn on the 30th of June.The conference is an annual event of the the European Association of leading national innovation agencies (www.taftie.org). Read more...
Development of X-road in Palestinian Authority – interoperability network for better governance and public services
The goal of the project was to develop documentation and necessary knowledge and skills to implement governmental interoperability network in Palestinian Authority. Read more...
eCitizen II – Towards citizen-centered eGovernment in European cities and regions
e-Governace Academy is external expert for City Government of Tartu in Interreg IVC project „eCitizen II – Towards citizen-centered eGovernment in European cities and regions“. The project is launched at the beginning of January 2010 and leaded by The Baltic Institute of Finland. The role of eGa in the project is to offer overall e-democracy-related expertise, to advise on organization of joint seminars in partner countries and to contribute to writing e-particiaption manual as concrete outcome of the project. Read more...
e-Governance in Tajikistan - Widening Public Access to Information and Government Services
The project aimed to harvest the ICT solutions that are already in place and working in both Estonia and Kazakhstan but also in other countries, and bringing those to the attention of decision-makers in Tajikistan, in particular the ones of the pilot towns of Nurek, Kayrakum, and Rudaki. Read more...
Analysis of online-campaign of Estonian Parliamentary Elections 2011
Altghough elections for Estonian Parliament 2011 are sinking into the past, we think it is the right time to evaluate the last campaign and it´s possible influence. What exactly characterizes this campaign in online-environments and how much attention was paid to social media? – this is analyzed in publication of e-Governance Academy published in May 2011. Read more...
e-Governance Academy hosted e-Government Master students from Technical University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
This was already fifth time when students of e-Gov Master Programm of Technical University of Lausanne were hosted by e-Governance Academy. This year there were students from Zambia, Haiti, Poland, Nepal and St. Kitts and Nevis among the participants. Read more...
Elector’s Compass for Elections of Estonian Parliament 2011
Project „Elector’s Compass for Parlamentary Elections 2011“ was launched in October 2010. The project is funded by Estonian Open Foundation and it’s main goal is to offer possibility to compare everybody’s own standpoints in key issues for political life and society with standpoints of candidate parties. Read more...
Support to the development of ICT in education of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Palestinian Authority based on Estonian experiences
The aim of the project is to enhance the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education management and teaching process that is requested by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoE) of Palestinian Authority (PA). Read more...
Exchanging good practices for the promotion of an active citizenship in the European Union (EPACE)
eGA conducted researches, consulted project partners, drafted and wrote 2 international publications within the framework of the EPACE project. The project seeked to address the challenges related to the decreasing level of political and societal participation of citizens. The main objective was to elaborate and exchange good citizen participation practices in order to increase and promote participatory opportunities within the European Union member states. Read more...
e-Participation in Estonian Local Governments (eKKO)
The general aim of the project was the development of participatory democracy at local level through increase of skills and competences to held a dialogue between local municipalities, civil society organizations and citizens. Read more...
Enhancing e-democracy in Mongolia throuth the introduction of citizen participation initiative
The project was aimed at the delivery of the training course on e-democracy and e-participation, including e-voting in Tallinn, Estonia on May 29 - 31, 2007 for the leaders in public institutions in Mongolia responsible for communication and citizen participation both at central and local level. Read more...
Information and Communication Tehnologies for Development / Experiences in Estonia of e-Governance for Haiti
Despite enormous benefits ICTs can bring into governmental activities, the development of e-governance in some countries has been much slower than in others, including Haiti. In general, developing countries have harder time in devoting resources to utilize new technologies and there are cases when countries are willing to start but lack know-how about how to integrate ICT into development. Read more...
e-Citizens Advocacy
The general aim of the project was the development of local participatory democracy through increase of the skills, competences and motivation of different parties of political process to held an Internet-based dialogue. Read more...
Combining the priorities of the Estonian ODA and UNDP`s e-Governance work in the RBEC region
Enabling citizens initiative to e-Participation (TID+) The aim of this project was the development of an electronic e-participation system that enables citizens to submit ideas, discuss them and vote for them. It all started in June 2001 when the Estonian government launched a public participation portal named “Today I decide” (known under the Estonian acronym “TOM”). The TID+ project is inspired by the experiences with the TOM tool. Read more...