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March 22, 2012
" Today, 98% of Estonians under 35 use the internet regularly and systematically. This, I submit, represents an altogether different population than a generation ago, a population that already demands an altogether different approach from its government.
The first thing to get right is to...
March 15, 2012
It’s rarely when “mafia” actually refers to something positive. However, “Estonian mafia” (or #estonianmafia for Twitter users) has come to describe the entrepreneurial phenomenon stemming from the small country in the Baltics. The term allegedly was coined by the US venture capitalist Dave...
March 15, 2012
By: Keit Kasemets, Strategy Director of the Government Office of Estonia
Estonia is well-known as a small, but innovative country. Values of innovation, openness and transparency are deeply rooted in the Estonian administrative culture; therefore improving public services is not a new issue...
March 15, 2012
By: Kristiina Pennar, Public Relations (NATO CCD COE)
It has become somewhat fashionable to speak about cyber defence and cyber security these days. This is not a wonder really, if you consider the impact the Internet is having on our everyday lives and how the loss of connectivity may seem...
March 15, 2012
eHealth – a term for healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication
mHealth – a term used for the practice of medicine and public health, supported by mobile devices
ECG - electro-cardiogram, i.e. an interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart used by doctors to...
March 15, 2012
Security in the cloud is still a source of fear and uncertainty, which is why many organizations opt for more traditional ways of communication. GuardTime is an Estonian provider of keyless signatures, which prove data validity. By establishing that data has not been tampered with after...
February 3, 2012
According to preliminary data, in the e-census the Personal Questionnaires had been completed on record of 815,467 persons, which is over 62% of the estimated population of Estonia, the Statistics Estonia informs. Final numbers shall be presented on the 6th of February.
Previously, the...
January 31, 2012
The ICT Demo Center, a leading network for marshaling efforts in the IT and communications field in both the private and public sector, turned three this week.
It was on January 29, 2009, that President Toomas Hendrik Ilves opened the centre at Ülemiste City business park. Today it consists of...