Estonians are pathfinders, who have built an efficient, secure and transparent ecosystem that saves time and money. e-Estonia invites you to follow the digital journey. The initial part introduces and demonstrates the underlying mechanisms involved in digitizing a society, an overview of the main challenges and policies, an understanding of the infrastructure, e-solutions and services.

Rae Parish is a local municipality situated in northern Estonia, near the capital city, Tallinn. It is part of the Harju County and is known for its proximity to Tallinn’s urban area. The population of Rae Parish is around 20,000 people.

Rae parish is committed to providing its residents with efficient and accessible services through digital channels. The website serves as a gateway to a range of e-services designed to simplify interactions with the local government, including topics such has residence, land, construction, education and social support. The digital channel of the parish is also connected to the e-services of the central government for directing users to the right service portal.

SpinTek is the biggest software development partner for the local municipalities in Estonia. Some of the more popular solutions that help municipalities offer better services to citizens and companies include:

• Cemetery management information system Haudi: web-based information system for cemetery management, which preserves and organizes data about the buried and makes it available to people interested in history and to the users of burial places.

• Pet Register LLR: the only nationwide web-based pet register in Estonia that’s in accordance with the law and fulfils the needs and the requirements of local municipalities. Pet Registry incorporates every pet related party into one infosystem: the local municipalities, veterinarians, shelters and pet owners. Register also contains a Shelter module, which is specially developed to help shelters keep track of their captured animals.

• Excavation and road closure permit information system OPIS: web-based information system for electronic application, processing, issuing and publishing of excavation permits, and temporary road closure permits within a local municipality.

eKool is a school management tool bringing together pupils and their families, schools and supervisory bodies. eKool supports better learning for the pupil, parents are better aware of their children’s progress and the authorities have a good overview of what goes on in schools under their management.

Opiq is Star Cloud’s learning management environment used in the majority of Estonian basic and upper secondary schools, which contains textbooks, learning kits, study journal, self-assessment system and other important information to be used by teachers, students and parents. The directory of materials is constantly updated. This is a web app, which the customer sells as a model software service. Besides a PC and tablet, the application can also be used on smartphones and needs no separate app.

This is an app based digital platform which enables local municipalities to share news, collect feedback and engage with local residents in an interactive and convenient way. This solution is currently used in 5 municipalities in Estonia and 13 in Finland to build a more transparent civil society.

VeeRa is a tool for creating and managing budgets. All parties from a municipality mayor to a school principal can now simultaneously work with budgets regardless of their location, the device and the software they use!

VeeRa financial planning and budgeting software makes it possible to add comments and adjustments to all entries – it makes communication clear and changes traceable – all in one application!

Estonia’s nation-wide digital twin, developed in cooperation between public and private sector, will gather data and visualise real-life situations so accurately that, in the future, we will be able to test and work on constructions projects in virtual reality, before putting them into action in real life. And there is certainly much more that the digital twin can achieve.

You can find the 3D twin here: https://3d.maaamet.ee/kaart/

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