e-Estonia Programme for Smart Africa

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.

Aktors develops information systems and other custom software solutions, starting from analysis to the implementation, and offers consulting services related to software development. The have a long experience building e-governance, with examples like X-road and Court Information System.

B.EST Solutions has earned a reputation as a dependable provider of innovative eGovernment and e-Identity solutions. In co-operation with their Business Partners they offer a variety of services and consultancy to support different stages of the development.

The company provides innovative IT solutions to transform public sector in line with digital-era governance, specialising in public fiscal management and tax administration. Their engineers have 20+ years of experience in modernization of tax administrations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. They have custom-made and ready to use solutions for risk assessment and development of tax administrations, ministries of finance, the public sector, and international organisations.

The X-Road is the backbone of e-Estonia and was initiated by the Estonian government to enable secure data exchange between governmental organisations. The first version was developed by Cybernetica and launched in 2001.

X-Road is a distributed information exchange platform that makes it possible for all different systems to communicate all across the governmental sector; for example, the police can access data from the health system, tax board or business registry and vice versa.

It has enabled to increase the depth of cooperation between public organizations and reduced paper work exponentially so that public employees can concentrate on tasks that require human interaction.