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.

Proud Engineers is an Estonian private company established in 2016 to help governments and large corporations solve complicated transformation challenges and build inspiring digital futures.

Proud Engineers’ experts have cutting-edge knowledge of digital transformation,  having steered and been involved in creation of the Digital Agenda 2020 for Estonia; Cybersecurity Strategy 2014-2017, 2019-2022; Cloud Policy of Estonia (including Data Embassies);

Our experts have led policy and regulatory reforms that have supported the transformation (eID, electronic signature, cybersecurity, interoperability, privacy protection etc).

Some recent experience to be shared on the topic of building identity frameworks (in legal, technical and organizational aspects):

• In India, the team works with a telecom to develop a range of product offerings fitting into the general framework of Digital India strategy,  including electronic identity, electronic signature, privacy-driven data market, consent-based data access and data portability. The experts have designed and participated in the development of electronic identity and electronic signature products being deployed in the field. Both of these leverage existing legal and process frameworks while providing Indian citizens with unprecedented levels of assurance in their daily electronic transactions.

• For the International Committee of the Red Cross, the team conducted analysis of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) identification schemes. These enabled the Red Cross to obtain the identification system best suited to their needs for identification schemes, systems, trust services and related technologies that allow secure identification and authentication.

Proud Engineers is currently involved in the legal assesment of the eID for Egypt.

Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (officially abbreviated as ITL) is a voluntary organisation, whose primary objective is to unite the Estonian information technology and telecommunications companies and organisations, to promote their co-operation in Estonia’s development towards information society, to represent and protect the interests of its member companies and to express their common positions.  The turnover of companies belonging to ITL makes up over 70% of the total turnover of the Estonian ICT sector.

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.

Information System Authority is a governmental agency which manages secure data exchange (X-Road, document exchange) between institutions, an overview of state information systems and data (RIHA), the use of electronic identity, the functioning and protection of the state broadband network, organisation of e-elections, the activities of the State Portal eesti.ee, and the work of the ID card help centre.

The Information System Authority (RIA) also coordinates the development and administration of information systems ensuring the interoperability of the state’s information system, organises activities related to information security, and handles security incidents in Estonian computer networks.

Information System Authority is within the administrative area of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

It is a well-known fact that the real benefits from the use of ICTs come not from simple automatization of the existing processes but from changing these processes and reinventing service delivery in the information society. The e-Governance Academy in Estonia has compiled the change management lessons learned from Estonia and elsewhere and, as a result, developed the change management framework. The framework serves as a guiding tool for changing management tasks in government and society digitalization.

Nortal is a multinational strategic change and technology company. Combining the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader and creating change in businesses with a strategic approach and data-driven technology, Nortal’s vision is to build a seamless society. Nortal partners with governments to bolster business through intelligent public administration. Nortal has planned and implemented over 40% of Estonia’s digital disruption, including in the domains of e-Tax, Cybersecurity, e-Healthcare etc. We have unique experience building a digital, seamless society. Nortal has successfully exported its expertise to countries in North-America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Estonia has by far the most advanced national ID card system in the world. Much more than a legal photo ID, the mandatory national card also provides digital access to all of Estonia’s secure e-services. In cooperation of SK ID Solutions and Cybernetica the so-called Smart ID was developed. Smart-ID is an app based new generation electronic identity designed to use conveniently on smart devices, while still keeping high level of security.

Meeting with Daniel Schaer, Ambassador-at-Large and Special Diplomatic Representative.

Digital Nation is a digital change advisory originating from Estonia and on a mission to build future-ready societies around the world. We merge world-known Estonian expertise & global best practices with your highest ambitions. Our clients are governments and organisations who are keen to change their digital game. We co-create, guide, and deliver from inspiring visions to practical strategies to their effective and rapid delivery. The founder of Digital Nation is the former CIO of Estonian Government.

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.