E-initiatives in Estonia

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E-initiatives in Estonia

• Mart Laanpere
• Tallinn University
• Centre for Educational Technology

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Roadmap

• Tiger Leap computers to schools
• Village Road Open Internet Acces points,
  Internet to village libraries
• E-government, e-participation
• ID card and E-elections
• E-university, e-vocational school

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Tiger Leap 1997-2000

• Goals ICT infrastucture, teacher training,
  curriculum development, technological support,
  educational software
• Investments 10 MUSD from state budget, 2 MUSD
  Phare ISE programme, 5 MUSD local municipalities,
  etc. (only 0,12 MUSD from local business
  industry)
• Results computers and Internet in all schools,
  65 of all teachers trained, 61 educ. software
  packages purchased and 39 produced, teachers
  portal, etc.

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Tiger Leap 2001, 2006

• Follow-up strategy Tiger Leap Plus
• ICT competencies for all, virtual learning
  environments, sustainable development,
  co-operation
• Current strategy Learning Tiger
• E-learning services, systems and tools, digital
  content (learning object repositories), research,
  curriculum integration,

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Village Road Programme

• Open Internet Acces Points (financed by Open
  Estonia Foundation - Soros)
• Peatee 1998 backbone for public net
• Külatee 1999-2001 state programme to connect all
  municipalities
• Külatee 2 connecting all libraries
• Külatee 3 wireless coverage

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E-government

• National IT policy 1998
• X-road 2001 data exchange layer between
  registries and databases
• Service portals riik.ee, eesti.ee, id.ee
• TOM (www.eesti.ee/tom)
• E-Governace Academy (eGA.ee)
• More info www.ria.ee

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ID card e-election

• By February 2006, ID cards had been issued to 61
  of the population (over 900 000 ID cards)
• Uses authenticantion, digital signature,
  encryption, ID-ticket, e-election
• Local elections 2005 9135 e-votes (almost 2)

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E-university

• EeU 2002 consortium of 6 universities led by
  EITSA (see www.e-uni.ee), copied from
  Virtuaaliyliopisto -)
• Production of e-courses, staff development,
  research
• eVoc 2005 consortium of 36 vocational schools
  and applied colleges