eGovernance Academy Foundation March 5, 2005 Tallinn, Estonia

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e-Governance Academy FoundationMarch 5,
2005Tallinn, Estonia
Nele Leosk, Project Manager of E- Governance
Academy
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About e-Governance Academy

• NGO founded for creation and transfer of
  knowledge concerning e-governance (incl.
  e-democracy)
• Initiated in 2002 by the UNDP, OSI and the
  Government of Estonian Republic (Memorandum of
  Understanding)

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About e- Governance Academy

• Mission- to train and advise leaders and top
  civil servants in using ICT to increase
  government efficiency and improve democratic
  processes
• Efficiency lies in understanding of
  post-socialist transition countries, fluency in
  Russian, network of researches, trainers,
  consultants (local, international)
• Core staff 6 persons 30 experts

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Geographical focus

• CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
• Central and Eastern Asia
• Balkan Region
• EAST WEST
• In longer terms, while retaining our mission of
  knowledge transfer to the East, we want to become
  a leading European Union (EU) institution in the
  area of e- governance.

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Core Activities
NETWORKING
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eGA Programmes

• Enabling environment for information society
• E-Government
• E-Democracy
• For every Program eGA develops content through
  the whole value-chain of research, training and
  advisory, gathering, developing and providing
  know-how, tools and best practices

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Activities 2003

• 6 trainings for 93 persons from 6 countries
  Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, etc
• 6 consultancy missions to Moldova, Ukraine,
  Slovakia, Uzbekistan, Albania, etc

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Activities 2004 (Training, Study Tours)

• Training 18 different countries, 166 persons
• Mongolia (2-7 February) 18 participants
• Ukraine (29 March- 2 April) 14
  participants
• Tajikistan Uzbekistan (12-17 April)
  17 participants
• Balkans (31 May- 4 June) 18 participants
• Macedonia (14-20 June) 22 participants
• Georgia Moldova (24- 31 August) 22
  2 participants
• Uzbekistan (25-31 Oct04) 21 participants
• Kazakhstan (24- 30 Nov04) 12
  participants
• Macedonia Ukraine (13- 17 Dec04)
  14 6 participant
• Study tours 2 countries, 9 persons
• Moldova (12-17 January) 4 delegates
• Kazakhstan (16-20 June) 5 delegates

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Activities 2004 (Consultancy missions)

• Georgia
• 1. Overall assessment mission
• 2. Tiger Leap preparation
• Kazakhstan
• Ust-Kamenogorsk, Monitoring Transparent City
  projects
• Workshop on e-Governance during the official
  visit of Estonian President
• Information Society Programme advisory
• Kyrgyzstan Curriculum development
• Namibia Workshop on e-Governance
• Macedonia
• Training of the Trainers (ICT in local
  governments)
• Gov. IT policy advisory

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Activities 2004 (other projects)

• Public On-line Consultations workshop together
  with Knowledge Society Management Institute of
  Law University of Lithuania and Hansard Society
  28 people
• I-Law Eurasia 2004 Emerging Legal and Policy
  Issues for the Information Age 5-day course
  together with Berkman Center for Internet and
  Society at Harvard Law School 60 participants
• Preparation of Tiger Leap Master Plan (stage 12)
• Corruption ICT Toolkit
• FOSS training for Estonian NGOs
• Begix (Balanced e-government scorecard
  development for local governments)

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Ongoing projects

• Training
• 5-day long ICT policy course (eGov Best
  Practices, involvement of society, private
  sector)
• Consultancy
• Tiger Leap (Georgia)
• Transparency (Georgia)
• e-Governance at Local Level (Macedonia Training
  of Trainers)
• Research
• ICT and Corruption
• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) comparative
  study
• Other
• e-Democracy seminar (Estonia)

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Activities 2005

• At least 10 training events (Armenia, Georgia,
  Africa, Serbia, etc)
• Ongoing projects
• FOSS NGO follow-up
• FOSS study
• E-model for local government (UNDP Masedonia)
• E- Democracy Course (Estonia)
• Online Consultations (Croatia)
• Under development
• E-visa seminar Annual conference organized
• E-services in Almaty (Almaty, EU small projects)
• FOSS Summer Academy/policy seminar
• E-parliament in Macedonia (UNDP Macedonia)

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Finances

• Initial grant of the academys initiators (3
  years)
• Funds raised from donor organizations
• Funds raised through co-financing arrangements
• Services provided

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Conclusions

• Multi-stage projects
• Long-term partnerships
• Involvement of the partners (donors) during the
  planning stage
• Create socially engaged community
• Ensure the continuity of the relationships

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Thank You!