The former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves discusses the benefits of full governmental digitisation in his country with a world-renowned journalist Charlie Rose.   We transcribed the interview below: Charlie Rose If you look at Estonia today, I mean, the government is online. Toomas Hendrik Ilves Well, there are three things you cannot do inread more

As war thunders in Europe, so are threats in cyberspace on the rise. Nations worldwide are ramping up their cyber security capabilities. According to  National Cyber Security Index (NCSI),  Estonia does better in cyber security than most of the world. Estonia’s index 90,91 is 48 percentage points above the world’s average and 17 points betterread more

Tanel Sepp is the Ambassador at Large and Director-General for the Cyber Diplomacy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia. He has been in the Estonian Foreign Service for 19 years – having served from Brussels to Kabul, Washington D.C. to Ethiopia.  In this episode, recorded two days before Russiaread more

The e-Governance Conference 2022, this year reaching its 8th edition, welcomes digital leaders and experts over the three years in Tallinn and online at egovconference.ee. This year the main focus is on the resilience of digital governance in times of crisis and the next step in the path of digitalization – seamlessness. Hannes Astok, Managingread more

These are transformative times for Estonian cyber security companies. For weeks, all eyes in the country have been fixed on the ongoing war in Ukraine, but to listen to Raul Rikk, director of national cyber security for the Estonian government, the threat of cyberattacks has only been growing immensely over the past few years, challengesread more

“Last year will go down in history as the year of security vulnerabilities, wherein in the race against time and criminals, we had to learn some painful lessons. However, all experiences are useful and must be shared,” says Gert Auväärt, Director of the Cyber Security Branch of the Information System Authority (RIA) in the latestread more

We recorded our latest podcast episode just a few days before Russia brutally invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February, and the topic couldn’t have been timelier. Florian Marcus’s guest is  Jaanika Merilo, an evangelist of e-government, head of PR and Communication of Funderbeam, advisor to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraineread more

When Estonia commenced its AI strategy some three years ago, the country had just four public sector projects using AI. As of today that number has grown to 80 projects involving 40 organisations across both the public and private sectors, a trend its AI Task Force would like to continue.  Estonia’s AI Task Force isread more

Join us on March 10 at 3 pm (GMT+2) for the first e-Estonia Digital Discussion of 2022.  We have top global digitalisation experts discussing where their countries and the world is heading in the following years.