Republic of Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Our Activities
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Awareness and capacity-building at the "Digital State Academy"
The courses of the Digital State Academy (Digiriigi Akadeemia) are available free of charge and are intended for all those interested in learning more about the Estonian digital state and its development experience. It takes about 45 minutes to complete one course, but it is also possible to complete the course in shorter modules, continuing the course from a place that has not been completed at the appropriate time. Website: https://digiriigiakadeemia.ee/
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Access and vizualisation of Open Data
The Estonian Open Data Portal gives everyone the opportunity to consume and visualize open data, it includes usage stories that are based on open data. Website: https://avaandmed.eesti.ee/
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Promotion and development of AI DPG
Estonia is generating improved solutions through the synergy of data and artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI solutions have been implemented in the public sector of Estonia around 120 times. Around 60 public authorities have implemented projects with an AI component to improve the efficiency of their work. Examples include: speech recognition; environment for procuring translations; email classification provider; anonymiser; spelling corrector; machine translation; open source language models adaptor, etc. Technological solutions have also been created for, e.g. data processing consent management. The website https://www.kratid.ee/en contains different materials that offer a comprehensive overview of all things related to data and artificial intelligence in the public sector of Estonia.
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Co-lead, development and implementation of GovStack
GovStack's open-source community is leading the world in establishing the global toolkit for the digitalisation of public sectori infrastructure. This initiative aims to build a common understanding and technical practice on fundamental reusable and interoperable digital components for e-government services. \- GovStack supports governments by offering a blueprint of a digital service landscape and sharing elements from Building Blocks to Use Cases. \- GocStack Sandbox provides an open demonstration environment for developers to learn about and test the building block approach (GovTest). \- GovStack collaborates to provide capacity building, training, and support designing digital transformation journeys (GovLearv). \- The GovMarket connects participants of the eGoverment market. It bridges the gap between governments and software or service providers based on a common reference – the GovSpecs. New specs under development include eID and Wallet.
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More information on the building block are here: https://govstack.gitbook.io/specification
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Development, management and sustainability of global DPG, including "X-Road"
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) ensures the development and strategic management of digital government solutions that allow NIIS members to provide excellent digital public services. NIIS is both a network and cooperation platform and executioner of IT developments in members’ common interests. The institute focuses on practical collaboration, sharing of experience and promoting innovation. The operating model of the institute is something unique in the world. The republics of Estonia, Finland and Iceland are members of NIIS, and Ukraine, the Faroe Islands, and the Government of Åland are partners of NIIS. Main activities include X-Road data exchange layer and Harmony eDelivery Access. Website: https://www.niis.org/
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X-tee software is already DPG.
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Open source "Digital Government Code Repository"
Estonian government is providing "Digital Government Code Repository" ("Koodivaramu") where the source codes of different digital services developed for the government are openly available. The aim of the initiative is driven by the re-use principle, so as to avoid the need to build everything from scratch. The effort is also enhancing public-private cooperation as well as further development of the e-state. Website:[ https://koodivaramu.eesti.ee/explore/projects](https://koodivaramu.eesti.ee/explore/projects)
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