E-initiatives in Estonia

Mart LaanpereTallinn University

Centre for Educational Technology

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

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.

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,

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

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

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%)

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