Welcome to the e-governance Academy! Liia Hänni, edemocracy Program Director

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1 Welcome to the e-governance Academy! Liia Hänni, edemocracy Program Director Presentation Title

2 Who we are Non profit think Initiative of the OSI, UNDP and Estonian Government in 2002 Network-based activity Permanent staff - 18

3 Knowledge sharing based on Estonia s transformation experience from autoritarian rule to democracy harnessing e- government Best international practices of ICT usage for open government Presentation Title

4 Open Government Principles Governments: Increase the availability of information about governmental activities Support civic participation Implement the highest standards of professional integrity throughout our administrations Increase access to new technologies for openness and accountability

5 e-government infrastructure Electronic Identity: Authentication of a user by digital certificate imbedded in the ID card or SIM card Digitalized information: Information systems and databases in all levels of government Formalized exchange: X- road - the connection of government databases by a data exchange service layer

6 e-participation Areas of e-democracy government-to-citizen G2C Citizen-to-goverment C2G Grass-root activisms/social networking Citizen to citizen C2C Political campaigns Online media e-voting

7 Citizen involvement in policy-making OECD Citizens as Partners, 2001

8 Information Society Law

9 Public Information Act (2001) Area of regulation: The conditions of, procedure for and methods of access to public information and the bases for refusal to grant access; restricted public information and the procedure for granting access thereto to the extent not regulated by other Acts; the procedure for the exercise of state supervision over the organization of access to information. Public information is information which is recorded and documented in any manner and on any medium and which is created or obtained upon performance of public duties.

10 Tools for the access to the information Request for information Websites of public institutions (by 2001, 2002) Free access to Internet in public libraries (by 2002) List of obligatory online content Document registers of public institutions Digital databasis (open data) State portal

11 Principles of granting access to information Access to the information shall be ensured for every person in the quickest and easiest manner; Upon granting access to information, the inviolability of private life of persons shall be ensured; Access to the information shall be granted without charge unless payment for the direct expenses relating to the release of the information is prescribed by law; Every person has the right to contest a restriction on access to information if such restriction violates the rights and freedoms of the person.

12 Obligatory online content of public institutions in Estonia some examples Statutes of state or local government agencies formats of petitions and other documents submitted to state and local government agencies and instructions for the completion thereof; job descriptions of state and local government officials; salary rates and the procedure for payment of additional remuneration; information concerning unfilled positions in state or local government agencies; drafts of policy documents and legal acts; lists of the members of political parties;...

13 Oversight authority - Data Protection Inspectorate Presentation Title

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15 CONSULTATION Decision making mechanisms Regulatory framework Civil society development Political and administrative culture e-consultation tools Presentation Title

16 Regulatory framework in Estonia Good Engagement Code of Practice , unofficial 2012 approved by the Government Rules of Procedure of the Government (based on the Government of the Republic Act) Regulation on good practice of preparation of drafts of legal acts Legal policy development strategy 2018, approved by the Parliament on 2011 Presentation Title

17 e-paricipation Portal Discussion of ideas presented by citizens Public consultation on policy documents and draft legislation

18 TOM and TID+ The original TOM tool (since 2000) e-participation portal project Includes an updated TOM system ( TOM version 2 ), amongst other elements TID+ project Builds on the updated TOM system ( TOM version 2 ) and adds functionalities software available in English, adaptable and customisable, open source Tallinn, June 5th,

19 Enabling citizen's initiative to eparticipation The TID+ project developed a tool that can be made available to citizens by public and private bodies and organisations, on a local, national and international level. The tool allows to initiate ideas, to discuss them and to ensure a response. = international, scalable, adaptable, explained Steven Segaert steven@ega.ee Project partly financed by the European Union Tallinn, June 5th,

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21 Processing of ideas Idea Commenting Voting Answering Presentation Title

22 Public consultations Initiated by ministries/state agencies Time period for the consultation established by the iniciator Only registrated users can comment Summary should be presented by the iniciator

23 Single window for the access of the decision making processis

24 COOPERATION Web 2.0 and 3.0 tools social networking Blogs Wikis Mushups web applications Open Data Presentation Title

25 How to advance open decision making? Reform RTI (right to information) laws for digital era Revise decision making processes to ensure transparency and citizen input using ICT Encourage public authorities to interact with citizens using web platforms (websites, social networking,..) Support capacity of the NGOs to interact with government using ICT Initiate an Open Government National Platform to facilitate the Open Goverment Parnership process in the country. Presentation Title

26 Civil society initiatives

27 Voters Compass Elections on March 6, 2011 We must first achieve new economic growth, only then can the state start to improve the welfare of the citizens. Completely agree Completely disagree

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29 A worthy salary for teachers!

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31 Crowdsourcing democracy Presentation Title

32 I-Voting in Estonia Remote Internet voting Based on ID card and public key infrastructure Preceeding hard political and constitutional debates ( ) Succesfully launced 2005 Lot of international interest

33 To vote via Internet you need 1) computer 2) smart card reader 3) internet connection 4) Windows or Linux 5) valid ID card with PIN codes Allikas:

34 Technical solution Envelope method Encrypted vote E-voters Digital signature E-votes Results Public key See general description of the e-voting system: Private key

35 How many people are voting online?

36 Thank you!