Going digital: Learning from Estonia’s experience in E-Governance and IT on October 21

There is a wide acceptance of Estonia’s lead as a country that has travelled the furthest in adopting E-government and public service delivery, an ecosystem that has recently proven its worth steering through the Covid crisis without disruptions in billing and payments, public services, permits and licensing and social disbursements both for public and private participants, both for vendors and customers. Benefitting from the conducive policy framework, Estonia’s IT industry today punches well above its weight from the size of the country, with world leading developments in digital identity (a key for e-governance), cyber-security, Fintech and IT solutions for the banking sector.

With COVID – 19 accelerating the interest in, and trend towards e-governance, and reflecting on digitalisation as a key priority under the newly approved Strategic and Capital Framework 2021-2025, one of the two back to back webinars, each of one hour, will help to answer the obvious ‘how did they do it?’ question, and how Estonia’s experience and Estonian IT companies expertise can benefit the EBRD’s countries of operation.

Going digital requires both companies and the governments being adequately prepared. Accordingly, the first hour will concentrate on e-governance and digi – security and identity. Estonian E-Governance Academy, a leading e-governance expertise centre who has helped over 130 governments to strengthen their e-governance systems, and has worked with the EBRD in a number of countries, and an IT company, SK, who are experts in digital security and identity.

The second hour on the expertise developed by private sector IT companies in areas most relevant to EBRD: ease of doing business and public sector delivery, cybersecurity, and fintech and banking.

Our sessions:

Session 1 – 09:00-10:00

Session 2 – 10:00-11:00