Transcript Open Government Partnership

eESTONIA
open government in practice
Nele Leosk
3 April, Tunis
Estonia
eEstonia
How to achieve sustainable use of
ICTs to support
open governance?
Balanced e-Governance
e-Factory
e-Energy
e-Parlament
e-Banking
x-Road Center
e-Health
e-School
e-Identity
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
Parential leave benefit claim
Example of so-called complex or
integrated e-service ….
18 data requests between
5 information systems +
calculation = 7 documents in real
life = 3 minutes data input +1
mouse click
Government-Citizen interaction
Principles
• 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
Obligatory content
• Statutes of state or local government agencies
• job descriptions of state and local government
officials;
• salary rates and the procedure for payment of
additional remuneration
• Budget, expenditures etc
• information concerning unfilled positions in state
or local government agencies
• drafts of policy documents and legal acts
• lists of the members of political parties
Tools for accessing information
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Request for information
Websites of public institutions (by 2001, 2002)
Document registers of public institutions
Free access to Internet in public libraries (by
2002)
Request
for information
Open data
• Database Act (1997) integrated into PIA in 2008
1997: This act provides the procedure for the
possession, use and disposal of state and local
government databases...., and for release and use of
their data (incl. raw machine-readable data)
EU Directive on Re-use of Public Sector Information
(2003)
• All-governmental open data portal:
http://opendata.riik.ee/
• Open data green paper
What happened in parallel?
Open policy making
Open policy making – one stop shop
approach
Conclusions
• NOT TECHNOLOGY but stable and well functioning
organizational setup for coordination;
• Management and leadership
• Clear planning mechanism and decision meking process;
• Fixed info-political principles;
• Political commitment
• Capacity (administrations, citizens)
• Awareness
• Decision-making process should be defined more
Precisely
• Dialog with citizens need to be integrated in the
work-flow of civil servants
Thank you
and
welcome to
Estonia
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