1. To E or not to E? Estonian answer is - TO E! Brief glance to Estonian hight-tech profile and information society

4. Estonia: integrating into Northern Europe  75% of FDI  45% of trade –80% with EU  Clusters & Linkages Timber Engineering Electronics Financial services Telecom

6. Estonia: a Great Test Market for New Technologies  well-educated population;  willing to adopt new technologies;  availability of high quality broadband infrastructure;  close to two TOP hubs in digital engineering 1) Stockholm-Kista (Wireless Valley), Sweden; 2) Helsinki, Finland;  attractive operational costs –

8. Information society indicators  Mobile phones penetration - 98%  Home PC penetration - 76%  Home Internet penetration - 58%  Business Online - 92%  Schools Online - 100%  Government Online - 100% Achieved in 10 years with investment per capita 5 times below European average

9. E-readiness of economies Source www.mcconnellinternational.com

10. Technology based Employment based Knowledge based Vision on Estonia Cost Expensivemedium Cheap ESTONIA ?2020? Sweden Hungary Czhech Russia Latvia China Value added ESTONIA Finland

12. Forming e-generation - Tiger Leap  Initiated in 1996 with aim to connect all schools with Internet and e-learning  All school graduates in Estonia are fluent in IT and Internet since 2000  Changed radically education landscape  Experience and model transferred to number of countries, eg. Georgia, Mozambique, Albania, Bulgaria

14. Role of ICT in the success of Estonia  Large-scale ICT-related initiatives have found a fertile ground in Estonian society  Results from these projects have shaped the society ...and the demand cycle starts again  How this cycle was ignited? –“Generation shift” among decisionmakers, new opinion leaders –Easy acceptance of new technologies among population –No legacy systems, modern communication infrastructure

16. Knowledge–based Estonia Estonian Strategy for Research & Development 2002-2006 & 2007-2013 Objectives –Updating the knowledge pool –Increasing the competitiveness of enterprises Three key areas –User friendly information technologies  to ensure access to information and opportunities for its use in everyday life for everyone and to encourage the development of IT applications in enterprises –Biomedicine  to encourage the unification of clinical medicine and molecular biology research and to develop enterprises in the biotech field –Material technologies  To encourage the use of new materials and equipment, and the development of related applied research and enterprise based on materials technologies.

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18. E-Business climate  All banks are e-banks –98% of all transactions are made over Internet  All tax and customs duties in Internet –E-tax declaration since 1998, average time per private declaration 3 minutes –All business and customs relations online asince 2002  All communication with government online - e-mail and electronic documents are valid even for court

20. Product Development and services in ICT cluster  JOT Automation (FIN) –industrial robots  Elcoteq (FIN) –New Product Introduction Center  Ericsson (SWE) –3G software  Aqris Software (SWI) –Software based on Java technology  Artec Design (EST) –Chip design and prototypes  Skype –P2P telephony software  FusionOne –Mobile applications  SEB IT Partners (SWE) –IT services for SEB banking group  IBM (USA) –Help desk (server) for Finnsih/Swedish market  Hilton Reservations Worldwide (USA) –Call center –bookkeeping

22. High-tech parks in Estonia  Location and partnerships with Estonian and international Universities and innovation support organizations  Expanding their portfolio of activities from 2003 into new  Most high-tech spin-offs born in 2 high-tech parks

24. Tartu University Institute of Technology  Material and Chemical Technology –Synthesis of acetogenin analogs, antibacterial and antiviral agents  Biomedical Technology –Antibiotics, Environmental Microbiology, Virology  Environmental Technology  Information Technology  Spin-offs in fields of probiotic bacteria development for food industry, gene technology and non-invasive medical diagnostics

25. Tallinn Technology Park - TEHNOPOL  Innovation incubator and support services facilitator  Closely connected with Tallinn technical University and biggest research labs in Estonia

26. Skype - developed in Estonia  Free Internet Telephony  Over 500 million downloads  Development Team based in Estonia, Tallinn

28. National ID-card - secure e-infrastructure  Started in 1999, launched in April 2002  ID card is a primary identification document  Carries digital signature  60 000 cards issued in 6 months, reached highest penetration worldwide in 2005, over 900.000 cards issued (population 1,4 million)

30. Mobile phone based services  Mobile parking since 2000 –Over 50% of parking revenue made with phones  Mobile positioning since 2000 –The first positioning project for society (E112) –By today tens of mobile positioning services  M-payments - SIM cards are connected to debit cards

31. Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet, United Nations and former UNDP Administrator “If Internet would reborn as a country we would call it Estonia”

32. Enterprise Estonia www.eas.ee Largest state institution providing assistance to companies in Estonia Foreign Representations: St.Petersburg, Moscow, Hamburg, Helsinki, London, Stockholm Implementing agency for the EU Structural Funds in Estonia business and regional development support programmes) Business support services –FDI & Trade promotion www.investinestonia.com –Tourism promotion www.visitestonia.com –Financial Support Programs:  Start-up  Infrastructure development  Employee training  R&D  Tourism development  Business Consultation