1. E-initiatives in Estonia Mart Laanpere Tallinn University Centre for Educational Technology

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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,

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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%)

8. 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