By Federico Plantera This year’s e-Governance Conference, 8th edition in the series, has come and passed almost in the blink of an eye. As the Executive Director of e-Governance Academy Hannes Astok said, one of the biggest pleasures was definitely to be able to host participants in person again, and literally shake hands with colleagues, partners, […]

UPDATED! It was our pleasure to host you together with 900 participants at the 8th e-Governance Conference in Tallinn and online! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. The videos of all sessions are available for re-watching on the conference website HERE and presentations are available HERE.  The highlights of the conference are summed […]

This year, the e-Governance Academy’s award “Partner of the Year 2022” was forwarded to the the Government of Benin for the high-level political will and contribution to digital transformation and public e-service provision in the country. Mr Hannes Astok, Executive Director of e-Governance Academy, handed the prize over to Mr. Afiss Bileoma, the Director of […]

The President of Estonia Alar Karis emphasized the need to keep resilience and green thinking in mind, addressing international digital leaders at the e-Governance Conference in Tallinn on 11 May 2022. According to President Karis, the examples from Ukraine and Tonga should make governments turn more attention to the resilience of the digital infrastructure in […]

The 8th e-Governance Conference “Resilient and Seamless Governance” will focus on digital governments’ resilience during war and crises to explore the future of public services. The conference will be held in person in Tallinn, Estonia, and online at egovconference.ee on 10–12 May 2022.  The conference will feature digital leaders from Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, […]

The wait could not have been faster. Just one week to go to e-Governance Conference 2022, to discuss resilient and seamless governance with high-level government representatives, experts, and academics. So let us do the honours with an introduction, and a look forward, from Estonia. Luukas Ilves, freshly appointed Chief Information Officer of the Government of […]

Siim Sikkut barely needs any introduction. 17 years in the civil service, of which five as Chief Information Officer of the Government of Estonia. Throughout this time, many of our readers and listeners have had the chance to meet him, or hear from his team about what a constant process of digital transformation looks like. At […]

The seamlessness of the governance is one of the focuses of the e-Governance Conference this year. We welcome you to investigate the seamless options of citizen engagement in policy design and participatory practices. Giovanni Allegretti, senior researcher and coordinator of the PhD “Democracy in the 21st century” at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), has worked for over 20 […]

Switching to digital services is more than digitising paperwork, says Helena Lepp, digitalisation expert at the AU-EU Digital for Development (D4D) Hub: “It is an opportunity for governments to ask critical questions about why, whether, and for whom the service is intended, and most importantly, to put people at the centre of the process.” As African governments progressively […]

  Less than a month to go to the 2022 e-Governance Conference. To mark this countdown milestone, we called back a known voice of the Digital Government Podcast and the Conference, introducing the ever-more-pressing theme of digital sovereignty. Taking the floor is Paul Timmers, a scholar at various European universities and former director at the European […]

Organizing and presenting information, as well as finding it when citizens need, must be up there in governments’ agendas. Not only because we should be able to access it in the most effective and efficient way, but also because the systems where this is stored and listed are often very complex. Perhaps overly complex? Vitaly Friedman is an […]

On 12 May you are welcome to join us in the discussion “Should We Automate Just Because We Can?” led by a distinguished legal expert on digital governance topics Katrin Nyman-Metcalf. As the introduction to the topic we invite you to listen the podcast with her on ethical challenges of fully automated services. In this […]

AI is one of the technologies that influences the public sector service provision and also our expectations towards it. On 11 May join our keynote speaker on AI and data governance Ott Velsberg and explore how are governments approaching the use of artificial intelligence in public service provision for more seamless governance. In the following […]

  The e-Governance Conference 2022, this year reaching its 8th edition, welcomes digital leaders and experts over the three years in Tallinn but also online at egovconference.ee. This year the main focus is on the resilience of digital governance in times of crisis and the next step in the path of digitalization – seamlessness. Hannes Astok, Managing […]

The 8th e-Governance Conference “Resilient and Seamless Governance” focuses on digital governments’ resilience during war and crises, and explores the future trends of digital transformation. The conference will be held in hybrid format on 10–12 May 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia, and online. According to Hannes Astok, the Board Member of the e-Governance Academy, the Conference focuses on the […]

This years e-Governance Conference is held 10-12 May 2022 online and onsite in Tallinn, Estonia. The e-Governance Conference, considered the biggest e-governance event in the international arena, brings together strategists, decision-makers, policy implementers and donors to chart the future course of governance. This year, we will focus on the timeliest topics influenced by the war […]