e-Governance Academy
Foundation
March 5, 2005
Tallinn, Estonia
Nele Leosk, Project Manager of E- Governance Academy
About e-Governance Academy
• NGO founded for creation and transfer of
knowledge concerning e-governance (incl. edemocracy)
• Initiated in 2002 by the UNDP, OSI and the
Government of Estonian Republic (Memorandum
of Understanding)
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About e- Governance Academy
• Mission- to train and advise leaders and top civil
servants in using ICT to increase government
efficiency and improve democratic processes
• Efficiency lies in: understanding of post-socialist
transition countries, fluency in Russian, network
of researches, trainers, consultants (local,
international)
• Core staff 6 persons + 30 experts
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Geographical focus
• CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
• Central and Eastern Asia
• Balkan Region
EAST WEST
• In longer terms, while retaining our mission of
knowledge transfer to the East, we want to
become a leading European Union (EU) institution
in the area of e- governance.
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Core Activities
Research
Training
NETWORKING
Consultancy
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eGA Programmes
• Enabling environment for information society
• E-Government
• E-Democracy
For every Program eGA develops content through
the whole value-chain of research, training and
advisory, gathering, developing and providing
know-how, tools and best practices
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Activities 2003
• 6 trainings for 93 persons from 6 countries:
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, etc
• 6 consultancy missions to Moldova, Ukraine,
Slovakia, Uzbekistan, Albania, etc
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Activities 2004 (Training, Study Tours)
Training: 18 different countries, 166 persons:
• Mongolia (2-7 February):
18 participants
• Ukraine (29 March- 2 April):
14 participants
• Tajikistan + Uzbekistan (12-17 April):
17 participants
• Balkans (31 May- 4 June):
18 participants
• Macedonia (14-20 June):
22 participants
• Georgia + Moldova (24- 31 August)
22 +2 participants
• Uzbekistan (25-31 Oct’04)
21 participants
• Kazakhstan (24- 30 Nov’04)
12 participants
• Macedonia + Ukraine (13- 17 Dec’04)
14 +6 participant
Study tours: 2 countries, 9 persons
• Moldova (12-17 January):
4 delegates
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• Kazakhstan (16-20 June):
5 delegates
Activities 2004 (Consultancy
missions)
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Georgia
1. Overall assessment mission
2. Tiger Leap preparation
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Kazakhstan
1. Ust-Kamenogorsk, Monitoring Transparent City projects
2. Workshop on e-Governance during the official visit of Estonian
President
3. Information Society Programme advisory
4. Kyrgyzstan: Curriculum development
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Namibia: Workshop on e-Governance
Macedonia:
– Training of the Trainers (ICT in local governments)
– Gov. IT policy advisory
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Activities 2004 (other projects)
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Public On-line Consultations workshop together with
Knowledge Society Management Institute of Law
University of Lithuania and Hansard Society: 28 people
“I-Law Eurasia 2004 – Emerging Legal and Policy
Issues for the Information Age” 5-day course together
with Berkman Center for Internet and Society at
Harvard Law School: 60 participants
Preparation of Tiger Leap Master Plan (stage 1&2)
Corruption “ICT Toolkit”
FOSS training for Estonian NGOs
Begix (Balanced e-government scorecard
development for local governments)
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Ongoing projects
 Training
5-day long ICT policy course (eGov Best Practices, involvement
of society, private sector)
 Consultancy
Tiger Leap (Georgia)
Transparency (Georgia)
e-Governance at Local Level (Macedonia; Training of Trainers)
 Research
ICT and Corruption
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) comparative study
• Other
e-Democracy seminar (Estonia)
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Activities 2005
• At least 10 training events (Armenia, Georgia, Africa,
Serbia, etc)
• Ongoing projects:
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FOSS NGO follow-up
FOSS study
E-model for local government (UNDP Masedonia)
E- Democracy Course (Estonia)
Online Consultations (Croatia)
• Under development:
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E-visa seminar Annual conference organized
E-services in Almaty (Almaty, EU small projects)
FOSS Summer Academy/policy seminar
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E-parliament in Macedonia (UNDP Macedonia)
Finances
• Initial grant of the academy’s initiators (3 years)
• Funds raised from donor organizations
• Funds raised through co-financing arrangements
• Services provided
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Conclusions
• Multi-stage projects
• Long-term partnerships
• Involvement of the partners (donors) during the
planning stage
• Create socially engaged community
• Ensure the continuity of the relationships
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Thank You!
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