1. Estonian ICT
October, 2009

2. Information society indicators
100% of schools and government organisations have broadband connection
98% of companies with 10+ employees use Internet
56% of families have computer at home
52% of homes have broadband connection
98% of bank transfers are performed electronically
91% of income tax declarations are made via the e-Tax Board
Mobile penetration 124%
Four operational 3G networks
1164 free WiFi areas
Source: Estonian Ministry of Economical Affairs

3. ID cards 1,076,059 active ID cards 21,233,351 digital signatures given
35,516,819 electronic authentications made
ID ticket system used currently in public transport of Tallinn and Tartu
Over 100 thousand users, more than 1 million ID tickets purchased annually

4. Some achievements 1993: First electronic banking channel – Telehansa
1996: Tiger Leap Foundation to support ICT in schools
2000: Introduction of mobile parking system
2001: Launch the X-Road, a middle-tier data exchange layer enabling government databases to communicate
2001: starts to build 500 Public Internet Access Points
2002: Start of computer usage courses for citizens under project
2002: Introduction of national electronic ID cards

5. Some achievements... cont
2003: Launch of the e-government portal
2003: Launch of ID bus ticket
2003: Launch of e-tax Board
2005: e-voting was introduced
2007: Paliament e-elections
2007: Introduction of m-ID
2007: Launch of e-police
2008: e-health

6. Joining forces – ICT Demo Center

7. Opened January 29th, 2009

8. Goals of the Demo Center
• To introduce Estonian ICT solutions and promote their implementation both in Estonia and worldwide
• To show integration of various e-State solutions with each other and their compatibility with other IT solutions
• To establish an environment for integration, testing and productizing various IT solutions
• Joint marketing of Estonian ICT solutions worldwide

9. ICT Democenter principles
INTEGRATION All solutions presented in democenter must be integrated in order to show unified IT environment of company/state/municipality/family etc. OPENNESS All IT companies (inc. International players) are welcome to join democenter JOINT USAGE All joined partners have free access to demo center to demonstrate solutions to their customers and partners. All democenter solutions are available to other parters for demonstrating their solutions. POSITIVE ATTITUDE Democenter is a cooperation field not competition field! CONTIBUTION All partners contribute to achieve democenter goals (ant their individual goals through democenter)

10. Demo Center Members

11. Partners & Supporters