A Business Journal for the Information Society


No. 03, 2006

Nationwide Components of Estonia

Estonian government agencies are all responsible for the development and maintenance of their information systems, and they must all keep in mind the general principles of the stateís IT interoperability framework. In order to ensure interoperability and a multilateral approach toward public sector information systems, the public sector assumes responsibility for the development and maintenance of several central and nationwide components of these systems. These include the common single point of entry which is a part of collaboration among state information systems, as well as support systems which refer to agreements among state information systems and the relevant middleware.

Dr Uuno Vallner, head of E-Government Division, Department of State Information Systems, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia