Cybersecurity and e-governance
Digitisation of government services is a powerful tool for improving governance transparency, reducing corruption, enabling more efficient resource use, and contributing to greater social inclusion and active citizenship.
Estonia aims to support our partner countries as they create robust digital ecosystems that support innovation, growth and citizens’ security in a digital world. Our solutions are accompanied by basic training in e-governance design principles that incorporate human rights, privacy, citizen-centric data management, and privacy and cyber resilience.
Priority topics
Strengthening human-centred digital service delivery by sharing e-governance best practices and initiating the accompanying reforms, strengthening private and public sector cooperation, empowering relevant umbrella organisations, and advising on and supporting the deployment of e-solutions and AI solutions and related training.
Developing digital skills in the general population, including increasing digital literacy and data management skills and raising awareness of digital threats.
Building societal cyber resilience by implementing cyber security frameworks, improving cyber incident response and cyber expert capabilities, promoting international networking and cyber resilience training and raising awareness of cyber security issues.
Working with international partners to develop and strengthen frameworks that embody European values (GovStack, Tallinn Mechanism, etc.).
Regional priorities
EU Eastern Neighbourhood
Ukraine - Estonia is working on large-scale digitisation by supporting the development of digital infrastructure and increasing the country’s cyber resilience and the digital skills of different target groups. We are the Estonian partner for implementing Tallinn Mechanism projects. Our objective is to leverage the support of donor countries and strengthen Ukraine’s systemic preparedness and resilience to cyber-attacks.
Moldova - We support the development of government e-services, increasing the country’s cyber resilience and building the digital skills of different target groups. Our main focus will be growing the country’s tech hub and raising cybersecurity awareness, ensuring a tech-savvy future.
Armenia - We promote digitising government services, increasing the country’s cyber resilience and building the digital skills of different target groups.
Africa
Kenya, Botswana and Namibia - Together with our partners, we are increasing cyber resilience and building the digital skills of different target groups while working on digitising government services. This includes support for developing digital infrastructure and human-centric e-services, deploying digital skills to all target groups, and improving cyber resilience and cybersecurity awareness.
Uganda - Estonia can support the digitisation of the public sector and take steps to mitigate risks to minority rights if joint European initiatives emerge. Together with development cooperation partners, we support reducing the digital divide in socially vulnerable groups.
Partners
We are actively participating in joint European initiatives (Team Europe Initiative), twinning projects and other programmes that support our priorities in the field of e-governance and cybersecurity and where we see the involvement of the Estonian public or private sector in development cooperation as an opportunity to achieve SDGs and lay the foundation for more sustainable relationships.
GovStack
The GovStack initiative aims to help countries improve e-government practices by creating a shared understanding of technical requirements for key reusable and interoperable digital components that can be implemented in any public sector domain. We are actively developing the GovStack brand and its global reputation, creating components with European values in cooperation with Estonian experts and partnering in the practical implementation of GovStack components in development cooperation.
