The unit to be created at the joint ministry will make public services more client-centred.
“Many people likely have negative experiences with inefficient public services: long queues at the service centres of public offices, inadequate public transport timetables, or being sent from one office to...
The cost of organising the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union turned out to be 10.7 million euros lower than initially planned.
“Today, we can say that organising the Presidency cost 68.1 million euros and compared to the original budget, a sum of 10.7 million euros was saved...
The Government Office and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications will launch a cross-sectoral project to analyse and prepare the implementation of artificial intelligences, or so-called kratts, as well as develop a test environment in Estonia.
The expert group to be created will...
A pan-ministerial expert group comprising entrepreneurs and their representative organisations will be created to coordinate the statistical transfers of renewable energy. The group will be led by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the Government Office.
The expert group will...
At today’s cabinet meeting, the government approved the civil protection concept, which will set out central activities to protect the lives and health of people in cases of both civilian and military threats. The new approach emphasises the importance of preparedness for crises and people are...
As instructed by the Strategy Unit of the Government Office, the independent expert group on self-driving vehicles examined the study on the entry of self-driving vehicles into Estonia’s transportation system and found that the adoption of innovative transportation technology could create the...
Estonia now has a monitoring system for sustainable development goals, which complies with the global goals of the United Nations.
“The Commission had so far monitored sustainable development only in the context of Estonia. Today, we are increasingly closer to the point where it is no longer...
In order to provide more citizen-centred public services, an innovation lab will be created at the joint ministry, officials will be taught practical skills to use service design tools, and companies will be included in solving societal problems – all this at the suggestion of the public sector and...
A working group was assembled today at the Government Office to devise a plan by March next year for Estonia's participation in the EU’s statistical transfers of renewable energy in the future.
According to the Renewable Energy Directive adopted in 2009, by 2020, 20% of the energy consumed in the...
Helsinki, 14 July 2017 – Today, Secretary of State of the Republic of Estonia Heiki Loot together with the representatives of Norway and Spain signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki. With that, Estonia became a founding...