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09.04.2018|Government Office
An innovation unit to be created at the joint ministry
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...
06.04.2018|Government Office
Estonian Presidency was roughly 11 million euros cheaper than expected
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...
27.03.2018|Government Office
Estonia will have an artificial intelligence strategy
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...
27.03.2018|Government Office
Estonian statistical transfers of renewable energy will be coordinated by an expert group
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...
15.02.2018|Government Office
The government approved a comprehensive approach towards developing civil protection
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...
15.02.2018|Government Office
Final report: self-driving vehicles on Estonian roads may signal the end of traffic deaths
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...
21.12.2017|Government Office
Commission for Sustainable Development approved Estonia’s indicators of sustainable development
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...
24.11.2017|Government Office
Task force recommends including more companies in solving societal problems
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...
31.10.2017|Government Office
Working group assembled for participating in statistical transfers in renewable energy trade
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...
14.07.2017|Government Office
Estonia becomes a founding member of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
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...