President Ilves said that although he could focus on the darker side of the issue, with Estonia having been the first country to experience a cyber-attack, he would happily talk about the positives, giving his country as an example.
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The country's premier agricultural university finished the first phase of the project in October, and six months after launch, the system is ready for practical use.
The development, with Webmedia as the private sector partner, aims to improve possibilities for veterinarians to exchange information and make treatment more efficient.
The two-year, 179,000 euro project is a joint effort of the University of Tartu and the Riga-based Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital and will involve three hospitals in southern Estonia and one in Latvia.
In the 13 years since European jurisdictions (led by Germany) first started testing internet voting, early hopes - and hype - for the technology have been thoroughly dashed. The UK's experience is typical: i-voting put on indefinite hold after early trials showed it generated little or no extra turnout but posed potentially serious problems.
Parts said that when building up e-state, it is important to observe every state’s peculiarities and create solutions in line with needs.