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.
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.
Estonia has pledged to assist Greece with e-government projects, in a memorandum of agreement signed between the two nations on September 9. Digital ID card system, digital signature and other e-government projects, already implemented in Estonia, will be adapted for Greece.
Parts said that when building up e-state, it is important to observe every state’s peculiarities and create solutions in line with needs.
The percentage of households with internet connection has increased somewhat every year during the last five years.
Of the country's households 71 percent had internet connection at home and 66 percent had broadband connection, ratios that were respectively three percentage points and two percentage points higher than a year ago.
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