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.
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.
Read more: Seven in ten Estonian households have internet at home
The dispute is over health certificates issued by general practitioners to the disabled, which are used to get various benefits. The family doctors have said they plan to stop issuing them on August 1, saying that the information already exists in the online health information system.
Read more: EE: Family Doctors, Minister Disagree over E-Health System
According to doctors, the problem is that there are several various documents such as diagnosis, test results, etc. that they need to open and in some cases there are tens or even hundreds of such documents per patient.
EISA (Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet - RIA, in Estonian) was formerly known as the Estonian Informatics Centre (Riigi Infosüsteemide Arenduskeskus - RIA, in Estonian). It has 11 main functions, but the reorganisation affected primarily the two departments dealing with information security.
Read more: EE: A new structure to manage information security and state information systems