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The first part of the Estonian Foreign Ministry’s development aid project for introducing the Palestinian National Authority to Estonia’s experiences in developing e-government ended earlier this week. Within the framework of the first part of the project, an expert group from the Estonian e-Governance Academy spent last week in Palestine to get an overview of the how Palestine’s new e-government is developing and to establish future forms of co-operation.

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Estonia has finished, this week, the first part of its development aid project, aimed at introducing to the Palestinian Autonomy Estonia’s experiences in developing e-Government.

In the framework of the first phase of the project, Estonian e-Government Academy’s expert group stayed in Palestine last week in order to get an overview of the stage in which Palestine is implementing the e-Government projects and to specify forms for future co-operation.

Read more: Estonia Developing E-Government for Palestine

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Minister of social affairs of Estonia Hanno Pevkur signed the decree, allocating 16.7 million kroons to developing and administering the Estonian e-health information system, writes the National Broadcasting/LETA.

Pevkur stated that the information system needs to be developed so that it would comply with the high security standards.

Read more: Estonia to allocate 16.7 mln kroons for the e-health information system

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Two years since the world learned of a new form of "cyber-warfare" directed against the small Baltic republic of Estonia, the results are still being felt. But in a twist of history, the onslaught that was supposed to cause permanent damage has instead helped put the country on the map and boosted its high-tech industrial sector.

In April and May 2007 servers based in Russia attacked Estonian Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, apparently in response to an Estonian government decision to relocate a Soviet-era war memorial in Tallinn.

Read more: Two years on, Estonia helps EU prepare its cyber-defences

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Estonia unveiled ambitious plans Friday to get high-speed internet access to every one of the Baltic state's 1.3 million residents by 2015. An agreement reached by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and an industry group - the Association of Estonian Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies - promises to turn the entire country into a super-high speed internet hotspot by means of a project called EstWin.

"If the 19th century was the era of railways, and the 20th century saw the development of electricity grids, the 21st century is the era of development of communications networks," said Economy Minister Juhan Parts.

Read more: Estonia government pledges high speed internet access

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