15 years after Estonia started to work on e-governnance, time has come for all EU member states, along with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries of Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland to establishes common goals for the development of e-government over the next five years.
“The Tallinn Declaration does not translate into innovation for Estonia, as we have already complied with the guidelines agreed upon today with other European countries,” said the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Urve Palo after the Tallinn Declaration was signed. According to Palo, it is the other EU member states that the Tallinn Declaration will bring about significant changes.
“We came to a common understanding that all European countries need to create opportunities for their citizens and enterprises to use state services digitally and without the need to leave their homes. The deployment of ID cards across Europe is another aim, in order for digital signatures to be provided internationally — me with my Estonian card and my neighbor with their state document. Think about how much time this would save,” added Palo.
Since the ‘Malmö Declaration‘ signed in 2009, progress has been made to modernise public administrations across Europe and deliver cross border eServices, eProcurement and electronic identification (eID). Since 2009 and the launch of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, the EU ministers agreed to will annually present progress on implementation of this declaration through the eGovernment Action Plan Steering Board, calling upon the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU to take stock of the implementation of this declaration in autumn 2018.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Irene Kostaki
Quelle/Source: New Europe, 06.10.2017
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