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Henn SarvIT Koolitus / IT TrainingLector / Partner

Friday, June 03, 2005

Agenda!

• I have NO Agenda • I have plan to talk You

– About Me– About IT Koolitus– About Estonia– About …

Who I am

• 50 year old• Musical School (piano and flute)• Later everything about matematics and

computers• Different universities (student and teacher)• 5 years in public sector• 10 year as computer trainer (not only computer)

henn@sarv.ee / sarviktaat@hotmail.com

IT Koolitus

• 10 year old

• Microsoft Gold Partner (only TTC in Baltics)

• Other partnerships

• Some numbers– 5 classrooms, 10 trainers, 11K trainees

– Best TTC in world

Estonia

• Most beutiful country in world

• 1,5M citizens

• Very strange language!

• Some historical points (IT view)

Something Special!

ID Card – key into IT world

• Issued since 2002 by state

• Today near to 800K issued

• Second round (cert valid for 3 years)

• $10

• Smartcard

• 2 certificates and key pairs

• NO DEPOSITED – only on card!

ID Card – why

• Discussion about free / mandatory

• E-identification (passport)

• E-key to future– No services at beginning– No idea about usings at beginning– Only Vision – very good Vision

ID-Card today

Banking

• All banks are i-banks

• 2 of them using ID-card

• Short demo

• NOT ONLY TRANSACTION!

• CONTRACTS incl LOANs

E-state / E-services

• Access to info through internet– I’ll show

• Access to services through internet

• Paperless government!

Taxes & death!

• Short about tax system– No figures but principes

• How we declare taxes– Info is there– Taxes is there– Declaration is there

– Mony back quickly – motivation

Some free services

• Digital signature– I’ll show!

• Document encryption– I’ll show

Diverse

• Digital diverse– People having no acces …

• ID diverse– People having no ID

Accessibility

• Internet at workplace

• Internet at public places– Some examples– I have to compare WiFi in EE and WiFi in US

• Internet at home– DSL is going to be a standard, WiFi at Home

• (free) municipal internet (typically wireless)

Internet and politics

• Internet as human right ?

• Internet as political slogan

• Internet as political problem

• Internet as political instrument

What is most important?

• Things happens in (my) world?

• Things happens in my country?

• Things happend in my site?

• What I have to access through internet!

E-elections

• Big dispute

Communisphere

• Communication

• Communication!

• More Communication

• MSN, Skype, Voipe, Orkut

Every simple is e-very simple

• Parking– 1902 (SMS) “787AUC TartuB15” to start parking– 1903 call or sms to finish parking

• Buss ticket– 1312*ticketcode*SSC <and confirm>– 1312*1201*35503070211

• Money transfer / payment– 1214*code*dollars*sents <and confirm>– 1214*2777*49*95# (or I have to add my PIN)

Summary

• Estonia is a bit strange country and funny

• Estonia is smart’nd beuty

• Estonia is everywhere (e-verywhere)

• Estonia is ready to every RATIONAL tech

Thänks!

• Q&A – You may have Q I’ll try to A

• Remember my name&e-mail: henn@sarv.ee You are WELCOME

• Thänks a lot of visiting us here in IT Koolitus and in Estonia as well