eGA to continue cooperation with Cayman Islands
Expert group from Cayman Islands, headed by Mr Ian Tibbetts, the Director of e-Government met Estonian colleagues in October 10 – 15 to start with more concrete actions for developing the e-government in Cayman Islands. The visit to Estonia followed to last year´s mission of Estonian experts to Cayman Islands to introduce our digital solutions.
The goal of the cooperation is to digitize the government systems and to consult on development of the interoperability framework.
The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory near Cuba and Panama. The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands. Its population is approximately 60,000. The territory is often considered a major world offshore financial heaven.
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eGA published an overview of Year 2015 activities and highlights
Yearbook of eGA gives an overview of activities and highlights of the last year. There are exposed eGA’s most important achievements and projects in different areas of activities.
The scope and geographic reach of e-Governance Academy (eGA) activities expanded considerably in 2015. In summary: in 2015 we operated in 26 countries, organised 18 training sessions with a total of 214 participants and delivered 434 hours of training.
As the volume of operations grew, we recruited five new members of staff. eGA employed a total of 24 people as of the end of 2015. The increased volume of operations has also reflected in eGA ‘s sales turnover. The sales for 2015 were 2,582,674 euros and the profit was 209,863 euros.
The Yearbook 2015 is composed by Anu Vahtra-Hellat, translated by Luisa Tõlkebüroo OÜ and Triin Rast, photos were made by Raigo Pajula, Egert Kamenik, Terje Lepp, Anu Vahtra-Hellat, Schutterstock, Oliver Väärtnõu, Marit Lani, Martin Lään and Hannes Astok, and designed by Erkki Pung (Sviiter Creative Agency).
The composing and designing of the publication is financed by the National Foundation of Civil Society in the framework of an open call for proposals on raising NGO’s operational capacity.