In Estonia the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications is responsible for the general ICT coordination – more precisely the Department of State Information Systems. The tasks of the department include the coordination of state IT-policy actions and development plans in the field of state administrative information systems (IS):

• state IT budgets,
• IT legislation,
• coordination of IT projects,
• IT audits,
• standardisation,
• IT procurement procedures,
• and international cooperation in the field of state IS.

The Estonian Informatics Centre, which is a subdivision of the ministry, is responsible for

• the coordination and implementation of the development of state registers,
• computer networks and data communication,
• standardisation,
• IT public procurement,
• monitoring Estonian IT situation,
• etc. 

There are also IT councils of ministries and IT councils of counties. In addition, there is the Estonian Informatics Council, which is a government committee of experts and the implementing body in the general coordination of state information policy.  For an overview of Estonia's IT-development history see eupractice.eu's country factsheet