8. Internet in public administration agencies

 

8.1. Internet information resources in PAAs

Uuno Vallner

State Chancellery

Public administration agencies have started to increasingly use the Internet/Extranet/Intranet technologies. As a rule, every agency installs its own server. This is not bad but puts an ordinary user into a difficult situation: he should know all the places services could be obtained from. To avoid that, an information server embracing all public administration systems or at least an introductory server has been installed in most countries. It is especially difficult for those outside Estonia to obtain any information on Estonia. Hopefully the government will regulate these activities in the near future, including purchasing a separate external channel for the state administration system. After that, the issues related to the combining/dispersement of the rest of the Internat applications (name, ftp, news, www, time etc. servers). Until that time, the existing search and directory systems have be used, such as http://www.ee/, http://www.neti.ee/, http://altavista.telia.com/ and others. A preliminary overview can also be obtained from the list below (see also http://www.rk.ee/valitsus/valress.html - in Estonian).

 

WWW servers

 

Office of the President http://www.president.ee/

The Parliament http://www.rk.ee/rkogu/

Legal Commission http://www.rk.ee/rkogu/oik/

The Government http://www.rk.ee/

The Prime Minister http://www.rk.ee/pm/

National Court http://www.nc.ee/

Bank of Estonia http://www.ee/epbe/

National Election Committee http://www.tpu.ee/~vvk/

"Flash overviews" of State Election Committee http://www.rk.ee/vvk/

State Chancellery http://www.rk.ee/rk/

Governmental communications http://vs.ee/

Informatics Centre http://www.eif.ee/

Council of Informatics http://www.eif.ee/EIN/

Editorial Board of Riigi Teataja http://www.rk.ee/~teataja/

Department of National Information Systems http://www.rk.ee/ris/

The Estonian Information Agency http://eta.www.ee/

Ministry of Justice http://www.just.ee/

Executive Board http://www.ee/just.html#taitev

Ministry of Education

EENet http://www.eenet.ee/

Institute of Baltic Studies http:://www.ibs.ee/

Tartu University http://www.ut.ee/

Tallinn Technical University http://www.ttu.ee/

Tallinn Art University http://www.artun.ee/

Tallinn Pedagogical University http://www.tpu.ee/

Ministry of the Environment http://www.envir.ee/

Ministry of Culture http://www.kul.ee/

Ministry of Economic Affairs http://www.mineco.ee/

Standards Board http://www.evs.ee/

Tourist Board http://www.estonia.org/

Ministry of Agriculture

Inspectorate of Seed and Variety Testing http://www.online.ee/~estvar/

Ministry of Finance http://www.netexpress.ee/rahmin/

Customs Board http://customs.ee/

Andmevara Ltd. http://www.andmevara.ee/

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Data Protection Department http://www.sisemin.gov.ee/ako/

Borderguard Department http://www.pv.ee/

Rescue Board http://www.online.ee/~rescue/

Ministry of Social Affairs http://www.sm.ee/

Agency of Medicines http://www.sam.ee/

Ministry of Transport and Communication

National Road Administration http://www.mnt.ee/

Estonian National Maritime Board http://www.enmb.ee/

Inspection of Telecommunication http://rei.ee/

Ministry of Foreign Affairs http://www.vm.ee/

Embassy in Washington http://www.estemb.ee/

Harju County

Harju County Government http://www.harju.ee/

Kehra Municipality http://www.ee/kehra/valitsus.htm

Keila Municipality http://www.keila.edu.ee/Keila/lv.html

Paldiski Municipality http://www.online.ee/~paldiski/

Tallinn Municipality http://www.tallinn.ee/juhtimine/

Hiiu County

Hiiu County Government http://www.hiiumaa.ee/mv/

Hiiumaa local governments http://www.hiiumaa.ee/omaval.html

Ida-Viru County

Ida-Viru County Government http://Johvi.eenet.ee/ivmv/

Saare County

Saare County Government http://www.waldec.tt.ee/saaremaa/mv/

Saare County Government information server http://www.saare.tt.ee/

Tartu County

Tartu County Government http://www.tartumaa.ee/

Valga County

Valga County Government http://www.valgamv.ee/

Viljandi County

Viljandimaa http://www.viljandi.ee/

 

Internet services offered by public administration agencies

 

ESTLEX http://www.andmevara.ee/seadus/

State Chancellery database of legal acts http://trip.rk.ee/thwex/akt/

IBS database of legal acts http://seadus.ibs.ee/

Data on election results http://www.tpu.ee/~vvk/

"Flash overview" of the Election Committee http://www.rk.ee/vvk/

National symbols http://www.rk.ee/symb/

Weekly news on events in PAAs http://www.rk.ee/info.html

Estonian Information Agency http://eta.www.ee/

FTP serverid

Government ftp://ftp.rk.ee/

Government Communications ftp://vs.ee/

 

E-mail lists

Legislature on informatics seadusloome@www.ee

IT experts of ministries inf.min@eenet.ee

IT experts of county governments inf.mv@eenet.ee

IT experts of local governments inf.ov@eenet.ee

Chief iformation officers inf.pea@eenet.ee

Committee of digital documents dkom@ rk.ee

Standardisation specialists stand@ rk.ee

 

Internet news network

The following is a list of the main topics concerning administrative agencies in Usenet, the Internet news network:

soc.culture.estonia International group news

ee.elist Issues concerning Estonia

ee.estnet Issues concerning Internet in Estonia

ee.arvutid.unix Unix environment

ee.arvutid microsoft Microsoft environment

ee.arvutid.www WWW environment