Proceedings of 8th European Assembly on telework (Telework2001)

140• Ministers can view and prepare agenda-points, materials in advance and make quick search inmaterials, they are able to get a good overview <strong>of</strong> agenda and materials during the session• Ministers can e-participate in the sessions without being physically presentVirtual Private Networking implementations essentially means ”public lines, private data”.Public communication lines and channels, such as the Internet, are used for communication. Thisgreatly reduces communication costs, as compared to using separate physical communicationchannels. The confidentiality, authenticity and integrity <strong>of</strong> exchanged private data is ensured usingsecure cryptography algorithms. Privador Ltd. http://www.privador.com/ is leading company inVirtual Private Networking market in Estonia.Some examples:• Ministry <strong>of</strong> Foreign Affairs <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Estonia: reaching from Tallinn to Tokyo to NewYork and growing to cover all the embassies and foreign missions <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Estonia• Estonian Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice: consisting <strong>of</strong> over 50 law enforcement agencies, including courtsand prisons• Estonian Tax Board: nation-wide system with 15 CryptoWalls in Tax Board headquarters andregional <strong>of</strong>ficesVPN solutions are used also in Estonian Police, Border Guard, Customs, Citizenship and MigrationBoard.Home and mobile <strong>of</strong>fi cesLot <strong>of</strong> home and mobile <strong>of</strong>fices are introduced by several private companies. Äripäev-Datel home<strong>of</strong>fice experiment is more interesting. Äripäev is Estonia’s largest business newspaper and Datelone <strong>of</strong> largest IT companies. Helmes LTd. mobile <strong>of</strong>fice, BCS, KPNQwest, Abobase, Privador areexamples among others, several architect bureaus have announced telework.Estonian Telephone Company with cooperation Privador Ltd. is currently <strong>of</strong>fering secureteleworking solutions and environments for companies, enabling new possibilities for establishinghome and mobile <strong>of</strong>fices.e-ServicesX-Road is the modernization program <strong>of</strong> national databases with the aim to change nationaldatabases into a common public, service-rendering resource.• The citizen can get information from national databases, a common data storage, within his orher limits <strong>of</strong> authority 7 days a week and 24 hours a day• The civil servant can use all national databases in the decision-making process within his or herlimits <strong>of</strong> authority• The entrepreneur can use information included in national databases for carrying out business• The state has become more transparent, integral and intelligible for the citizens.E-Tax Board – Income Tax Statements can be filled out via Internet.