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A new five-year contact has been agreed between the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) and the certification service provider SK ID Solutions AS (SK) for Mobile-ID.

The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website was temporarily inaccessible on Monday (May 9) after it was subjected to DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) blocking attacks.

Siim Sikkut was the deputy secretary general in charge of digital development for five years during which he saw seven ministers come and go. He believes that the digital proficiency of both officials and politicians needs to be boosted for the Estonian state IT system to endure and be improved. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications should have a bigger say and the entire field more money, Sikkut finds.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed law No. 1967-IX "On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine regulating the issues of transplantation of anatomical materials to a person."

The Estonian ID-card will turn 20 next year in which context some previously classified documents were made public last week. These work to confirm experts' doubts in that while the ID-card has largely been a success story, there have been major issues that have been kept from the public over the last two decades.

Could Estonians be able to vote safely using smart devices in the near future, Arne Koitmäe asks.