Expertise

These are the areas and concrete topics that Siim has hands-on practical leadership and work experience from – things he is able to advise in and give a talk about:

General areas:

  • Leadership for digital change: how to lead digital transformation in organisations and at whole-of-government level
  • Digital government strategy / national digital agenda at-large: vision, strategy contents, the planning process itself
  • Roadmaps for effective delivery digital government strategy / service reforms
  • Digital service reforms: making services seamless and invisible
  • Governance for digital government / public sector IT, including effective coordination mechanisms
  • Central digital government teams and institutional roles (e.g. GCIO office, digital agency or similar): their mandate, levers, services, set-up, management practices
  • Public sector innovation: processes, instruments, ways of working
  • National / public sector AI strategy and policy
  • National cybersecurity strategy and policy: both substance and planning process
  • National cybersecurity governance and coordination

Concrete topics:

  • e-Residency programs
  • Experimentation in public sector: how to make it a systematic practice
  • Future of digital public services / user experience with government
  • Proactive and predictive services
  • Life-event / integrated services, their development and management
  • Virtual assistant program / vision for government
  • Public sector AI uptake: how to build AI-powered governments
  • Emerging technology uptake in government: how to kickstart & scale
  • Financing of digital government: different ways and lessons
  • Public sector digital competences and development, including for top leaders
  • Regulation as enabler for digital reforms
  • Once only policy and regulation
  • Data sharing and reuse across government, the governance and platforms for it (including how X-Road works)
  • Digital ID and signatures set-up and national roll-out
  • Effective management of privacy risks to enable digital reforms
  • Architectural governance for digital government
  • Shared service reforms for standard IT services (consolidation)
  • Cloud policy and strategy for public sector: lessons learned
  • Open innovation in government
  • Effective public and private sector collaboration for digital government
  • Government-as-a-Platform in practice
  • Cross-border services development: how to do it, really
  • Cross-border data sharing and free movement of data in EU
  • Digital health strategy and platforms
  • Start-up policy and ecosystem creation
  • International marketing and branding for public sector innovation and digital government programs
  • Managing cyber crisis and information security incidents: C-level and government-level view and practice