The annual Tallinn Digital Summit, held on September 5th, was introduced by Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who mentioned in her speech the importance of creating safe and open legal states with accessible information. According to the prime minister, the main goal of European states should be to protect democracy, both from external and internal threats, and therefore have a strong digital defence. At the end, she presented concrete steps that Estonia is taking in this direction.

  The three key topics addressed by the summit discussions were technological resilience, the ability to act and the openness of democracies in the new digital world.

Ivan Bartoš, the Czech Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization, spoke in the opening panel of the summit. Together with other participants, they agreed that the most important elements of Digital Europe should be transparency and personal data protection. However, digital transformation is closely linked to the corresponding level of education.

Other important guests of the summit were the Prime Minister of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovachevski, the Prime Minister of Cape Verde José Ulisses de Pina Correia e Silva, the European Commissioner for Internal Trade Thierry Breton and other representatives of the European Commission, the Ministers for Digitization of Moldova, Singapore, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine, representatives of the governments of the Baltic countries and other important representatives from IT sector.

On Wednesday September 6th, the Deputy Prime Minister also attended the Tallinn OGP Summit - Partnership for Open Governance. The main focus of the summit was open government in the digital age, the potential of technology to make administration and policy-making more transparent and accountable, and topics related to the protection of democracy. Estonia introduced to the audience its successful operation of e-government.

  Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Bartoš spoke in a section on the topic of digital governance leading to greater credibility and openness. He agreed with his counterparts on the importance of solid infrastructure and protection in the digital world and the need to find a balance between the right to access information and privacy.

In addition to the summit, the Deputy Prime Minister met with the delegations of Ukraine, Poland, and Singapore, as well as with representatives of the International Telecommunication Union ITU and the Digital Europe Association. He also met with the UN GT Commissioner for Technology, Mr. Amandeep Gill.