
Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Bartoš spoke at the Tallinn Digital Summit
12.10.2022 / 19:13 | Aktualizováno: 12.10.2022 / 19:21
Deputy Prime Minister for Digitization Ivan Bartoš spoke on Tuesday 11 October in one of the panels of the Tallinn Digital Summit. During his two-day visit to Estonia, he held talks with his various counterparts, discussed with experts from the Information Systems Authority and visited the e-Estonia briefing center.
The Czech Deputy Prime Minister spoke in a panel entitled "Trusted Solutions For A Digital Society: Digital Public Goods", in which he together with other panelists discussed the conditions under which states can most effectively develop digital services for citizens, possibilities of implementing common European solutions, cooperation and sharing of successful tools between individual states and also the removal of legislative bottlenecks. Ivan Bartoš spoke about the Czech government's plans to make the Czech Republic a state that caters to its citizens, anticipates their needs, helps solve life situations and has their trust.
Tallinn Digital Summit was opened by Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas together with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The event was attended by, for example, the Prime Minister of Rwanda Édouard Ngirente, the former CEO of Google and Alphabet Eric Schmidt, ministers for digital agenda of Singapore, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and representatives of the European Commission, the governments of Spain, Portugal, Germany and Poland, as well as experts from important ICT companies, foundations and think tanks.
Main topics of the summit included discussion of concrete steps that governments, financial institutions, international organizations, technical experts and the private sector can take to reduce dependence on autocratic states through trusted connectivity and trusted partnerships, coordinating global efforts to build digital and physical infrastructure for secure connectivity and debate about the rules needed for a secure digital society to function.
On the sidelines of the summit, the Czech delegation met with the Estonian Minister for Entrepreneurship and Communication Technologies Kristjan Järvan and his deputy and government CIO Luukas Ilves, the State Minister in the Portuguese Prime Minister's Office Mário Campolargo and the executive director of the Digital Nation initiative Siim Sikkut. The topics included software and expertise sharing, sharing of functional solutions and tested ideas. Deputy Prime Minister Bartoš presented the Czech priorities in the EU digital agenda, in particular the revision of the eIDAS regulation and the preparation of legislation in the field of artificial intelligence, the AI Act.
On the second day, Deputy Prime Minister Bartoš visited the e-Estonia briefing center, where he discussed, for example, the future of online state services, the use of artificial intelligence in the provision of services to citizens, proactive government services and the digitization of health care. At the end of their visit, the Czech delegation met with Margus Noorma, Director General of the Office for Information Systems, with whom he inspired the government to establish its equivalent in the Czech Republic in the form of the Digital and Information Agency (DIA). Both parties shared experience in preparing a methodology for digitizing state administration, connecting individual systems and sharing data, cyber security, and implementing online identity and proactive government services.