Position: Executive director of e-Governance Academy
Organization: e-Governance Academy, Estonia

Ivar Tallo is one of the founders and the first director of e-Governance Academy. Before that, he was a Member of Parliament of Estonia and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He has also worked as a foreign policy advisor to the President of Estonia and he has been lecturing on public policy and public administration at Tartu University. He was the author of the Basic Principles of Information Policy of Estonia (1997), Code of Conduct for Civil Servants (1998) and co-authored Public Information Act (2000). He was raporteur for the Digital Signature Law in Estonia (2000) and raporteur for the Cybercrime Convention of the Council of Europe (2001).

He has given personal advice and e-gov lectures to presidents of Kazakhstan and Armenia, Cabinets and Ministers of Haiti, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbajian, Northern Cyprus, Palestinian Authonomy, Namibia and Rwanda, Speakers and MPs from Macedonia, Afghanistan, and Kazakhstan and to many other decision makers around the world.

• Panel discussion: Innovations for Business eParticipation