ESIS extension / Estonia / www Indicators / Update Memo 4

A comprehensive survey on the field "Estonian Tiger Leap into the 21^st Century" (1998) includes also comprehensive analysis of Estonian web pages. The survey was carried out by BMF Gallup Media (Balti Meediateabe AS) on the commissioning and financing of the Estonian branch office of United Nations Organisation.

Amongst others conclusion it is stated that the number of working unique institutional homepages in Estonia is 1 755 and as there are 37 688 registered institutions and enterprises it leads to conclusion that 5% of the Estonian enterprises and institutions have their own homepages.

Attention is paid to the fact that the institutions of non-profit nature are better represented in the Internet compared to for-profit enterprises. The highest representation of the organisations is of the organisations operating in the following sectors:

More than 10% of the registered enterprises and institutions are represented on the Internet from following sectors:

As the result of the survey it is admitted that the best performance of public administration organisations is shown by state institutions, followed by cities and other local governments.

The main target groups are the general public and domestic/foreign tourists. For the general public, different information is provided for communication with officials (contact data, introduction, opening hours, duties performed). The freely distributed information materials also take part in the process of informing. Many local municipalities are using Internet for promoting the whole region in addition to municipality. More interactive features are used for presenting the region, especially in bigger towns. English is used in more than 50% of pages. ("The Estonian Tiger Leap into the 21^st Century")

In the first quarter of 2000 the company NetEntrance`i carried out another survey among the representatives of 70 enterprises and concluded, that 32% of Estonian enterprises have not benefited from owning the web page. One of the explanatory factors could be inconsistency in updating and developing the web pages as 44% of web-pages have not been updated during the last six months.

	Total number of "population"	Total number of Web sites	% of website / total number of "population"	Source
Primary and secondary schools	722	173	24 %	Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999. Phare ISE Program
High schools and universities	37	24	65 %	Ministry of Education; Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999.
National ministries	12	12	100%	State Portal.
Regional and local authorities	262	82	31 %	Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999; State Portal; Association of Estonian Cities; Portal http://www.ee/www/; Portal http://www.neti.ee/.
Hospitals/clinics	78*	13*	17 %	Portal http://www.ee/www/; Portal http://www.neti.ee/. Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999.
Museums	117	37	32 %	Portal http://www.ee/www/; Portal http://www.neti.ee/. Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999.
Libraries	717**	24	3 %	Portal http://www.ee/www/; Portal http://www.neti.ee/. Statistical Office, Statistical Yearbook of Estonia 1999.

**Hospitals only
** There are 599 public libraries and 103 specialized and scientific libraries in Estonia in 1998. The number does not include school libraries.

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It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission, nor does the Commission accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of information contained herein.
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