Hannes Astok
eGA Executive Director, Chairman of the Management Board
M: +372 509 1366
S: hannesastok
Hannes Astok is the Executive Director and Chairman of the Management Board at the e-Governance Academy. He is an enthusiastic speaker for the information society, especially promoting the role of local governments and challenges of mobile governance and new technologies in government.
During the last years, he has been working closely with the governments of Ukraine, Dominica, Mongolia, Namibia, Barbados, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Kyrgyzstan, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, Samoa, Georgia, Jamaica, Moldova, and Sri Lanka, among others.
Hannes served as Member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) in 2007-2011, where he mainly dealt with the development of information society and issues related to regulation of intellectual property and electronic communication.
In 2012-13, Hannes was Adviser to the President of Estonia on Information Society development.
He started his political career in Tartu, working for the decade for the City of Tartu as Deputy Mayor. Today Tartu is one of the world’s leading cities in e-governance, providing for citizens and businesses wide variety of Internet and mobile phone based services.