Ivar Tallo is currently a senior program officer at the UNITAR, responsible for the e-governance programme. He was one of the founders and the director of e-Governance Academy. Before that, he was a Member of Parliament of Estonia and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In this capacity he was the raporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE for the cybercrime convention. 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, Code of Conduct for Civil Servants and co-authored Public Information Act. Additional info at www.ega.ee  and http://egov.unitar.or