CIESIN Estonia

After the end of the CIESIN Estonia program at January 1997, the www pages of different initiatives were kept available for readers as historical, background information until January 2004. Starting from January 2004, this material is available only through archive.org ... or if you really need it, you can ask it by email from .

We suggest you to visit ESTONICA - Encyclopedia about Estonia, compiled and updated by the Estonian Institute, Estonian Web Directories Estonia-Wide Web and NETI.

CIESIN Estonia Node initiatives to identify, document and provide access to information on the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), including:

• CIESIN Gateway, access to a distributed catalog that identifies data and information resources relevant to Estonian natural, and social science communities;
• Estonia Country Guide, interdisciplinary and multimedia, includes documents, datasets, maps, images, text and links to resources available about Estonia in the Internet;
• Estonia OnLine, Network Resources;
• informative pages about The Flag of Estonia and Estonia's Coat of Arms;
• Virtual Tourist Clickable Map;
• Open Estonia Foundation project "Intermedia" (E96-6.02-03) to allow the largest number of people possible physical access to the Internet, its resources and information, user education (tools of the Internet, e-mail, WWW);
• Open Estonia Foundation project "Stylus" to initiate Internet Training and various WWW services;
• EC INCO-COPERNICUS project INSIGHT to transfer the WWW expertise from Western European research organizations, prepare well documented materials for WWW installation and development in Estonian language, caching activities in Estonia;
• internet directories to other on-line information resources in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

have been carried out in period December 1993 - January 1997 in joint development of the Estonian Government, Academies, Universities, NGO's, the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), United Nations Development Programme / Sustainable Development Network Programme (UNDP/SDNP) and Open Estonia Foundation (OEF).

Awards

• In January 1995, included into 40061 GOVERNMENT WEBster overview
• In July 1995, Radio2 Estonia appointed CIESIN Estonia as Best WWW in Estonia
• In August 1995, Rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Survey
• In the December 1995 issue of PC/Computing magazine, Estonia Country Guide was listed in the "Best 1001 Internet Sites"
• In January 1997, NetGuide has selected Estonia Country Guide as a Gold Site
• January 1997, LookSmart is delighted to award The Editor's Choice Award
• Included into City.Net communities around the world
• June 1998, was reviewed and recommended in the book 'Investing Online' - published by Financial Times Pitman Publishing [London]
• February 2000, Britannica.com editors have selected as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability

January 4th, 2004