Estonian State Budget Visualized
Garage48.org guys had another one of their weekend hackathon events, returning to homely Estonia (after Helsinki and before Riga and Stockholm events – check them out) to focus more narrowly on building working apps that address some public service need. There has been some fair coverage already, on the high quality output from the event [...]
Using Your Voice
With Estonian parliamentary elections coming up on March 6th, I agreed to participate in the “Minu hääl” (“My Voice”) TV ad campaign by the Electoral Committee, featuring a bunch of celebrities (from music, theatre and such) and a few people from the street (like some elderly and your’s truly). These are not party ads, e.g not urging you [...]
Välisinvesteeringud 2: tore ei ole tobe
Eile murdsin pead selle üle, milline võiks olla Sven Mikseri seisukoht välisinvesteeringute ja Eesti oma ettevõtluse toetamise küsimuses. Tolle postituste kommentaaridest tuli mitu head mõtet (aitäh!): vaadata-kuulata videosalvestust ja küsida Mikserilt otse. Tegin mõlemat ja sain targemaks: From: Sven Mikser <Sven.Mikser@riigikogu.ee> Date: February 21, 2011 13:56:07 GMT+02:00 To: Sten Tamkivi Subject: RE: Reedene Tuulelohe lend [...]
Välisinvesteeringud, väljamurdmine maailma ja Mikser
Reedel toimus Eesti Tööandjate Keskliidu iga-aastane Tuulelohe Lend, kuhu ma kohale ei jõudnud, aga olen pisteliselt lugenud sealsetest esinemistest tekkinud uudisnupukesi. Näiteks Äripäev vahendab Allani seisukohta, et otseinvesteeringud kipuvad meile tulema väärtusahela alumisse otsa ja seetõttu peaks nende peibutamise asemel riik neist enam stimuleerima Eesti oma kapitalil ettevõtete maailma murdmist. Oluline teemapüstitus. Mina arvan, et [...]
Kuidas valida, keda valida?
Ka seekordsete valimiste lähenedes hakkab saabuma tavapärane ärevus, et kellele ikkagi oma hääl seekord usaldada. Alguses tundub, et kui sul on üsna läbimõeldud ootused Eesti ühiskonna arengule, valik seisukohti konkreetsetes jah/ei küsimustes (nt jah, ma hindan maksusüsteemi ühetaolisust, läbipaistvust ja lihtsust), mõned selged eetilised standardid neile, keda end poliitikas esindamas näen (nt oskus selgelt eristada partei [...]
Tallinn University Has a New Rector
Professor Tiit Land was elected to be the next Rector of Tallinn University (TLU) just a few hours ago, winning the close race with just by 7 votes (52:45). I was part of the electoral body as a side effect of sitting on TLU’s Council (kuratoorium) since last November – by invitation of the current [...]
sten.tamkivi.com Revamp
With a week of downtime to ponder about things, I also thought about this site and its role in my portfolio of things to maintain. It has been a year since I posted here and not for the lack of things to say or share but for the much-discussed oncoming of byte-size social media. I’ve [...]
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