Silvia Lips Email & Phone Number

Estonia

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Responsible for eIDAS regulation related initiatives at the national level and coordinating the communication with Member States and European level.

Estonia

Conduncting research on the eID and e-governance field; - participating in different ICT projects; - scientificpublications; - conferences; - lecturing.

Estonian ID-1 format documents (ID-cards, residence permits, digital identity cards) and travel documents (passports) production service owner; - responsible for Estonian mobile-ID, ID documents and travel documents procurements; participation in different identity documents and travel documents development projects; - cooperation with international partners.

Estonia, Tallinn

1. Managing of the Department;2. Co-operation with public and private sector organizations;3. Developing the necessary legal and public procurement processes for the organization;4. Participating in the creation of ICT legislation in Estonia:4.1 giving opinions in the legislative area of mobile identity, digital signature, x-road, biometrics, e-voting etc.;4.2 giving opinions on the drafts of databases statutes;5. Participation in different working groups which are… Show more 1. Managing of the Department;2. Co-operation with public and private sector organizations;3. Developing the necessary legal and public procurement processes for the organization;4. Participating in the creation of ICT legislation in Estonia:4.1 giving opinions in the legislative area of mobile identity, digital signature, x-road, biometrics, e-voting etc.;4.2 giving opinions on the drafts of databases statutes;5. Participation in different working groups which are dealing with ICT legislation.6. Settlement of complex legal disputes and legal counseling;6.1 disputes related to public procurement and EU financial aid issues;6.2 software licensing topics:6.2.1 proprietary software license terms and conditions (e.g. Oracle, Microsoft) that were not necessarily compliant with Estonian legislation;6.2.2 how to make software legally correctly available under the General Public License (GPL) or European Union Public License (EUPL).6.3 Data protection issues.6.4 Legal counseling of new ICT projects.7. Legal training. Show less

Estonia, Tallinn

1. Ensuring the legally correct start of a new public sector institution – the IT and Development Centre under the Estonian Ministry of the Interior (SMIT);2. Consolidation of all ICT contracts from the Police, Border Guard Board, Citizenship and Migration Board and Estonian Academy of Security Sciences to SMIT (I was the team leader of this project);3. Counseling other sections in SMIT on developing the basic organizational processes like document management, security procedures… Show more 1. Ensuring the legally correct start of a new public sector institution – the IT and Development Centre under the Estonian Ministry of the Interior (SMIT);2. Consolidation of all ICT contracts from the Police, Border Guard Board, Citizenship and Migration Board and Estonian Academy of Security Sciences to SMIT (I was the team leader of this project);3. Counseling other sections in SMIT on developing the basic organizational processes like document management, security procedures, different ICT processes etc.;4. Developing an all-purpose template for ICT public procurement contracts;5. Legal counseling:5.1 Projects 5.2 Contracts – licenses, software development, hardware, information systems maintenance etc.;5.3 data protection issues;5.4 labor law matters;6. Co-operation with other public entities and organizations like ministries, Centre of Registers and Information Systems, Estonian Information System´s Authority, Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate etc.;7. Participating in the creation of ICT legislation in Estonia:7.1 giving opinions in the legislative area of mobile identity, digital signature, x-road, biometrics, e-voting etc.;7.2 giving opinions on the drafts of databases statutes;8. Participation in different working groups;9. Legal trainings for employees. Show less

Estonia, Tallinn

I was specialized on EU law and ICT law issues.1. Drafting of legal acts1.1 drafting of national legal acts for joining the Schengen area;1.2 drafting of legal acts that allow capturing biometrical data and store them in identification documents;1.3 drafting for transposition of different EU directives into national law (e.g. EU citizenship directive);1.4 Drafting of national legal acts related to citizenship and migration area (refugees, foreigners, documents, visas… Show more I was specialized on EU law and ICT law issues.1. Drafting of legal acts1.1 drafting of national legal acts for joining the Schengen area;1.2 drafting of legal acts that allow capturing biometrical data and store them in identification documents;1.3 drafting for transposition of different EU directives into national law (e.g. EU citizenship directive);1.4 Drafting of national legal acts related to citizenship and migration area (refugees, foreigners, documents, visas, residence permits, deportation etc.).2. Participation in national legislative process and giving opinions on drafts of national and EU legal acts (EU papers, directives);3. Legal counseling:3.1 data protection issues;3.2 contract analyses;3.3 preparing decree drafts;4. Participation in different working groups (mID, digital signature);5. Preparing the implementation of the administration system of the state information system in CMB;6. Legal trainings for officials:6.1 about biometrical identification and protection of biometrical data (15 trainings, 10-15 people in each group);6.2 about new Data Protection and Public Information Act (about 10 trainings, around 15 people in each group);6.3 About data protection in the Schengen Information System (training for 80 people). Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Technology, Phd

Master’S Degree, Information Technology, Msc

eGovernance technologies and services, Cum laude

Master’S Degree, Legal Professions And Studies, Ll.M

Master´s thesis on the aspects of the biometrical identification and verification through the data protection law. Cum Laude

Education record