Hannes Astok is the Executive Director and Chairman of the Management Board at the Estonian e-Governance Academy. He also acts as the Senior Expert on the information society, promoting the role of local governments and addressing challenges of mobile governance. He has also trained and consulted with central and local governments in Central Asia, Caucasus, South-East Europe, the Middle East, and other transition areas. He has recently worked with the governments of Ukraine, Namibia, Moldova, Georgia, Mauritius, among other developing contexts.

The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded for the creation and transfer of knowledge concerning e-governance, e-democracy, and the development of civil society, based in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. It is a joint initiative of the Government of Estonia, Open Society Institute (OSI), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), founded in 2002. eGA trains and advises leaders and stakeholders in using information and communication technology (ICT) to increase government efficiency and to improve democratic processes with the aim of building open information societies.

eGA has worked with more than 130 governments, trained more than 6500 officials from more than 50 countries, and led or participated in more than 50 ICT projects on the international, national, and local levels.