E-Estonia a Digital Country

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E-Estonia a Digital Country

Taavi Kotka, who spent four years as Estonia’s chief information officer, is one of the leading public faces of a project known as e-Estonia: a coördinated governmental effort to transform the country from a state into a digital society.

E-Estonia is the most ambitious project in technological statecraft today, for it includes all members of the government, and alters citizens’ daily lives. The normal services that government is involved with—legislation, voting, education, justice, health care, banking, taxes, policing, and so on—have been digitally linked across one platform, wiring up the nation.

– https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/estonia-the-digital-republic

 

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[Ed P]

From memory you can also get an E-Passport from them that will enable you to securely sign legal papers throughtout the EU. However, I assume that disappears with our Brexit debacle.

[Richard]

Estonia has not been without some set backs as I recall. A number of their E documents had to be withdrawn and replaced in the last (query) 24 months. From what I remember there was little or no fuss, unlike what would have happened here when some mob or another would have screamed blue murder. I wonder how well the less adaptable elements of their society cope and are helped with the technology and I am not just considering the older portion of the population.

Still even I used a hospital car park wave and wait sorry pay parking machine at the hospital last week. Apart from being hugely slower than cash it avoided a problem of no coins. All problems now solved by a parking pass for the next 6 months. That was the first time I used a contactless card.

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