E-Government

Informatics teacher Jevgeni Mihhailov inspects computers in an empty classroom in a school in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 7, 2012.

In Estonia, almost everything — from voting to updating medical records — can be done online

December 13, 2017Technology

Estonia has a population less than half that of Silicon Valley. But the small Baltic nation has managed to put itself on the map as on of the most digitally innovative countries in the world through it’s E-Stonia project, which has digitized almost all aspects of citizen life.

Tech Has Revolutionized Everything Else – Why Not Government?

August 15, 2013

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