In the four and a half years since launching its e-residency program, Estonia has spent around €8m ($9m) on the scheme but earned over €18m ($20m) from it in taxes and fees. The country has now 55,000 ...

One year into its e-residency plan to offer people who are not Estonian citizens or residents a digital identity, the project's head, Kaspar Korjus, is quietly satisfied with the results. "Already by ...

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Estonia’s bold digital initiatives earned it a spot in the highest echelons of the UN’s E-Government Development Index. Find out what other countries can learn from Estonia’s e-government success. The ...

Sitting in an armchair in the comfort of your living room, you slip an encrypted national ID card into your favorite device. You type in your PIN and instantly gain access to every public service ...

Tucked into a tiny corner of northeastern Europe, Estonia is emerging as an unlikely model for governments around the world on how to use the Internet to reimagine what it means to be a country in the ...