The latest winner of the „Estonia’s Best E-service“ contest is TransferWise, a provider of international payments and currency exchange services. The winner was announced at the information society conference. According to Katri Ristal, chairwoman of the jury of “Estonia’s Best E-Service” contest, TransferWise won both in the category of e-commerce and in the overall category. […]
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Latvia hopes to become the 18th EU member state to join the eurozone. Estonia became the 17th in 2011. The Financial Times’ Nordic and Baltic correspondent Richard Milne spoke to the President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, about Estonia’s experience in the eurozone and his advice to Latvia. I Courtersy of Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/home/uk
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The European IT Agency has been called the biggest IT challenge for the entire European Union. What does the agency do, how did it come to reside in Estonia and what is the meaning of such an institution for the local entrepreneurial environment? In December 2012, the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems
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International jazz festival Jazzkaar returned to Tallinn over the weekend and continues until 28th April at the specially built unique Marina Pavilion by the sea at the Port of Tallinn grounds. It’s twenty fourth time for the festival and it is again attracting many international talents. The main performers are soul-jazz talent Zara McFarlane from
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London-based Estonian start-up TransferWise has launched a campaign to help European start-ups save money and focus their limited resources on growing their business. They have also won the support from one of the most famous start uppers the world has ever known: British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. Their campaign aims to use the TransferWise technology
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Estonian band Zebra Island has just released their debut album Saturnine. The band has a short, but colourful history. Zebra Island was formed in the autumn of 2011, when producer and multi-instrumentalist Rasmus Lill joined forces with vocalist Helina Risti. Lauri Raus on guitars, Caspar Salo on drums and Martti Laas also joined the group. 2012
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Tallinn Music Week is a 3-day music industry conference and one of the biggest indoor festivals in the Baltic region that started out in 2009. The mission of the festival, taking place for the fifth time this year, is to raise the reputation of Estonian music, to enhance the international development of local music industry
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Exporting public e-services can be complicated, since every country is unique in its legislative and institutional environment. Quite often, a country’s historical and cultural background makes it difficult to accept changes to the existing services. Still, some ideas are just so appealing that they find their way in. We’ll describe five components of Estonian e-society
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Learning the basics of the Estonian language is not considered easy for speakers of Indo-European languages, but a free, online course is offering an easy start and has already attracted thousands of sign-ups. Keeleklikk, which translates to “Language Click,” incorporates work by professional actors and writers, and uses animation and short film clips to make
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Citizens and entrepreneurs are reaping benefits from Estonia’s 1996 ‘Tiger’s Leap’ technology programme. Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news and information newspaper, visited Estonia to discover why policy makers from around the world are trekking to the tiny Baltic state. I Report by Richard Milne Produced and edited by Helen Barrett, filmed by
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