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Axelle Lemaire

French digital affairs minister: Estonia is a small state that became bigger, thanks to its choice of being a digital country

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Axelle Lemaire, the French minister responsible for her country’s digital affairs, visited the Estonian capital as a guest of the Tallinn e-Governance Conference, and discussed with Estonian World the entrepreneurship and startup culture in respective countries and what could a large country like France pick up from Estonia. The Estonian ICT Week, taking place in late May/early June, […]

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American fintech company integrates Estonian e-residency into its technology

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An American digital back office provider for online private securities platforms, Crowd Valley, is to develop and extend its offering through its collaboration with the Estonian e-residency platform, allowing those with the Estonian digital ID to quickly and securely authenticate themselves or digitally sign in the private securities platforms supported by the company. According to

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Prince Andrew of the UK to visit Estonia, attend tech conference Latitude59

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Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, the Duke of York, will give an opening speech and present the Pitch@Palace initiative at Estonia’s flagship tech conference Latitude59 to be held from 31 May to 1 June 2016 in Tallinn. “It is very exciting that the Duke of York will be returning to Estonia for Latitude 59, to engage

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Estonian startup Quips aims to reinvent how people discover top businesses

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Moving to any new place is a daunting prospect whether you are an international or a citizen of the same country. Arranging accommodation, health services, a job (unless you have one already), finding new friends and life’s daily rituals is a stressful realisation for many. The Tallinn-based startup, Quips, was born out of a personal

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Estonia hits the 10,000 e-resident milestone

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This week Manu Sporny, the CEO of a US-based company called Digital Bazaar, became the 10,000th e-resident of Estonia after picking up his e-resident’s card from the country’s embassy in Washington, DC. Although he’s never physically visited Estonia, Sporny has followed the country’s e-residency initiative, which aims to build a borderless digital society, since the

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Estonia and Finland move towards bilateral cross-border data exchange

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Estonia and Finland have adopted a joint declaration on an initial road map for launching data exchange and e-services between the two countries, setting an example for other states. Data exchange between Estonia and Finland, making the databases interchangeably available, aims to offer better public services to citizens and businesses that operate across the borders.

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Estonian company launches an electric scooter

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An Estonian startup is launching a lightweight electric scooter, called “Stigo”, today in Beijing, China; the first of the scooters will reach the customers in June. The company claims its product to be “the world’s most lightweight and fastest-folding e-scooters”. According to the CEO of Stigo, Ardo Reinsaly, the scooter is “designed mainly for urban

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Forbes recommends Estonian-founded Teleport for “finding the best places to work on Earth”

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The American business magazine, Forbes, compiled five resources that will give a complete rundown on the best places to work on the planet, including the Estonian-founded platform, Teleport. The magazine said in the introduction that the formation of a global remote work community has resulted in a slew of services that curate important information on

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Estonian startup SprayPrinter is on a mission to fight against blank walls

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SprayPrinter is a wireless device that delivers photos on the wall via a mobile app. It’s a one-of-a-kind tool that helps people release the artist within by moving the spray can against the wall and printing over 200 pixels in any colour on any wall. As a dynamic product, it’s gaining popularity among street artists,

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