There seems to be some angst and uncertainty in London about what is going to happen in the post-Brexit world. What will be the conditions of Brexit? How many smart people will leave? How much will the economy be affected? Let’s talk about how the Estonian e-residency can help. When a truck with the slogan, […]
Estonia’s state-founded e-residency programme has joined the new international initiative, called “eTrade for All”, that brings international organisations, donors and businesses under one umbrella, easing developing country access to cutting-edge technical assistance and giving donors more options for funding. The initiative was launched on 18 July at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in
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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,
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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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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The Estonian government has approved and is going to forward to the parliament a draft legislation that will allow Estonian residents and also e-residents to open a bank account without having to go to a bank branch. “We would like to keep up with the times and make opening a bank account simpler and faster,
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The controversial American presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has applied and been granted Estonian e-residency, Estonian World can exclusively reveal.* Trump’s interest about the e-residency was sparked after a successful covert operation by the Estonian secret service ESSAD, its agent, who asked anonymity, disclosed to Estonian World. Despite the property mogul’s contentious image and his offensive
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The shareholders of companies listed on Nasdaq’s Tallinn Stock Exchange can soon start voting in shareholder meetings using e-voting through Estonia’s e-residency platform. As part of the programme’s pilot, shareholders who are Estonian or Estonian e-residents will be able to participate in the corporate governance of companies more conveniently, Nasdaq said in a statement. The
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Japan is the first large country who is going to implement a digital personal identification card, following Estonia’s example. The step was announced on 23 October, following a meeting between the Estonian Prime Minister, Taavi Rõivas, and the Japanese Finance Minister, Akira Amari, who visited Estonia to get acquainted with Estonian e-services. The two ministers
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Alec Ross was a key player in forming the tech and innovation strategy for the campaign of now-US President Barack Obama in 2008, and served as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor for Innovation. Isabel Hirama of the Estonian startup, Jobbatical, sat down with Ross in Washington, DC, to hear his thoughts on how
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