Estonia has rethought what a nation state is in a world where we're all online connected.
Estonia is the first country to really go online.
that Estonia and Singapore do and would trust them?
And Estonia is moving medical records onto blockchain, because they feel that it provides much higher levels of accountability and security
And Estonia because they have the best mother mortality rate.
The Estonian model is interesting in that-- I use the Edelman Trust Barometer, which is sort of the gold standard for determining
The book deals with Estonia and Germany and Europe and the US and India and Singapore, and I suggest that there are many routes,
Let's look at Estonia , for instance.
being deployed Estonia and Georgia.
So what the Estonians have tried to do is say, OK, well, with all the digital reforms that the Estonians are doing, the government
What the Estonians are trying to do-- and I'm sure it's not perfect, but it's an interesting idea-- is to say, look, we do know everything about you.
And I actually shadowed the group in Estonia and also when we were in the UK, which was a wonderful opportunity to kind of learn directly.
So this is the capital of Estonia , where I went to see this man-- Kaspar Korjus, who was running a project called e-Residency that
allows anybody who's not physically in Estonia to go online-- you can do it now-- spend 20 minutes filling in a form--
And you point to Singapore and Estonia as examples.
It's a song in Estonian.
So I think what the Estonians are doing is interesting.
And she was the head of the Estonian Chess Federation.
And he grew up in the '60s and '70s while Estonia was fighting for its independence from the Soviet Union.
And when they've done this in Finland and Estonia , they're oversubscribed right away.
He has a friend who runs a fox farm in Estonia , and there are hundreds of these fox farms around the Soviet Union and their satellites
So he talks to one of his colleagues in Estonia , who runs one of these smaller farms, and he says, here's what I wanted to do.
Well, Estonia is my best model.
But what do you think he found in Estonia ?
So he said Tibet should be like Lithuania-- Estonia , not like Latvia and Lithuania.
The least number of mothers die in childbirth in Estonia than any other country.
And you know, the Estonian singing culture is huge.
And so this is in a mixture of Latin and Estonian.
And it allows you, without going to Estonia , to set up a business in Estonia , to be a virtual resident of Estonia .
If there is a utopia, it's Estonia -- small country, unique, obviously, post-Soviet place, which benefited because in the old Soviet Union, it
I would say that Estonia is the best case.
OK, let's create the wood in Estonia , where all the wood is.
She also happens to be one of the best chess players in Estonia .
With the Czech Republic, behind countries like Estonia and Jamaica and so on.
On the data front, I think what the Estonians are doing is interesting, because I talked to the former Estonian president, who
This doesn't refer only to the United States of America, but also Estonia , a few countries in Europe-- many countries in Europe--
And we went, also, to Estonia .
'The Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia , and Lithuania called their 1989 withdrawal from the Soviet Union the Singing Revolutions.
I think the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Estonians, and others are genuinely worried for the first time in some decades.
in a PowerPoint presentation that shows them a proof of concept or that says to them, "Look, this works in Estonia , "and since it works in Estonia , Japan and in the United States,
You lived in Dubai, in Mexico, Sweden, Estonia , Azerbaijan.
Petersburg, Helsinki, Latvia and Estonia are on the left.
The Russians got themselves the Polish Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia .
He even thinks it will be a subscription service eventually, which means they won't have to charge income tax in Estonia .
in that corridor between the Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia , down through Poland, into Belarus and the Ukraine, that were a corridor that was invaded
We're seeing some countries latch on to this, arguably the most advanced e-government in the world is Estonia .
OK, usually people don't know this, but I'm willing to bet 100% of people in the room know that Skype was developed in Estonia .
You know, you have attacks on the physical infrastructure, critical infrastructure, like say what happened Estonia