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My Digital Self podcast: reversed Big Brother and the pillars of the e-state

My Digital Self

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Our speaker Tobias J. Koch recently had the pleasure of being a guest on Matthew Foley’s podcast, My Digital Self, to discuss Estonia’s path of becoming the advanced digital nation it is today and how digitalisation helped re-build a state based on principles of openness, trust and privacy. 

It took Estonia a little less than 30 years to build its digital society from scratch and become the advanced digital nation it is known as today. Matthew and Tobias touch upon the importance of timing and resource allocation in this story of transformation as well as the role of the public and private sector in building principles of transparency, trust and privacy into the state infrastructure. The key components of our e-state, such as the digital identity, accessible services, and secure data exchange via the X-Road were also discussed to answer the question of how Estonians retain full ownership over their data when trusting it all to servers and state authorities.

Listen to the full story on Matthew Foley’s My Digital Self , (also available on Spotify!)

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The Briefing Centre is conveniently located just a 2-minute drive from the airport and 15- to 20-minute drive from the city centre.

You will find us on the ground floor of Valukoja 8, at the central entrance behind the statue of Mr Ernst Julius Öpik. We will meet the delegation at the building’s reception. Kindly note that a booking is required to visit us.

Valukoja 8
11415 Tallinn, Estonia