Since leaving office Toomas Ilves, president of Estonia from 2006-16 and driver of the Baltic state’s world-leading initiatives in e-government and cyber security, has become a roving advocate for digital government. Early in November he told the 2017 edition of the Microsoft Summit that those countries wanting to emulate Estonia need to “mind the gap” between the pace of digitalisation in the private and public sectors.
Speaking at Romania’s National Theatre in Bucharest, where this year’s summit was held, Ilves – also now a visiting professor at Stanford University – shared with a rapt audience how Estonia’s small size had determined …read more
Source: Emerging Europe