Title:
Estonia Is a ‘Digital Republic’—What That Means and Why It May Be Everyone’s Future
Author:
Dr Imtiaz Khan & Ali Shahaab
Published:
SingularityHub, 15 October 2020
From the article:
Estonia offers the most comprehensive governmental online services in the world. In the US, it takes an average taxpayer with no business income eight hours to file a tax return. In Estonia, it takes just five minutes. In the UK, billions of pounds have been spent on IT, yet the NHS still struggles to make patient data accessible across different health boards. In Estonia, despite having multiple private health service providers, doctors can collate and visualize patient records whenever and wherever necessary, with consent from patients—a real boon in the country’s fight against coronavirus.