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TALLINN, ESTONIA, 07 November 2021 - Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, today announced that Bürokratt, the world’s first public service AI-based virtual assistant, will officially go live in 2022 following on from its successful beta testing in 2021. Citizens will be able to...
“We’ve developed a legal framework, like a standard agreement, under which we can work with innovators for free, no red tape, no procurement.” This is how Siim Sikkut, Deputy Secretary-General for IT and Telecom and Government CIO of Estonia, describes the recently launched Digital Testbed...
Siim Sikkut is the Government CIO of Estonia but officially titled as Deputy Secretary-General for IT and Telecom. In office since 2017, Siim is in charge of the digital government and society as well as telecommunications and post areas. Mr. Sikkut is responsible for setting...
Digital Transformation Why Businesses Governments Must Change with Smart Cities, 4IR, AI, Blockchain There is no alternative to digital transformation. The challenge and opportunity is: how to do it? As per George Westerman, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy: “When digital transformation is done...
[caption id="attachment_1516" align="alignnone" width="925"] Covid 10 Pandemic, image by citiesabc[/caption] The Bad, the Revelation and the Unknown The Bad (Virus) This is a Thought leadership opinion article by Saleem Beebeejaun Very few predicted a pandemic of such a global and devastating magnitude , some are...
[caption id="attachment_1451" align="alignnone" width="1002"] debt to skyrocket amid pandemic, says GlobalData[/caption] Private and public sector debt to skyrocket amid pandemic, says GlobalData News Release provided by Global Data The global debt level is expected to surge significantly in the first half of 2020 due to...