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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...
The Estonian government today announces that it is globally launching its Digital Testbed Framework, inviting anyone around the world to come and build or try out their groundbreaking new ideas, prototypes, products or whole new digital services, in a world-leading digital government setting. The deadline...
E-Residents of Estonia, who have established 13,000 Estonian companies worldwide since the launch of the e-Residency programme in December 2014, have now accumulated a total turnover exceeding £1.5 billion. The growth has been fuelled by a recent substantial increase in Estonian companies established by e-Residents...
The Republic of Estonia, in conjunction with e-Residency, the internationally-renowned Estonian digital ID programme, has finally launched Estonia’s Digital Nomad Visa (DNV). Authorised by the Estonian parliament on June 3rd 2020, the visa will be available to citizens worldwide who want to take advantage of...