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Identity Assurance warrants more public debate

24 November 2011  Pete Swabey

With his signature bow tie and transatlantic accent, Estonian president Toomas Ilves is not quite what one expects the head of a former Soviet state to be like.

But Estonia is a special case, in many ways. For one thing, the country is arguably the world’s most sophisticated adopter of e-government.

As Ilves explained to the London Conference on Cyberspace in October 2011, 90% of the country’s tax returns are filled in online, 25% of votes in this year’s elections were cast online and 76% of the population regularly uses the Internet. “Information technology and its use by... read more...

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