You may not want to look back too carefully at a year many of us will no doubt wish to forget, but we have put together a recap of 2020 in the emerging Europe region...
Tag - Digital Society
At the turn of the century, Estonia embarked on a mission to technologically transform our society; we would go on to become world-renowned for our digital-first ethos...
The coronavirus pandemic is driving more UK companies towards Estonia’s e-residency programme, according to new research carried out by the Baltic country’s...
You write too much about Estonia, and it’s always complementary – a genuine ‘complaint’ from a reader of Emerging Europe. Well, throwing convention and my usual...
In a joint statement, the chair of the Council of Europe’s data protection Convention 108 committee, Alessandra Pierucci, and the Council of Europe’s Data Protection...
With over three billion people across the globe now in lockdown due to Covid-19, the world’s largest hackathon, The Global Hack, begins today, running until April 12...
Born as part of Hack the Crisis, an event organised by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia as part of Estonia’s start-ups’ plan to hack the Covid-19 crisis, chatbot Suve is...
A quick primer on what is, and what is not, digitalisation (in, at least, my humble opinion). Across emerging Europe, governments are responding to the outbreak of the...
“We are not a traditional government department,” says Ott Vatter, the managing director of Estonia’s enormously successful e-residency programme. One look at the...
