{"id":77316,"date":"2018-04-01T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:11:29","slug":"one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship","title":{"rendered":"One of Estonia\u2019s first \u201ce-residents\u201d explains what it means to have digital citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years in, what I find most incredible about e-Residency is that it actually works.<\/p>\n<p><b>Estonia\u2019s quest to become a \u201cdigital nation\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To better understand how e-Residency came about, let\u2019s go back almost 30 years, to 1991. Estonia had just won independence from the Soviet Union and was in the early stages of building a market-oriented economy from scratch. At the time, leaders were quick to identify the potential of the internet and open source collaboration tools (interestingly this was less out of principle, and more for the simple reason that they had no money to pay for Microsoft Office). They decided to become the world\u2019s premier \u201cdigital nation.\u201d A favorite quote I\u2019ve heard in Estonia: \u201cWhat do you think of when you hear the word Slovenia? Nothing. Precisely! We don\u2019t want to be Slovenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/work.qz.com\/1241833\/one-of-estonias-first-e-residents-explains-what-it-means-to-have-digital-citizenship\/\">https:\/\/work.qz.com\/1241833\/one-of-estonias-first-e-resident...tizenship\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years in, what I find most incredible about e-Residency is that it actually works. Estonia\u2019s quest to become a \u201cdigital nation\u201d To better understand how e-Residency came about, let\u2019s go back almost 30 years, to 1991. Estonia had just won independence from the Soviet Union and was in the early stages of building a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77427,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77316\/revisions\/77427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}