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“We have to restore the merchant fleet and bring the sailors back under our flag, ” Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson said as a set of bills on regulation of seafaring activities was adopted in the parliament.

The E-Estonia Council approved the white paper drafted on the initiative of the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) and the Information System Authority (RIA) on identity and document management, which charts the current situation in the field and highlights the initial views of experts on the developments of the next ten years

On February 19th, the President of the Republic of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid opened the new e-Estonia Briefing Centre in the Öpiku Building in Ülemiste City, which introduces our unique digital society and e-solutions to high-level foreign visitors from both the private and public sector.

Work in Estonia launches already 2nd Career Hunt campaign to fly 25 top IT specialists from around the world to Estonia and match them with tech companies.

“Estonia did not accidentally happen to have a digital frontrunner status,” says Kersti Kaljulaid in an interview. From her point of view, countries that do not create legal spaces for digital technologies prevent these from flourishing. She also points out the utmost importance of countries starting to provide people and businesses with digital identities: “If there are countries who have an offline culture that is not transparent, it will not change online.”

While the overall number of investments made into Estonian startups declined last year, the total volume of investments grew to €328 million, Kredex and Startup Estonia reported.

The merger of two Estonian companies, which had been competitors for over twenty years, has created the world’s largest specialist manufacturer of thermally modified hardwood and sauna products: Thermory AS.

The former president of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves discussed how the small Baltic state became a world leader in digitization of everything from voting to medicine on Stanford Radio.