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How to Build a Digital Society from Scratch with Carmen Raal
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On the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, south of Finland and west of Russia, lies the nation of Estonia. Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, this tiny-but-mighty country has embarked on one of the most successful IT modernization efforts in the world.
In less than 30 years, Estonia has gone from technological desert to fully digitized society, in which 94% of residents regularly use the internet and 99% of government services can be accessed online - everything from social benefits, to medical records, to even voting.
This week on The Buzz, we're exploring Estonia's transformative journey, what a digitized government means for the citizen experience, and how the Estonian private and public sectors have interacted to build one of the most technologically convenient nations on Earth. We're joined by Carmen Raal, a Digital Transformation Advisor at the e-Estonia Briefing Center, an NGO formed to share Estonia's digital expertise with the rest of the world.
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