Estonia Revisited: Voting on the Internet

Back in June in this blog, I extased about my visit to Tallinn, capitol of Estonia. A beautiful medival city in a tiny Baltic state that was joyously grasping Life after liberation from the greyness of Russian occupancy.

Since that visit, I have learned that Estonia is considered the ‘Hong Kong of Europe’ for its forward-looking, distinctly non-European approach to facilitating entrepreneurship and encouraging innovation with acts, not words.

Today, I have just learned that Estonia will become the first country in the world to ever have a national parlamentary election completely held over the internet.

More here and here (in french)

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