ESTONIA

My trip to E-stonia in 2017 left a deep mark on me: While tourists were strolling through medieval alleys of it’s capital Tallinn, the Estonian government was quickly proceeding towards the goal of paperless administration. Compared with my own country being stuck in paper-clad bureaucracy and time-wrapped internet speeds I felt like I had come to the world of tomorrow. Even the simple table tennis plate in the garden of the KUMU art museum had been converted into a wifi spot, as well as the old wind mills on the , verwunschenen Baltic Sea island of Huhu. Let’s talk about the Citizen Card. It works as identity card, voting card, driver’s license, health card and even as a card to collect bonus points in your local super market. Estonians, I learned, had invented Skype. To keep all data safe from their great neighbour in the East they were also planning to store a backup of all data in Luxembourg. Estonians are smart people.