1. Taavi Kotka Estonian Government CIO
Trust your engineers
Taavi Kotka
Estonian Government CIO

2. Taavi Kotka Estonian Government CIO
Best CIO in Europe 2014 (
No 12th of The Brightest Business Minds in North-Europe 2016 (Nordic Business Forum)
Special advisor to European Commission vice-president Andrus Ansip on digital single market
Among 100 Most Important Technology Leaders of The World 2016 (
Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 in Estonia (by E&Y)

3. Population: 1.3 Million Size: km² Capital: Tallinn Language: Estonian Member of EU Currency: Euro

7. Economic advice: Sell your shares in Parker.
Today i sign more documents digitally than i do with a pen. Why?
I don’t have to go to the office to sign anything. Contracts, employee papers, bank transfers, petitions, proposals. I don’t even have to be in the country or at a computer, all i need is a mobile phone and a few bars of signal. Nobody waits for a signature, nobody waits for a decision.
How about signing a document for 20 people in 20 different locations. I am pretty sure we don’t even know how to do that anymore. There are some things, like cassette-tapes, faxes and a physical signature, best forgotten.
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8. important decisions no matter what the weather does!
We do not need to wake up early and line up at polling stations as they did in US recently.
Think about it - in democratic countries the election result may depend on the weather on the election day? Bad weather typically leads to lower turnout, which often favors one party over other. How reasonable, trust the merits of your homeland for next 4 years to the weather!!!
We do not mind the weather. We vote online.
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9. X-road

10. A graphical representation of potential interactions between services of X-Road. The network is built from annotations of Web services interfaces in the extent of ca 25%. The green nodes denote data attributes such as the business registri code, date of birth, national identification number etc in the ontology, which was used for semantic annotation of X-Road Web services. The size of nodes represents how many annotations with a particular ontology element were made. Thus we can interpret the size as an indicator for a number of integration points for a particular type of data.

13. VAT return appendix

15. Taavi Kotka Estonian Government CIO
Trust your engineers
Taavi Kotka
Estonian Government CIO

18. 10 million estonians?

21. 40% 45% TRENDS 100M of US workforce will be freelancers by 2020
1. Work shifts from full-time to
free agent employment
2. Remote and cross-border employment increases
Global online freelancing is growing
45%
40%
of US workforce will be freelancers by 2020
100M
new online workers (global) by 2020
Sources: * Intuit 2020 report
** The Global Opportunity in Online Outsourcing (World Bank)

24. Think Big!!!

25. Thank you! Go and check e-Estonia out yourself!
Thank you! Go and check e-Estonia out yourself!