Estonia Goes Digital
Journal: World Policy Journal
Year: 2018

“I’ve never had a Skype conversation that worked properly,” my friend Maria says in response to my enthusiasm about the flagship example of Estonian entrepreneurship. “Welcome to connected Estonia.” It’s my first time in her home country; I’m here to give a talk about the relationship between art and technology. As Maria and I hide from the January sleet, I ask her all about Estonia: Is it true that she learned how to code in elementary school? Does she vote online? Does she know how extraordina