E-stonia - A startup country - VPRO documentary - 2015
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9 жыл бұрынIn the very north-east of Europe, on the border of Russia, lies the small country of Estonia. Per capita, Estonia has the most start-ups; internet access is considered a human right and all Estonians have free wifi.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, independent Estonia had a very young government. The country decided to become the first e-society in the world: government services, education and health care are all online; government spending is transparent and everyone owns their own data. However, this digital development makes the country vulnerable to cyber attacks. In 2007, the first cyber war was fought in Estonia. Since then the country has been a forerunner in cyber security.
In London we meet the very first Estonian e-resident, journalist Edward Lucas. We also meet an Iranian-American Skype worker who signs all his contracts with a digital signature which will soon be acknowledged in the entire EU. Featuring: Edward Lucas (journalist, UK), Hamid Tahsildoost (Skype), Toomas Henrik Ilves (president, Estonia), Kristo Käärmann (Transferwise), Slim Sikkut (ICT councillor, Estonia) and captain Uko Valtenberg (chief cyber range, Estonian Defence Forces).
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2015.
© VPRO Backlight April 2015
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Credits:
Director: Shuchen Tan
Research: Marijntje Denters, Sasha Kheyfets
Producer: Jeroen Beumer
Commissioning editors: Marije Meerman, Doke Romeijn
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.
@metaparcel 8 жыл бұрын
I hope the country of Georgia, where my wife is from, starts to learn from Estonia in this regard. Great work from the people of Estonia and their government.
@jimihendrixx11 9 жыл бұрын
President seems so forward thinking & progressive, if only other politicians could be like him.
@infiltr80r 5 жыл бұрын
LOL. He was a drunkard and an opportunist. The stories I know about him...
@truthseeker308 5 жыл бұрын
@@techtubee8041 ^^^Also thinks that people should still be writing on stone tablets, not digital tablets. Too 'progressive'. :P
@discoboy8169 5 жыл бұрын
JImi, you don't have a clue what a buffon and disgrace this american estonian president was really. His presidency ended up in shameful stories and he moved out straight away back to USA, where he belongs, so it is a shame for Estonia really. Other stories is about money and his ex-wife. While a lot a good stuff have been done by government, techinical and other, Estonia is still pointless country, where no economy really and nothing to do for you personal development. It is a village with 1mln of people and touristic spot now.industry is ruined and only some kind of IT outsourcing could be set up, that's for sure.
@mata9154 4 жыл бұрын
@@discoboy8169 Discoboy, you are bit crayzy, even bit more - just fool. :)
@RifayetUday 5 жыл бұрын
Learned a lot about Estonia through this documentary. Love from Bangladesh. Hope to visit Estonia soon.
@lauriehtmaa5132 4 жыл бұрын
im from estonia
@rimasmeleshyus6545 4 жыл бұрын
Great video, So advance country keep doing , I am very happy for Estonia, very digital , many country’s must be learn beautiful education . Thank you so much for the great video. Warm greetings from the garden island of Kauai.
@simplemind7 4 жыл бұрын
You just saved me a trip to the U.K., to incorporate --thank you.
@nomeremannthetameruinkhan 4 жыл бұрын
nice vid good info and the upgrades are very much appreciated. estonians keep rockin'
@sislik4138 4 жыл бұрын
im glad to be an estonian i have always been thinking everyone else was having a good time but now i see we literally have the best stuff ever
@jcreole5222 3 жыл бұрын
"Economic and political success is the best national defense". "I belong to the world". This is a wonderful video! Thank you!
@AudioPervert1 5 жыл бұрын
great effort .. is the climate of 'e-stonia' as grey and rainy as Estonia ?!
@RhapsodeMEDIA 2 жыл бұрын
AMAZING.. INFORMATIVE & BEST ONE || ABSOLUTELY NARRATIVE 💙💙🙏🙏
@ricardoenriqueraguaydoming4958 4 жыл бұрын
amazing!
@jimihendrixx11 9 жыл бұрын
Is it good to move there for startup founders?
@RolandKontson 8 жыл бұрын
I really "hate" the investor hunting part. I prefer when investors get behind projects that grow and emerge thanks to communities and their own efforts.
@mata9154 4 жыл бұрын
@Khurram talk no money - no balls! All we hunt is money. So simple.
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
i liked the investor profiling 23:00 " middle aged men in dark suits with a tie.. " aint no women investing in tech.
@NoGodsNoMasters1885 6 жыл бұрын
I love Tegenlicht. Every single episode is mind-blowing.
@vprodocumentary 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Chris!
@vprodocumentary 6 жыл бұрын
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@NoGodsNoMasters1885 6 жыл бұрын
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@johnhenninger1980 5 жыл бұрын
Literally, famous last word(s): right? Avoid was in there , too.
@rawa7417 5 жыл бұрын
this could be very frightening if the government decides not to allow you to use internet unless you are verified.
@irvinamodia5151 5 жыл бұрын
Internet access is already part of their constitutional right, making that move unconstitutional
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
official stuff does need official and easy way to recognize yourself. i understand that its only used when needed.
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Jeg vet omm batteriet på kretskort et hømm?
@tellingfoxtales 6 жыл бұрын
The discomfort on his face when he's talking about disempowering establishment banks and law firms is beautiful.
@kennethtape3362 5 жыл бұрын
Way to go Estonia !
@keekvideoo 4 жыл бұрын
can I open a stockbroker account with it
@HashimAziz1 2 ай бұрын
Did this just guy enter his password in front of millions of people?
@UsmanKhan-tx6wc 6 жыл бұрын
Hello Plz tell me send some thing about the job how i get e-stonia card residency kindly guide me.... Thanks
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Estonia og brønøysund registret burde jo vere partnere jobber jo med det samme?
@TheLadyjazzy1 6 жыл бұрын
just found out i'm estonian!! I'm from USA Boston Mass
@hassanakhtarkk6085 5 жыл бұрын
How you feel free to start business
@mata9154 4 жыл бұрын
Lucky one! :)
@holoholopainen1627 4 жыл бұрын
What Happened ? How Did You End Up There ?
@arfatstroller3681 4 жыл бұрын
How i get pr of Estonia easily?
@2ndchancehypnotherapy 7 жыл бұрын
i was visiting estonia this year. some local people i spoke with said you have to pay for internet. not sure where you hear about it being free.
@FgFrQg 7 жыл бұрын
To get it at home, yes, you have to pay circa 10€ a month. But you can access free wifi pretty much everywhere: libraries, cafes, trains, busses, hotels etc.
@fashionofjeebo 7 жыл бұрын
you have to pay for it if you want your personal internet everywhere with you without having to connect to different free wifi networks, most people do that because its just a lot more convenient and its pretty cheap.
@Vahvasell 6 жыл бұрын
there is free wifi everywhere, and u dont have to pay for that. i know i live here.
@FrontlineNepal 5 жыл бұрын
@@fashionofjeebo Really?
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Så holler Di på å snoker bak min rygg jeg har ikke bett Di snoke er ikke det åvervåkning?
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Stemmer det i deres data?
@ryanrodrigues6127 6 жыл бұрын
Manual jobs will be exchanged for IT jobs.
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Vertfall 10 år sia jeg så denne
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Jeg har en kompis som sier hann har e ide
@dmanakell 5 жыл бұрын
22:41 You think you will WHAT percent...? What does he say there?
@kolehamilton 5 жыл бұрын
Danny Raul Molina “what percentage of the niche in your market.”
@AmnonMichaelCohen 7 жыл бұрын
The FEES for my Company and Driving Licence as well as My VISA in Canada, which validate me as well, are much, much lower and are actually reasonable, with same benefits - all over the world… Economy based only on electronic software and hardware and electricity, is a very risky way to conduct long term business, but as a fast lane for sharing information or capital, its risks are lower, and the way is more proficient - because the risks of power failure and or cyber interjections plus data/records loss is minimized.
@idealoading 6 жыл бұрын
Amnon Michael Cohen What do you mean you believe e residence is usefull and something different from the identification technics states already have or not. i am doing a research and i need peoples opinion .
@AnuAnu-to8is 6 жыл бұрын
Dear can you please take me to your country.
@mata9154 4 жыл бұрын
You are so 1970, man! Sure, estonians keep your mind as soon as possible. :)
@ShanobyKin 7 жыл бұрын
Architect - drives with Tesla... jelly here...
@mata9154 4 жыл бұрын
Tesla is just architects car. First 10 years, im sure.
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Og Estonia jeg har vert med på å bygge registret. Nor jeg var liten sant 100%sant
@vijay0 6 жыл бұрын
46:35, Persian, US citizen and I belong to this world.. :)
@bobthebuilder2778 4 жыл бұрын
Anything backed or endorsed by Branoff has got to have all kinds strings and attachments to it..
@ervisde3338 3 жыл бұрын
a bit overblown IMO ... all those statements like extending your presence, validating in internet... come on any online bank lets you do operations from anywhere in the world, taxes and other operations can be done online for lot of countries. For example with your national ID in germany or simply with a digital certificate which is much older tech you can do all sort of online services without the need to call yourself e-resident :P. Nothing more than good advertisement for their country though.
@infiltr80r 5 жыл бұрын
He is wrong about the ID card not being used for travel. I've used it at a Finnish airport and they accepted it. It should be accepted across the EU.
@hullmees666 5 жыл бұрын
he meant the e-residency card.
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
then the finnish border guard might have been confused. its not used for travelling nor is it a proof you are eu citizen. but then again he mightve assumed you were a citizen. eu citizens dont need id´s while traveling inside eu, they can travel without passport. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia#Benefits_and_limitations_of_e-residency
@skryonline5825 2 жыл бұрын
Great documentary. Didn't get what startups have to do with nato and russia? Somewhat politiciezed
@skapunkoialternativeliving6522 5 жыл бұрын
I like fake accounts because this way I can hide from the government and the system and not be detected so I like it the way it is today...
@jasonl9266 5 жыл бұрын
Crying!
@uchechukwuumeevuruo2645 4 жыл бұрын
[RAAS] Residency As A Service
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Tilågmed før pst
@theresajohnson9698 4 жыл бұрын
1984 :0(
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Estonia spor alle som snoker på meg alle
@ADDAMB 5 жыл бұрын
PALUKS KA EESTI KEELES .. TERE, MAAILM .. (CHECK OUT MY 100 ALBUMS ON THE WORLDWIDE) .. ROCK & ROLL EI SURE IIALGI ..
@rmp5s 6 жыл бұрын
Does everyone there speak English? (Very good English, at that...) I'm yet to see anyone there in any vids speak Estonian. lol
@vprodocumentary 6 жыл бұрын
Hi! The thing is that most of the viewers here watch the documentaries in English. Also, we communicate in English in the comments section, so most of the people can contribute. :) Are you Estonian?
@rmp5s 6 жыл бұрын
Nope. I'm not. I was just wondering if English is really that common there or if it was all just done for the prospective audience. Looks to be the latter. Thank you!
@vprodocumentary 6 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! Thank you for your insteresting question.
@makhayav5962 6 жыл бұрын
From what I heard from my friend who once studied in Estonia , he said that English is a popular language there and of course the young generation contributes the largest proportion of English speakers
@keneilwelolwane1375 5 жыл бұрын
*interesting
@TiempoNuevo-ew7ty 4 жыл бұрын
Mean while they are ignoring their environment. I see so many spaces there for Food Forests. Where are all of the trees, bushes, berry bushes, flowers. They can become as advanced as they want to but without biodiversity incorporated into their cities... the future will be grim. To me I see a bunch of children pretending to be grown up. The buildings give me the creeps... so characterless, so cold. I couldn't work in this environment.
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Stoler ikke pågoogel eller opera
@eruno_ 8 жыл бұрын
vodka? No.
@eruno_ 8 жыл бұрын
LombardMilitia good beer or whisky is far better choice.
@TheAlexIceman 7 жыл бұрын
Advice: just fucking do it.
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Sekk Billabong
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Kødder ikke jeg så sikkert denne dokumentaren nor det var 0 hits
@erichani1 7 жыл бұрын
president sounds american
@anni-riin3254 6 жыл бұрын
elena richani He lived in America so of course he has an American accent.
@infiltr80r 5 жыл бұрын
Lived most of his life in the US.
@So1ipse 4 жыл бұрын
What's this bollox about 'only way to authenticate is via estonian residency' - anyone can do all the kindergarten stuff of signing documents and hashing them such that the document can only have been created by your own ID, the only thing is that Estonian govt has woken up and learnt to spell gpg or pgp (yes they're /almost/ the same) so that their departments can follow an identity index and authenticate the core ID so that all the follow-on signatures and hashes are then definitively the same (already verified/authenticated) ID. It's only been around since the 90s ... As for saying it's 'better' than a self created one is a matter of degree because the only reason an identity matters is ones history, past achievements and consistent integrity, an Estonian ID is no more trustworthy to me, in fact its massively LESS trustworthy if it's only recently been created - an Estonia ID that's six months old is worth almost nothing (at least to me and probably to anyone capable of analytical thought). On the other hand, a so-called 'random joe-blogs' ID that has been consistently signing valid legitimate helpful responses and carrying out honest dealings with multiple folk for five or ten years has a record I will trust - I don't care what his/her 'wetware' government identity is, I care about his or her record. The only difference between the free-standing reputation based Crypto Identities, and the government centred one, and this is the reason these folk are so desperately pretend that the Estonian system is massively 'safer' is that under their preferred setup the government has central access to the data and can statistically analyse it all and use that analysis to manipulate the populace.
@infiltr80r 5 жыл бұрын
Most of these start-ups milk the government for funding as long as possible and then either - go bankrupt or move HQ out of Estonia. Who loses? The Estonian taxpayer and companies which don't receive any government funding (me). This is also why some Estonians are leaving Estonia permanently.
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
estonians pay low taxes. revenue from capital taxes is one of the lowest in the European Union. they cant even lose much. estonian .gov is known for not taking loans. i doubt those startups even get much from gov. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Estonia
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Estonia deretaråver min siikerhet
@gerassimos.fourlanos 6 жыл бұрын
Their electronic residence card is simply a case of e-bureaucracy. I got one and it never worked (not compatible with this browser, not compatible with that computer and so it goes; if you are an apple user just forget it) and nobody could help me. It is a fallacy to believe that once you digitise something all problems disappear, on the contrary. I learned the hard way that behind a super modernised facade you deal with entrenched Soviet style bureaucracy, utterly hostile to the user.
@jbhann 5 жыл бұрын
Gerassimos Fourlanos ...which apple product and operating system did you try to use to set up your account?
@infiltr80r 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you're a beginner when it comes to computers but yes, it doesn't work as well as it should - multiple browsers either don't work or have severe issues. What f'ing Soviet style bureaucracy are you talking about? You go to the support forum and the employees or anyone else will assist you. I've been to Greece, homeland of unnecessary bureaucracy and corruption.
@jasonl9266 5 жыл бұрын
It's a real country?
@vprodocumentary 5 жыл бұрын
You didn't know?
@thejohanvalli 4 жыл бұрын
Sauna is Finnish thing not Estonian.
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
i remember a feminist commenting that saunas on startup corporate cultures among finno-ugric countries ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_countries ) were sexist because women often didnt want to go the sauna and men made the final deals there.
@luks8405 4 жыл бұрын
No it's EStonia, not EEEEeeeEEeEee-stonia This is already gonna be horrible if you can't even pronounce the name of the country
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
thatsthejoke.jpg
@biplob2071 4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, now a day Skype is not effective that much. It's lost its market and popularity. Lots of apps are much better service than Skype. Oh !! Poor Skype. :(
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Folt tror fan jeg er dumm må le
@PaulJones-oj4kr 5 жыл бұрын
"AI usage, if not AI itself, constitutes the existential threat to humankind and the planet," keeps warning Elon Musk.
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
still elon continues using ai on his self driving cars, a.i. he developes.
@nandan200 4 жыл бұрын
In such a long documentary, I didn't hear a single name apart from Skype. Plus their digital residency seems nothing more than issuing a biometric id card. Seems overhyped
@Zookoll 4 жыл бұрын
Nandan Joshi it’s nr 1 startups per capita european country, there are many more companies with market cap over 100 million. ID card which is not biometric is practically useful as you can sign documents(equal with handwritten) or authenticate yourself, not only for goverment services but for all websites and software that implement that(insurances, bank, tax software, car sales site, etc)
@Redmanticore 4 жыл бұрын
still lightyears ahead of usa, the strange mixture of ineffective and archaic public government with no resources to run it and still using fax machines and papers to everything, and innovative private sector silicon valley. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Residency_of_Estonia#Benefits_and_limitations_of_e-residency E-residency is not related to citizenship and does not give the right to physically enter or reside in Estonia.[8]
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Sjekk denn linken
@fredricful 4 жыл бұрын
Jeg hater kødd
@holoholopainen1627 4 жыл бұрын
Your name is Ködd ?
@biplob2071 4 жыл бұрын
Very unfortunate !!! very shame, "If your mother and father not Estonian, you are not going to be citizen.." 17:09 Ops !!! so I don't find any reason or motivation to invest anything in this country" Sorry to say Estonia, you can't go far Like Skype.
@holoholopainen1627 4 жыл бұрын
You are Welcome to Visit ! I have been there some 50 times ! Everytime learned something NEW !
@fonbosmark2954 5 жыл бұрын
What about estonian accent 🤔 , so fanny
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