E-Residency in Estonia, Part I
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E-Residency in Estonia, Part I
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#2Toomas Hendrick Ilves, the current Estonian President, represents a cybersecurity expert. Things like that can mean a big deal, with respect to policy.
I lived next door, in Riga, Latvia, for several months, in late 1997; during that time, we visited the beautiful city of Tallinn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn . Definitely worth the trip.
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#3Can I and if I can, how easy it is to get e-residency, open bank account and form a company from abroad (I am from Serbia)? Anyone with such an experience and using such company for a startup?
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#4Does anyone know if they will take a US DL, or do you pretty much need a passport? Their form has an option for "other ID" but I'm skeptical that a drivers license is adaquate.
Otherwise there's a consulate in NYC so it would be easy to pick up :)
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#5Toomas Hendrick Ilves, the current Estonian President, represents a cybersecurity expert. Things like that can mean a big deal, with respect to policy. I lived next door, in Riga, Latvia, for several months, in late 1997; during that time, we visited the beautiful city of Tallinn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn . Definitely worth the trip.
His government and many of its representatives, when shown by independent researchers various concerns they had found with their e-voting system[1] were dismissed as having a political agenda for the opposition (who have dismissed online voting). Estonia's CERT also went onto write an article entitled "E-voting is (too) secure"[2].
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#6In every EU country digital signatures have the same validity as physical signatures since a long time (Directive 1999/93/EC). Most company filings are submitted electronically. Every state keeps a list of certified identification providers, which are mutually recognised. This list usually includes some government agencies, the national post service, sometimes banks, professional associations, chambers of commerce, and other private providers.
The identification device is either a smartcard or an RSA dongle. The smartcard can be also used as PKI certificate for remote logine, S/MIME signatures, etc.
What is so special about the Estonian programme?
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#7In every EU country digital signatures have the same validity as physical signatures since a long time (Directive 1999/93/EC). Most company filings are submitted electronically. Every state keeps a list of certified identification providers, which are mutually recognised. This list usually includes some government agencies, the national post service, sometimes banks, professional associations, chambers of commerce, a…
> What is so special about the Estonian programme?
They actually use it.
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#8Can I and if I can, how easy it is to get e-residency, open bank account and form a company from abroad (I am from Serbia)? Anyone with such an experience and using such company for a startup?
Ars Technica did an article on this earlier this year: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/im-now-an-estonian-e...
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#9Does anyone know if they will take a US DL, or do you pretty much need a passport? Their form has an option for "other ID" but I'm skeptical that a drivers license is adaquate. Otherwise there's a consulate in NYC so it would be easy to pick up :)
You need to present a legal travel document (passport or ID-card), driver license won't do as mentioned in an update to the original article.
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#10In every EU country digital signatures have the same validity as physical signatures since a long time (Directive 1999/93/EC). Most company filings are submitted electronically. Every state keeps a list of certified identification providers, which are mutually recognised. This list usually includes some government agencies, the national post service, sometimes banks, professional associations, chambers of commerce, a…
Signing anything in Estonia (at least in tech, where i work), is always done digitally.