Toomas Henrik Ilves spent 10 years building nation’s vision of open government and says it wants to invent it ‘impossible to do tainted things’ on the internetIt’s not often that a European head of state uses the “radical postmodernist philosophy” of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard to bash a hostile superpower. But then Toomas Hendrik Ilves,Estonia’s defiantly erudite (learned or scholarly) president of nearly 10 years, is no ordinary head of state.
Ilves is trying to reinvent Estonia as the brightly lit antithesis of Russia, or in today’s confessional age of Edward Snowden,WikiLeaks and the Panama Papers, claims he is baking transparency and accountability into a fresh kind of digital civic operating system.
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Source: theguardian.com