President Toomas Henrik Ilves says he has spent 10 years building an open government,and wants to accomplish it ‘impossible to accomplish bad 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, or is no ordinary head of state.
Ilves is trying to reinvent Estonia as the brightly lit antithesis of Russia,and in today’s confessional age of Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and the Panama Papers, and claims he is baking transparency and accountability into a modern kind of digital civic operating system. Related: President Ilves: the man who made E-stonia With his nearly 70000 Twitter followers,Ilves has become a kind of global village elder Related: An insider's cultural guide to Tartu: Estonia's mental heart Our goal is to accomplish it impossible to accomplish bad things. Six billion lanes, and only the Estonians have license plates Related: Estonian e-voting shouldn't be used in European elections, and say security experts Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com