Estonia has an electronic land registry that has transformed the real estate market, reducing land transfers from three months to a little over a week.7 In the last few years, Estonia has launched its e-Residency program, where anyone in the world can apply for a “transnational digital identity” and authentication to access secure services, encrypt, verify, and sign documents digitally. An entrepreneur anywhere in the world can register his or her company online in fewer than twenty minutes and administer the company online. These capabilities contribute to Estonia’s image as a digital
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