The Estonian E-System

"Do what we did" is the only partly tongue-in-cheek advice of Estonia's president to countries ogling that one's meteoric rise to technological fluency. When Estonia was freed from the Soviet Union in 1991, less than half its people had a telephone line. In 2007, it became the first country to allow online voting in a general election; 95% of Estonians file their annual tax return online ~ in about 5 minutes; free Wi-Fi is everywhere; and the high-tech industry makes up about 15% of GDP: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/economist-explains-21?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709