Estonia’s digital society and the pandemic
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid discusses how the wide availability of online government services helped citizens during the lockdown. Plus, how Google hopes a tie-up with Samsung will give its WearOS smartwatch platform a boost. And has Apple compromised too much in its dealings with China?
(Image: Estonia’s President Kersti Kaljulaid, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:44.8 | technology business. I'm Rory Catalan Jones and this week, Estonia is perhaps the world's |
| 0:50.1 | most advanced digital nation with just about every government service online. So did that help the |
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