Estonia's ambitious e-residency program is gaining traction but still has a way to go

The Estonian e-residency programme is celebrating its two-year anniversary in 2017. Here's an update, courtesy of local journalist Vahur Orrin.
Estonia's ambitious e-residency program is gaining traction but still has a way to go

Editor's note: this is a guest post from Vahur Orrin, an Estonia-based freelance journalist and media consultant.

The Estonian e-residency programme is celebrating its two-year anniversary in 2017, and the idea of digital identity has attracted much attention from all over the world to the small country in northern Europe – even the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (ESCAP) has published a report on the role of Estonia’s e-residency programme in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

More than 16,000 people from different countries have applied for e-residency. It took about one and a half years to reach 10,000 e-residents. The program ambitiously aims to reach 10 million virtual residents by 2025.

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