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Interviews

 16.07.2017Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph

 10.07.2017Igaunijas prezidente: katram pirmklasniekam jāzina valsts valoda

 03.07.2017"La piccola Estonia alla guida dell’Ue, la presidente: «Una rivoluzione della burocrazia digitale per Bruxelles»",

Corriere della Sera

 03.07.2017"PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW — KERSTI KALJULAID, PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA … ", Politico

 06.06.2017Estijos prezidentė: Europa niekada nesusimovė ir nenuvylė nė vienos narės

 30.05.2017"Прэзыдэнтка Эстоніі пра Беларусь у Эўразьвязе: «Гэта магчыма, калі паглядзець у далейшую

будучыню»", Радыё Свабода

 09.05.2017"Estonian president: In the face of Brexit, unity will be at the heart of our EU presidency", EurActiv

 08.05.2017"Macron Will Find a Potential Ally in Estonia’s President", The Wall Street Journal

 10.04.2017"Leuthard für Arbeitsgespräche in Estland", SRF

 10.04.2017"NATO's Build-Up in East Cuts Fear of Conflict, Estonia Says", Bloomberg

Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state

doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The
Telegraph
16.07.2017

By Kersti Kaljulaid

As the President of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has
a state. And this position has made me question whether the state as we know it today
is fit for the 21st century.

Traditionally nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost

everything people need from society dependent on working in one country, every day
of the week, all months of the year and for at least three decades to receive these
social guarantees. In creating free movement of people, the web has only got more
complex, but never disappeared. The same old story of where you live, where you work
and where you are entitled to get the social benefits.

The world around all these political debates is radically changing, industrial jobs are
disappearing. They will continue to disappear, because of the productivity gains that
come from choosing to invest in machinery and automation over people. Thus, social
models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be
viable. It is only in Alice in Wonderland that the cat can leave while the grin lingers. In
the real world when the cat is gone, the grin vanishes with it. Put simply, as the
industrial workforce shrinks – just as we once saw happen in agriculture – the social
model founded on it will go, too.

My son, an IT specialist, works for several companies at a same time. In some of them
he is an owner, in others an employee. When he travels to others states for months at
a time for work, he normally rents out his home assets – a flat, a car, sometimes even
his dog (a well-trained Labrador who can keep lonely older people company).

Another man I know, a talented craftsman making world class bows and arrows, lives in
rural Estonia. He came from South Africa. He did not lose any of his clients, even if he
now makes his products at least 100 kilometres from his nearest customer.
And, of course, we all know how some people make a living posting on YouTube and
other global broadcasting networks.

There are more and more people who work totally independently from any one
company, any one country or any singular social model.

Old jobs are disappearing. New ones are emerging. Some are truly new, products of the
digital age. Others are reformulations of the old: the craftsman with his bows and the
jester on YouTube, who gain leverage from the global digital space. 100 years ago, the
craftsmen needed to travel local fairs to trade their goods. In the 20th century, deals
with a souvenir shop or a big retailer were struck. Now, they are able to reach all their
global clients cheaply, efficiently and at low cost.

Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities are making people more
independent than they were before. Fewer and fewer people will work for one company
at a time or in the same country all the time. More and more people work remotely
across borders.

This poses difficult questions for our joint liberal, democratic societies, accustomed to
guaranteeing our people education, healthcare, security, and so on.

Which country's social and education system has to provide for a global worker? Where
must it provide it? How can states tax these free spirits, our citizens? We have not yet
figured out how to regulate and tax multinational companies, how on earth will we
manage with our citizens going individually global?

Yet manage we must. We must figure out how to offer people the security that makes
them want to remain taxpayers. We must overcome geography and ingrown habits of
offering regular social support for regular tax payments – usually coming from a
company with a local address.

If we fail, we will lose the attention of our citizens. For example: traditionally,
governments have held a monopoly over the provision of safe identification by issuing
passports. Today, with national governments having been late to cyberspace, there are
alternatives. Google now offers a digital time-stamped identification to its users. There
are very few countries who can provide the same service (Estonia is one of them).

Similarly, if governments cling to the old industrial model of social guarantees for too
long, someone else will step in. We might lose our universal systems of redistribution,
thus making states in many ways obsolete. To avoid this fate, we must think how to
 offer our global citizens a safe harbour, an opportunity to teach their children, and
receive social services and healthcare wherever they chose to live or work.

Thinking from this 21st century perspective, Brexit loses its relevance. We are still all in
it together. We must respond to our citizens' changing opportunities and habits. It must
all become rather more flexible than we know it in the current common market. Yes, we
must have intermediate solutions for this and maybe the next decade. But if we get
stuck in hammering out those short-term perspectives, we might find ourselves in the
situation where most services traditionally provided by the sovereign state have moved
elsewhere, leaving the state all but obsolete for the majority of its citizens.

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 16.07.2017Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph

 10.07.2017Igaunijas prezidente: katram pirmklasniekam jāzina valsts valoda

 03.07.2017"La piccola Estonia alla guida dell’Ue, la presidente: «Una rivoluzione della burocrazia digitale per Bruxelles»",

Corriere della Sera

 03.07.2017"PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW — KERSTI KALJULAID, PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA … ", Politico

 06.06.2017Estijos prezidentė: Europa niekada nesusimovė ir nenuvylė nė vienos narės

 30.05.2017"Прэзыдэнтка Эстоніі пра Беларусь у Эўразьвязе: «Гэта магчыма, калі паглядзець у далейшую

будучыню»", Радыё Свабода

 09.05.2017"Estonian president: In the face of Brexit, unity will be at the heart of our EU presidency", EurActiv

 08.05.2017"Macron Will Find a Potential Ally in Estonia’s President", The Wall Street Journal

 10.04.2017"Leuthard für Arbeitsgespräche in Estland", SRF

 10.04.2017"NATO's Build-Up in East Cuts Fear of Conflict, Estonia Says", Bloomberg

Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state

doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The
Telegraph
16.07.2017

By Kersti Kaljulaid

As the President of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has
a state. And this position has made me question whether the state as we know it today
is fit for the 21st century.

Traditionally nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost

everything people need from society dependent on working in one country, every day
of the week, all months of the year and for at least three decades to receive these
social guarantees. In creating free movement of people, the web has only got more
complex, but never disappeared. The same old story of where you live, where you work
and where you are entitled to get the social benefits.

The world around all these political debates is radically changing, industrial jobs are
disappearing. They will continue to disappear, because of the productivity gains that
come from choosing to invest in machinery and automation over people. Thus, social
models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be
viable. It is only in Alice in Wonderland that the cat can leave while the grin lingers. In
the real world when the cat is gone, the grin vanishes with it. Put simply, as the
industrial workforce shrinks – just as we once saw happen in agriculture – the social
model founded on it will go, too.

My son, an IT specialist, works for several companies at a same time. In some of them
he is an owner, in others an employee. When he travels to others states for months at
a time for work, he normally rents out his home assets – a flat, a car, sometimes even
his dog (a well-trained Labrador who can keep lonely older people company).

Another man I know, a talented craftsman making world class bows and arrows, lives in
rural Estonia. He came from South Africa. He did not lose any of his clients, even if he
now makes his products at least 100 kilometres from his nearest customer.

And, of course, we all know how some people make a living posting on YouTube and
other global broadcasting networks.

There are more and more people who work totally independently from any one
company, any one country or any singular social model.

Old jobs are disappearing. New ones are emerging. Some are truly new, products of the
digital age. Others are reformulations of the old: the craftsman with his bows and the
jester on YouTube, who gain leverage from the global digital space. 100 years ago, the
craftsmen needed to travel local fairs to trade their goods. In the 20th century, deals
with a souvenir shop or a big retailer were struck. Now, they are able to reach all their
global clients cheaply, efficiently and at low cost.

Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities are making people more
independent than they were before. Fewer and fewer people will work for one company
at a time or in the same country all the time. More and more people work remotely
across borders.
This poses difficult questions for our joint liberal, democratic societies, accustomed to
guaranteeing our people education, healthcare, security, and so on.

Which country's social and education system has to provide for a global worker? Where
must it provide it? How can states tax these free spirits, our citizens? We have not yet
figured out how to regulate and tax multinational companies, how on earth will we
manage with our citizens going individually global?

Yet manage we must. We must figure out how to offer people the security that makes
them want to remain taxpayers. We must overcome geography and ingrown habits of
offering regular social support for regular tax payments – usually coming from a
company with a local address.

If we fail, we will lose the attention of our citizens. For example: traditionally,
governments have held a monopoly over the provision of safe identification by issuing
passports. Today, with national governments having been late to cyberspace, there are
alternatives. Google now offers a digital time-stamped identification to its users. There
are very few countries who can provide the same service (Estonia is one of them).

Similarly, if governments cling to the old industrial model of social guarantees for too
long, someone else will step in. We might lose our universal systems of redistribution,
thus making states in many ways obsolete. To avoid this fate, we must think how to
offer our global citizens a safe harbour, an opportunity to teach their children, and
receive social services and healthcare wherever they chose to live or work.

Thinking from this 21st century perspective, Brexit loses its relevance. We are still all in
it together. We must respond to our citizens' changing opportunities and habits. It must
all become rather more flexible than we know it in the current common market. Yes, we
must have intermediate solutions for this and maybe the next decade. But if we get
stuck in hammering out those short-term perspectives, we might find ourselves in the
situation where most services traditionally provided by the sovereign state have moved
elsewhere, leaving the state all but obsolete for the majority of its citizens.

Link to the original article.

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ESTENGRUS PRESIDENT OFFICIAL DUTIES MEDIA REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA Press
Releases Press releases from the Office of the President Statements Statements by the
President of the Republic, including joint statements issued by the President of the
Republic, the President of the Riigikogu and the Prime Minister Interviews, Articles
President Kaljulaid in the Estonian and foreign media Bibliography The President’s
speeches, articles and interviews published in print, also overviews of the President’s
public activities and publications about him Videos Video recordings of presidential
speeches and public messages, interviews and other events Photo album Photo albums
arranged by event Interviews 16.07.2017 Our citizens are going digital and global. If
the state doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph 10.07.2017 Igaunijas
prezidente: katram pirmklasniekam jāzina valsts valoda 03.07.2017 "La piccola Estonia
alla guida dell’Ue, la presidente: «Una rivoluzione della burocrazia digitale per
Bruxelles»", Corriere della Sera 03.07.2017 "PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW — KERSTI
KALJULAID, PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA … ", Politico 06.06.2017 Estijos prezidentė:
Europa niekada nesusimovė ir nenuvylė nė vienos narės 30.05.2017 "Прэзыдэнтка
Эстоніі пра Беларусь у Эўразьвязе: «Гэта магчыма, калі паглядзець у далейшую
будучыню»", Радыё Свабода 09.05.2017 "Estonian president: In the face of Brexit,
unity will be at the heart of our EU presidency", EurActiv 08.05.2017 "Macron Will Find
a Potential Ally in Estonia’s President", The Wall Street Journal 10.04.2017 "Leuthard
für Arbeitsgespräche in Estland", SRF 10.04.2017 "NATO's Build-Up in East Cuts Fear of
Conflict, Estonia Says", Bloomberg Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state
doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph 16.07.2017 By Kersti Kaljulaid
As the President of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has
a state. And this position has made me question whether the state as we know it today
is fit for the 21st century. Traditionally nations have harnessed taxpayers to their
territory by making almost everything people need from society dependent on working
in one country, every day of the week, all months of the year and for at least three
decades to receive these social guarantees. In creating free movement of people, the
web has only got more complex, but never disappeared. The same old story of where
you live, where you work and where you are entitled to get the social benefits. The
world around all these political debates is radically changing, industrial jobs are
disappearing. They will continue to disappear, because of the productivity gains that
come from choosing to invest in machinery and automation over people. Thus, social
models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be
viable. It is only in Alice in Wonderland that the cat can leave while the grin lingers. In
the real world when the cat is gone, the grin vanishes with it. Put simply, as the
industrial workforce shrinks – just as we once saw happen in agriculture – the social
model founded on it will go, too. My son, an IT specialist, works for several companies
at a same time. In some of them he is an owner, in others an employee. When he
travels to others states for months at a time for work, he normally rents out his home
assets – a flat, a car, sometimes even his dog (a well-trained Labrador who can keep
lonely older people company). Another man I know, a talented craftsman making world
class bows and arrows, lives in rural Estonia. He came from South Africa. He did not
lose any of his clients, even if he now makes his products at least 100 kilometres from
his nearest customer. And, of course, we all know how some people make a living
posting on YouTube and other global broadcasting networks. There are more and more
people who work totally independently from any one company, any one country or any
singular social model. Old jobs are disappearing. New ones are emerging. Some are
truly new, products of the digital age. Others are reformulations of the old: the
craftsman with his bows and the jester on YouTube, who gain leverage from the global
digital space. 100 years ago, the craftsmen needed to travel local fairs to trade their
goods. In the 20th century, deals with a souvenir shop or a big retailer were struck.
Now, they are able to reach all their global clients cheaply, efficiently and at low cost.
Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities are making people more
independent than they were before. Fewer and fewer people will work for one company
at a time or in the same country all the time. More and more people work remotely
across borders. This poses difficult questions for our joint liberal, democratic societies,
accustomed to guaranteeing our people education, healthcare, security, and so on.
Which country's social and education system has to provide for a global worker? Where
must it provide it? How can states tax these free spirits, our citizens? We have not yet
figured out how to regulate and tax multinational companies, how on earth will we
manage with our citizens going individually global? Yet manage we must. We must
figure out how to offer people the security that makes them want to remain taxpayers.
We must overcome geography and ingrown habits of offering regular social support for
regular tax payments – usually coming from a company with a local address. If we fail,
we will lose the attention of our citizens. For example: traditionally, governments have
held a monopoly over the provision of safe identification by issuing passports. Today,
with national governments having been late to cyberspace, there are alternatives.
Google now offers a digital time-stamped identification to its users. There are very few
countries who can provide the same service (Estonia is one of them). Similarly, if
governments cling to the old industrial model of social guarantees for too long,
someone else will step in. We might lose our universal systems of redistribution, thus
making states in many ways obsolete. To avoid this fate, we must think how to offer
our global citizens a safe harbour, an opportunity to teach their children, and receive
social services and healthcare wherever they chose to live or work. Thinking from this
21st century perspective, Brexit loses its relevance. We are still all in it together. We
must respond to our citizens' changing opportunities and habits. It must all become
rather more flexible than we know it in the current common market. Yes, we must have
intermediate solutions for this and maybe the next decade. But if we get stuck in
hammering out those short-term perspectives, we might find ourselves in the situation
where most services traditionally provided by the sovereign state have moved
elsewhere, leaving the state all but obsolete for the majority of its citizens. Link to the
original article. Office of the President tel: 631 6202vpinfo[at]vpk.eeRSSSitemap
ESTENGRUS PRESIDENT OFFICIAL DUTIES MEDIA REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA Press
Releases Press releases from the Office of the President Statements Statements by the
President of the Republic, including joint statements issued by the President of the
Republic, the President of the Riigikogu and the Prime Minister Interviews, Articles
President Kaljulaid in the Estonian and foreign media Bibliography The President’s
speeches, articles and interviews published in print, also overviews of the President’s
public activities and publications about him Videos Video recordings of presidential
speeches and public messages, interviews and other events Photo album Photo albums
arranged by event Interviews 16.07.2017 Our citizens are going digital and global. If
the state doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph 10.07.2017 Igaunijas
prezidente: katram pirmklasniekam jāzina valsts valoda 03.07.2017 "La piccola Estonia
alla guida dell’Ue, la presidente: «Una rivoluzione della burocrazia digitale per
Bruxelles»", Corriere della Sera 03.07.2017 "PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW — KERSTI
KALJULAID, PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA … ", Politico 06.06.2017 Estijos prezidentė:
Europa niekada nesusimovė ir nenuvylė nė vienos narės 30.05.2017 "Прэзыдэнтка
Эстоніі пра Беларусь у Эўразьвязе: «Гэта магчыма, калі паглядзець у далейшую
будучыню»", Радыё Свабода 09.05.2017 "Estonian president: In the face of Brexit,
unity will be at the heart of our EU presidency", EurActiv 08.05.2017 "Macron Will Find
a Potential Ally in Estonia’s President", The Wall Street Journal 10.04.2017 "Leuthard
für Arbeitsgespräche in Estland", SRF 10.04.2017 "NATO's Build-Up in East Cuts Fear of
Conflict, Estonia Says", Bloomberg Our citizens are going digital and global. If the state
doesn't keep up it will become obsolete, The Telegraph 16.07.2017 By Kersti Kaljulaid
As the President of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has
a state. And this position has made me question whether the state as we know it today
is fit for the 21st century. Traditionally nations have harnessed taxpayers to their
territory by making almost everything people need from society dependent on working
in one country, every day of the week, all months of the year and for at least three
decades to receive these social guarantees. In creating free movement of people, the
web has only got more complex, but never disappeared. The same old story of where
you live, where you work and where you are entitled to get the social benefits. The
world around all these political debates is radically changing, industrial jobs are
disappearing. They will continue to disappear, because of the productivity gains that
come from choosing to invest in machinery and automation over people. Thus, social
models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be
viable. It is only in Alice in Wonderland that the cat can leave while the grin lingers. In
the real world when the cat is gone, the grin vanishes with it. Put simply, as the
industrial workforce shrinks – just as we once saw happen in agriculture – the social
model founded on it will go, too. My son, an IT specialist, works for several companies
at a same time. In some of them he is an owner, in others an employee. When he
travels to others states for months at a time for work, he normally rents out his home
assets – a flat, a car, sometimes even his dog (a well-trained Labrador who can keep
lonely older people company). Another man I know, a talented craftsman making world
class bows and arrows, lives in rural Estonia. He came from South Africa. He did not
lose any of his clients, even if he now makes his products at least 100 kilometres from
his nearest customer. And, of course, we all know how some people make a living
posting on YouTube and other global broadcasting networks. There are more and more
people who work totally independently from any one company, any one country or any
singular social model. Old jobs are disappearing. New ones are emerging. Some are
truly new, products of the digital age. Others are reformulations of the old: the
craftsman with his bows and the jester on YouTube, who gain leverage from the global
digital space. 100 years ago, the craftsmen needed to travel local fairs to trade their
goods. In the 20th century, deals with a souvenir shop or a big retailer were struck.
Now, they are able to reach all their global clients cheaply, efficiently and at low cost.
Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities are making people more
independent than they were before. Fewer and fewer people will work for one company
at a time or in the same country all the time. More and more people work remotely
across borders. This poses difficult questions for our joint liberal, democratic societies,
accustomed to guaranteeing our people education, healthcare, security, and so on.
Which country's social and education system has to provide for a global worker? Where
must it provide it? How can states tax these free spirits, our citizens? We have not yet
figured out how to regulate and tax multinational companies, how on earth will we
manage with our citizens going individually global? Yet manage we must. We must
figure out how to offer people the security that makes them want to remain taxpayers.
We must overcome geography and ingrown habits of offering regular social support for
regular tax payments – usually coming from a company with a local address. If we fail,
we will lose the attention of our citizens. For example: traditionally, governments have
held a monopoly over the provision of safe identification by issuing passports. Today,
with national governments having been late to cyberspace, there are alternatives.
Google now offers a digital time-stamped identification to its users. There are very few
countries who can provide the same service (Estonia is one of them). Similarly, if
governments cling to the old industrial model of social guarantees for too long,
someone else will step in. We might lose our universal systems of redistribution, thus
making states in many ways obsolete. To avoid this fate, we must think how to offer
our global citizens a safe harbour, an opportunity to teach their children, and receive
social services and healthcare wherever they chose to live or work. Thinking from this
21st century perspective, Brexit loses its relevance. We are still all in it together. We
must respond to our citizens' changing opportunities and habits. It must all become
rather more flexible than we know it in the current common market. Yes, we must have
intermediate solutions for this and maybe the next decade. But if we get stuck in
hammering out those short-term perspectives, we might find ourselves in the situation
where most services traditionally provided by the sovereign state have moved
elsewhere, leaving the state all but obsolete for the majority of its citizens. Link to the
original article. Office of the President tel: 631 6202vpinfo[at]vpk.eeRSSSitemap
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