Three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps in a small bed at an Estonian hospital. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop computer. “Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says, as he lifts his identification card into the card reader. His wife, Olga, looks on. And just like that, Oskar is Estonia’s newest citizen. No paper. No time spent standing in a line. Estonia has launched a project to make government administration completely digital. The goal is to reduce the size of the government work force, open up the decision-making process and fuel economic growth. As more countries turn to online government services, Estonia’s experiment provides a look at how interacting with the state might be for future generations. Need medicine? Reach for a computer and send an email or text message to a doctor. Need help from the local government? There are no lines on websites. As for education, parents can see whether their children’s homework was done on time. Estonia has created a single system that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures. It provides paperless communications for both the government and private industry.
Title: Estonian Government Aims to End Paperwork
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says, as he lifts his identification card into the card reader.</span> <span data-start-time='24604' data-end-time='28583'>His wife, Olga, looks on.</span> <span data-start-time='28583' data-end-time='35542'>And just like that, Oskar is Estonia’s newest citizen.</span> <span data-start-time='35542' data-end-time='37500'>No paper.</span> <span data-start-time='37500' data-end-time='40688'>No time spent standing in a line.</span> <span data-start-time='40688' data-end-time='49271'>Estonia has launched a project to make government administration completely digital.</span> <span data-start-time='49271' data-end-time='60458'>The goal is to reduce the size of the government work force, open up the decision-making process and fuel economic growth.</span> <span data-start-time='60458' data-end-time='75833'>As more countries turn to online government services, Estonia’s experiment provides a look at how interacting with the state might be for future generations.</span> <span data-start-time='75833' data-end-time='78229'>Need medicine?</span> <span data-start-time='78229' data-end-time='83938'>Reach for a computer and send an email or text message to a doctor.</span> <span data-start-time='83938' data-end-time='87479'>Need help from the local government?</span> <span data-start-time='87479' data-end-time='90500'>There are no lines on websites.</span> <span data-start-time='90500' data-end-time='98083'>As for education, parents can see whether their children’s homework was done on time.</span> <span data-start-time='98083' data-end-time='107646'>Estonia has created a single system that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures.</span> <span data-start-time='107646' data-end-time='115146'>It provides paperless communications for both the government and private industry.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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