Estonia made history in December 2014 by starting the first supranational e-residency project in the world – a state-issued, secure digital identity for non-residents that allows digital authentication and the digital signing of documents – thus moving towards the idea of a country without borders. The Estonian e-residency programme allows anyone in the world to become a digital resident of Estoni
a. Not only can Estonian e-residents easily found and manage Estonian companies online, they can also digitally authenticate themselves and sign documents with an electronic ID card and a PIN. Estonia’s first e-resident was the Economist’s senior editor Edward Lucas, who called the E-resident’s card an “Estonian Express” that offers a degree of security, convenience and privacy that no other national ID scheme does. In a short period of time, over 10,000 foreign entrepreneurs, professionals and media figures have followed Lucas’s suit to become Estonian e-residents, among them Shinzō Abe – the Prime Minister of Japan, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. Please note that this page is not an official page of e-residency project, but is run by Estonian World, a global independent online magazine, founded in London in 2012 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. www.estonianworld.com is rated as the number one Estonia authority by the Paris-based agency, Agilience.
