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Why did Estonia create e-Residency? e-Residency project challenges traditional notions of residency, citizenship, territoriality, and globalization—with potentially profound implications for social theories of the state and citizen networks in the modern era. This paper examines the foundations of the project within the broader context of the Estonian e-state and discusses the main actors and components involved in the creation and functioning of e-Residency. It presents and assessment of the initiative’s benefits and risks to society. Finally, the paper concludes by exploring the broad implications of e-Residency for conventional understandings of the nation state.
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This work draws from unpublished material in the doctoral dissertations of Taavi Kotka and Carlos Ivan Vargas Alvarez del Castillo. It has been previously made online as a working paper [11] in Cyber Studies Working Paper Series of University of Oxford. Authors would like to thank Lucas Kello and Innar Liiv for feedback to early versions of the manuscript.
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Kotka, T., del Castillo, C.I.V.A., Korjus, K. (2016). Estonian e-Residency: Benefits, Risk and Lessons Learned. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44159-7_1
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