In Estonia, children are given a unique ID number and added to the grid from the moment they’re born. It’s all part of the country’s digital identity system—and the idea is catching on.
TALLINN, Estonia—Karoli Hindriks was in a hotel in Tokyo when she cast her vote in Estonia’s national election four years ago. She started her company, cross-border careers portal Jobbatical in 2014, over an omelette and cappuccino from a cafe here in Tallinn. And she filed her 2017 tax return in just a few minutes from an airport lounge in Seoul.
Ms. Hindriks is a citizen of cyberspace, recognized across public- and private-sector services in her home country by her digital identity and not her physical presence. With all her data shared when it’s needed, Ms. Hindriks’s pharmacy knows instantly what her doctor prescribed. Her tax return is automatically generated. And her identity determines access to almost everything, from her 6-year-old daughter’s kindergarten website to her bank account.
“If I log in to anything that is related to being a human here, I use the same identity,” Ms. Hindriks says. “You can’t imagine how spoiled we are with that. When you try to do something in another country, then you start to understand how privileged we are.”
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