REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Estonian echoes — SA’s digital public infrastructure looks like it was made in Estonia
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While Estonia is the current model of a modern e-governance capital, it’s hard to listen to local tech leaders talk a big game about digital sovereignty when you know that the technology is imported.
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