Reflections after my visit to Estonia
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| Entrance to ICT Demo Center, Ülemisty City |
Now I’m back home after my short visit to Estonia. It felt like a happy-injection from the future to be there. Yes, there are still so many problems for them to solve but the spirit is optimistic and they are doing a great job over there. The overall feeling is that everyone is so young and they have a fresh attitude towards new technic. Their digital ID-cards and the invention Skype are good examples of that.
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| I saw a mac! The moving guy is Krister Kalda from EAS – Estonian Enterprise |
I think that they are really skilled in Estonia and they are young and hungry to be part of the worlds development, in fact, they want to be an active and important part. Compared to Sweden we have a lot of that too, but we don’t have Estonias hunger, the deep desire to show the world! Of course, some people in Sweden have it, but with supporting surroundings filled with people who are also optimistic and heading for the future, the power is so much stronger.
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| The building next to ICT Democenter. We had lunch here. |
It’s time for everyone to think of Estonia as a new Silicon Valley, a place for exciting technological development and forget ideas about Estonia as a place for producing cheap goods – like I think is what comes up first when Swedes think about business and Estonia.
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| Entrance to Tehnopol. Skype was developed here! |
One of the most inspiring visits during our trip was at Garage48. They have a model for ”innovation-race” that I find very interesting. I will try to see if there is any interest for it here on Gotland. It would be so cool if we can have more connections between Gotland and Estonia.
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| This small creatures was at floor at Garage48! |
You can see more of my photos here, but the text is in Swedish.
