WHEN WILL WE GET OUT OF THEIR WAY ?

It is only a matter of time before most of our Start Ups set up subsidiaries in Estonia , the way 12,000 ( from all over the World ) has done - including our very own Reliance Jio - which still retains its Start Up culture !

It costs just $ 150 to get a " E Residency " in this country - which , I call , our " Gateway to the World "

Can you think of any reason why India ( which prides itself on being a Software Super Power ) , cannot match the progress of this tiny nation when it comes to INNOVATION ?

I can

Our Babus who will use every trick of their trade to hold down our Start Ups / Entrepreneurs from growing / flourishing !

Things will only get worse when the new E Commerce Policy gets announced !

Astonishing  Estonia

[ Became independent in 1991 / Population of 1.3 million as compared to 1.51 million population of Mumbai Suburb Andheri ]

Following news reports appeared recently :

How Estonia is plotting to end bureaucracy 

In Estonia, marriage and divorce are among the very few government interactions that can’t be executed online 

Lessons  from  Estonia :

·      “Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says with gravity as he inserts his ID card into the card reader.

     And just like that, Oskar is Estonia’s newest citizen. No paper. No fuss.

·      Ambitious project to make government administration completely digital to reduce bureaucracy, increase transparency and boost economic growth

·      Estonia has created one platform that supports electronic authentication and digital signatures to enable paperless communications across both the private and public sectors

·      Citizens can monitor their data and see if any government or private institution accesses it

·      The platform is underpinned by software called X-Road, a decentralized data exchange system that links databases

·      The leadership looked for an industry where the country could compete. They decided on information technology and the internet

·      More than 99 percent of Estonia’s banking transactions now take place online

·      “If someone really wants my information, they will get it anyway,” said Lunde. “If they can get Hillary’s emails, they can get mine.”

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Way to imbibe those lessons in India :

·      No paper. No fuss

           [     VotesApp     //       I  SIN  >  <  U  SIN   ]

·      Reduce Bureaucracy

          [   GSTIN on Sign Boards ? How about other 16 ?   ]

                      

·      Increase Transparency

          [  Thank You , Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji   ]

                

·      Boost Economic Growth

         [  Foundation of Economy  ]

                

·      Electronic  Authentication

          [  #Aadhar-the-Irreversible   ]

                          

·      Citizens can monitor their data

         [  Only Answer : a Statutory Warning  ]

                            

·      X-Road  

         [  Break-down the Silos !   ]

                        

·      Information technology

          [  Can Indian IT Re-invent itself ?  ]

                 

·      Internet

          [  “  BACK FACTORY " OF THE WORLD ?  ]

                  

·      They can get mine  

          [  Alice in the Wonderland of Privacy !  ]

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Related  Readings :

·      Estonia : Our Gateway to World ?                  [  13  March  2018 

·      #Reliance Jio : the Mighty Start Up                 [  21  May  2018  ]

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29  Dec  2018

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