Digital government where citizens conduct nearly all
public services online where you never had to fill out paperwork again… is this a dream… NO! this is Estonia
1. What do you think about Digital government in Estonia?
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or
maybe already is implemented?
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
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There are risks, sure. There is room for improvement, sure. I'd say it is still in an experiment phase.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
Not in a close future for sure.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
Yes obviously.. the elections can be cheated easily in the basic example, and if the election got voted for the wrong president, or it could also be dangerous for self-identity and stuffs.
I don't know, i think it'a partly already implemented but i would love to see it in Poland.
I can't think of any disadvantages for now. It's an amazing concept.
2. I remember our clown Zelenskiy bragging about digital government. As always, he only talks, nothing involving actual progress is possible in Ukraine while he and his party are ruling the country. So no digital government for us!
3. When it comes to public services - I think it’s a great idea. However I don’t think that the most part of the government can be digitalised. The main reason for it is possible exposure to malware and just bad people. I remember virus “Petia” that shut down all ATMs in Ukraine that had Windows as their system software :).
There is no digital government in my country, but various electronic and internet functionalities, e.g. e-prescription for medicines, are slowly being implemented.
This solution has a lot of advantages such as simplicity, ease, unlimited possibilities. Unfortunately, this is a computer system, so there is certainly a lot of programmers' work on it; it certainly costs a lot and is vulnerable to hacker attacks.
2. In Poland there are already some improvements, but certainly not at the same level as in Estonia. Long time will need to pass for such solutions to be safe and really useful in our country.
3. The advantages are certainly simpler solving all formalities, greater transparency and better control. If everything was 100% digitalized, a system failure could have fatal consequences to all of us.
Sounds very interesting but also very dangerous. On the one hand, I like that almost all administrative matters can be handled online. On the other hand, I know that there are no 100% safe systems.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
More and more such systems are being developed which, for example, allow access to data about our cars, online identification by a trusted profile or e-prescription. However, they all form a separate whole and are not connected to each other. I think that in the near future there will not be a single system that will enable all administrative matters to be dealt with, but gradually newer and newer subsystems will be implemented that will enable only one activity.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
The advantage is definitely the convenience of such a solution. The disadvantage is its security, it is enough that the country is deprived of the Internet and becomes virtually defenceless, as all services rely on this system. I also see the danger of excluding those who are not very good at new technologies.
Effective, amusing, well done, Estonia. This is double the impressive judging by the fact that this country not so long ago was the part of one of the biggest kistakes in history, mainly for its tendency to tremendously push back all innovativeness, and conservating people as hard as possible.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
When it comes about my country -- it is always one or even two epochs back, so firstly it needs to properly implement at least modern everyday necessities, before moving on to something advanced.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
Disadvantages are obvious: too high dependency on technology, one faulty server and you can lose all that precious data. Advantages are even more obvious, up to the point where this is not necessary to list them.
1. What do you think about Digital government in Estonia?
This is great thing and every coutry in today's world should consider to make goverment digital. I think with technology that we have today it is posible to go fully digital.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
Of course it can but in Poland, goverment is not really into it. We have couple of digital soulutions as mObywatel or profil zaufany but goverment is far far away from being all digital.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
Of course security and dependacy on govement servers, if it would not be a decentilized solution.
2.E-offices in Poland are introduced to some extent. You can do a lot via the internet, sometimes you have to go to the office.
3. The security of such systems is a particular concern. You can potentially find a way to harm someone or reap the benefits yourself.
2. I think it’s definitely possible in my country. Thera are project in the works already that are meant to provide these solutions for example in medicine sectors.
3. The only disadvantage is the complexity of implementation for these solutions. It takes a lot of work and a lot of experts to make them work and even after that it still would be hard to educate everyone how to use them. Another thing are security issues and how to make all these private data secure. Advantages are obvious: less queues, faster and easier process, less struggling in offices etc.
2&3. There are some implementations of digitalisation in Poland. I was surprised to hear that you need to keep an ID on you, while I use a digital one. However, to my knowledge and needs, that's the extent of it. I was in another country at the polish elections day and, trust me, it is really hard to vote in Bangkok. I could not stop but wonder how much easier it would be to just vote online. I understand that this could be difficult as the system could be hacked, although it's the same with people, just the code is money. One could also argue that there could be massive identity theft, I don't know much about hacking but I believe it's way harder then brake into someones iCloud. If we would to completely switch to digital, at first it would be scary and confusing, but in no time we would appreciate the new systems, moreover, team trees would prise us for saving lots of threes :)
2) No, it can't, in order for the system so complicated to be implemented, it would require a current government to be very competent as it is. Sadly it is not the case in Ukraine.
3) The obvious disadvantage is single or at least a much more vulnerable point of failure. But leaving the safety factor aside, I believe there is almost nothing that a well-designed system can't do better than humans. At the very least, I believe it has the potential to eliminate low-level corruption once and for all.
I think the Estonian government is going in the right direction. We are also heading in this direction, although to a much smaller and slower degree. To be honest, I'm surprised that I didn't know it was already implemented in Estonia.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
Of course, I think it would be possible to introduce a digital government to our country. However, do we really need it? Well. Maybe this will happen.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/advantages of this?
The disadvantage may be viruses or low skills of those in power in our country who will not be able to cope with the system. Savings, in the long run, can be an advantage.
Of course physical data that we have now isn't secured too. But having all in a digital format it's a little bit scary.
But despite this, I would still really like to see it in my country.
2.It seems to me that Polish society and government are quite resistant to such significant changes. Of course, we already have some, but it takes a long time to catch up with Estonia.
3. I think the advantages are quite obvious. The disadvantage of such a thing is, of course, the great need to educate people so that they can use it. Such a system would also have to be resistant to hackers and viruses.
Digitalisation of governance definitely makes people's lives easier in their dealings with the state. Just as Facebook made it easier to connect with friends. And just like Internet gave people practically unlimited access to knowledge. And what came out of it? Internet increased ignorance, promoted fake news, and made everybody more or less the same. Facebook became a money machine, where people are being sold to companies as some sort of modern slaves, deprived of privacy and manipulated by politicians. I'm not sure if it is really such a good idea. If a new Hitler or Stalin comes up, they would have a lot easier job to implement their evil plans than before.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
Yeah with some parts but I don't think it will be fully implemented
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
Nothing came to my mind right now, but I will come back to this comment later :)
2. I think it should be implemented. If done properly, it is much safier than the current solution.
3. There is always a risk for any IT related stuff and there are no 100% secure systems, so that is the main disadvantage.
I think that Digital goverment is good until this does not cross the border of personal life and data. Lets see on China, not on European country. In China each sitizen has the rating, and everything depends on this. If the rating is not as good as it gonna be the man will suffer and revive the rating is difficult thing. The personal goal in this system is not to live the life good but just to collect the points in govermental system.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
If this will solve my problem of course, I like the automatization and simplifying.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
Actually I described the possible disadvantages in first answer.
Of course, it can be implemented, even must! We should create a lot of possibilities for people to realize needs. I believe that it will be possible to create such a system, by creating, testing, improving smaller subsystems for narrower scope of public relations.
I think it is great. It should be done in every country. With modern technical possibilities, all countries should implement this and use it.
2. Do you think this can be implemented in your country? Or maybe already is implemented?
As far as I know, in my country, the government started to implement digital government into real life. Now there is a testing phase for some online solutions for different kinds of government services.
3. Can you think of any disadvantages/ advantages of this?
The only disadvantage I can see know is security. It should be very secure and protected with all possible layers of defense. Because everything is stored online, this means that when hackers would break through all layers of defense they will steal all information and the consequences would be terrible.