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Podcast: Thinking Inside the Box
Episode: How do we Create Digital Nations? - Siim Sikkut
Description: In today’s episode, I chat with Siim Sikkut, the former CIO of the Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications for the government of Estonia, one of the architects of that country’s truly innovative e-Residency Program, and most recently, a Managing Director at Digital Nation. In 2007, a series of cyberattacks targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers and broadcasters. While ultimately these attempts were unsuccessful, it was a call-to-action for nation states to take more seriously their digital infrastructure and security. It undoubtedly influenced his later work. In 2014, along with two collab...