 Maen nhw'n rhaid i'r siffer y Llyfr Gweithgoedd Gwyl trwy'r Ardynnu Gweithreth. Rydyn ni'n bod yn rhaid i'r Ardynnu Gweithreth, Seam, ac mae'r rhaid i'r llyfr er mwyn ar y gweithio'r pryd i'r gweithreth o'r strategiai a'r polisi a'r rhywbeth i'r gweithreth o'r Ardynnu Gweithreth o'r Ganhwyl ar y digitalaeth. Felly, rydyn ni'n gweithreth i'r ardal i'r gweithreth o'r Ardynnu Gweithreth. Ond yna, mae'n fydd yn ymweld i'r gweithio bwysig i'r gweithio'r gweithio a'r rai'r gweithio sy'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio i gael ar y cwrs. So, Cyngor, rydyn ni'n ddweud sut yma o gweithio'r gweithio'r Gweithio'r Gweithio'r Gweithio? Beth yn ymdweud? Felly, mae'n gweithio i ddweud i'r ddechrau i Eisteddfodol i Llyfrgellu'n Gweithio, ond mae yna yma i gyfnodd y dyfodol yng nghylach yma, mae'n dysgu o gwagodau ei hynny, ond mae'n gweithio i ddweud i'n gweithio i ddweud i gweithio i eu bod ei wneud. Mae'n dweud i ddweud a llunio i Estonia. Mae'n ddweud yng nghylch! Yn thwyno, ond mae oedd yn dweud i gweithio fel hynny, ond this topic a lot, and I'll start really by saying that perhaps we don't know better. So the background really is why we started doing anything and everything we could digitally 20 years ago and why it became a strategy really for the country was that clearly we are even smaller than Ireland and exactly facing great development challenges in terms of economic growth and so forth. Well, the context is that we have to do everything we can to be as efficient as we can, right, with a little population of resources we have. The context also has been that it has been, well, I can't say we're really Irish in that sense, but it's actually really also in low taxes a bit like here. So in that context, how do you pull off the challenge of still being a full-fledged country and a public sector, right? So clearly efficiency is the part. And that's why we started experimenting based on some really good advice and ideas from visionary engineers 20 years back and mind you, it worked. So from the first experiment and sort of trials of technology and how to be efficient with that, it became a conscious strategy that it is now. And let's say if we jump forward 20 years, so where we stand today, I mean I could safely say that almost anything you need to get done with the government but also actually beyond, you can get done electronically online yourself. The only exceptions there are basically interactions we call high-risk ones like getting married. So to take the romance away from this, it's a transaction that comes with serious consequences, hopefully for the rest of your life. So we want to make sure you know what you're doing and exactly going into this voluntarily or buying and selling real estate, same thing. We want to make sure that you're not being coerced out of your most valuable asset. So you still have to show up even though the rest of it happens afterwards, everything digitally. So you don't, for example, get the marriage certificate on paper anymore that has any legal value. It's just an entry in the registry. Again, sorry for the romance. Now, the point here is that anything and everything beyond that, and I'll share a few more examples, has been enabled digitally really for the reasons, yes, that way we can deliver better as a public sector and government, but also of course bringing efficiency and convenience to people's lives and entrepreneurs' lives. Now, before I bring out examples, I'll say just a few words about what have been really their neighbours and what have allowed us to pull this off. And clearly digital identity has been one of them. So and not just for authentication in terms of logging in and being able to securely access services and systems online, but even fundamentally the electronic signatures, it allows us to issue again in a secure and fully legally valid manner. So with our ID card or a mobile ID, I can sign off anything and it will hold in court. So whether it's my application to my government, my prime minister sending a bill to the parliament or two companies making a contract between themselves, we don't have to meet. We can be anywhere in the world and get that stuff done. Our prime minister has famously signed bills to send to parliament in the back of the car, backseat of the car because that's the most efficient time use for them. So identity, clearly one of them. Secondly, extra was already mentioned, but basically having a platform and the common way of doing things rather for data exchange has been instrumental as well. Because if you think about from service point of view, quite often we need to either push a bull data, especially if we want to serve the people in a seamless way. So to give you just one example, then tax declarations have been for long a very easy affair in Estonia. So for physical people, if it's tax declaration time, they spend about three minutes on this at most. They go in when it's tax date, they review the data because we bring it together over extra and it's a pre-filled declaration, next, next, next, submit, done, that's taxes. No paper slips, no accountants, no sort of hassle essentially. And the same thing exactly is replicated in other services then. And that's why data sharing is really what powers the good service experience. That's why I have to make an internet now. We are very keen to see and cheer for Valerie and the government here exactly on the identity part as well as the ideas for the data exchange and sharing. If these building blocks are there, then we know a great issue the government can actually be built in all different areas. Now, but I promise to give you a bit of glimpses. So if I look at, let's say, the services that we have built up from government point of view, I would say they fall into like three sort of categories. But one of them is that we try to really digitize and make efficient and convenient all the things that we make people and companies do. So all the bureaucracy. So for example, if you are a company and you're up and running, all the reporting you have to do, you do it online. Actually it's even for companies, it's mandatory to do it online. For tax purposes, statistics or annual reporting, you name this. Because that's more efficient. That's exactly the way, you know, that's where they go for this as well. Because that saves them time and money. With bureaucracy, in our case, we've even gone beyond. It's not just efficiency anymore. I'm glad to say our digital services for companies have gotten so good that we attract now users for them from all over the world. That's the e-residency that was kindly mentioned. With the e-residency, we started issuing our digital identity card for anyone in the world about two and a half years ago. So that was really the idea that, look, let's open up our services. So far only a physical Estonian resident could access to them. But why not serve all those who want to transact across the borders? For them to be able to sign digitally, do the financial transactions, to set up companies and run them, that's a great benefit. We now are seeing people from all over the world being attracted to this and they bring, you know, again, more revenue now to the country because they use the services through us, even if they're somewhere in Dublin here or on the beach in Fiji. So that was bureaucracy. Second thing is that we've tried to also bring the digital means of convenience to the things that people want to do, even all the way to voting, which is the sort of scenario here. Well, the voting is really this way. Look, these days, we're all busy, right? And we also more and more travel globally. So voting and actually going to an election booth is quite a lot of hassle these days for many people. Not to mention that it can be crappy whether exactly like that. In our case, we are not so lucky to have elections, for example, in September. Our parliamentary elections are the first Sunday of March. It can be pretty bad. But that was the idea. Let's then offer a much more comfy and easy access to voting for people. You can just vote over internet now in Estonia for your parliament or local municipality or European parliament from your home, from your office, again, the beach in Fiji. So we can just make it more convenient and accessible. But of course, serving the people is especially necessary at times when they have the greatest need for this. So, for example, again in the cases where they really need government, let's say public services to come to health. Health is a prime example. That's why we have opted for a national health record for 10 years now. We've built up a medical history electronically so that the next time you have to see a doctor, perhaps we don't have to redo as many analysis, especially in emergencies that can save your life right there that the data is available. In all of these things that I could speak way long, I know the time is limited, but we try to really follow a few approaches or principles that for us really now have become even instinct, I would say. And one of them is really that whatever we do, we have to make sure that trust is there so that we build systems securely, we keep them secured day by day by having a very high level of defence capacity for any sort of cyber incidents, but also that we preserve the privacy, of course. And so it's all the way to exactly how we design things, like I said. So, for example, how we preserve the privacy in the case of health. Well, we are transparent about how we use the data. That's a good way that, you know, all the other sort of checkpoints fail, people themselves can see who has access to data. And if there's an issue that a wrong doctor went into somebody's file, well, then we can sort of do something about it. So, with many different examples, but yes, we clearly need to ensure trust because without trust we won't have the users and without users we can't really have the benefits from digital that we need to have. But secondly, and I think I already hinted on this talking about X-Rode, we clearly have benefited. We fundamentally believe that data sharing is what makes the sort of stuffy and magic happen. So, data reuse, state access to the data. Here I'm talking mostly right now within the government, right? So, in our case, we don't just allow for data to be reused. We actually mandate this. That was the one's only really principle that we brought in early saying that, look, yes, if government already knows something about you, even if it's another agency, the other should not be asking again. And that was really to enforce a better user experience that people would have to spend less time in different online environments and getting the stuff done when they need to get them done. Now, the point here is that the funny thing, to us it's a funny thing, it's actually sad, is that it all stops at the borders. So, I mean, the reason I have the Finnish flag here is that say, in our case, Estonia, Finland, they're separate by 50 miles, 80 kilometres. Two very digitally advanced governments, I would say, right? But if you go from one country to another to do business or to live or whatever, that's so much immediately have to resort back to paperwork and the hassle that it brings. So, to me, one of the simplest examples, if an Estonian company goes to do any business sort of in Finland, it has to come across a tax agency there. Automatically, you have to have a paper and assign some or print it, if not even notarised. Yes, I can represent this company. I'm in the board, for example, of my own company. To get that, you have to see an agency physically, which you otherwise never do, get the paper sort of basically printed from a digital registry, then you do the pigeon work and take the ferry or the fly and go to Finland, you see the tax agency there, and what do they do? They type it up or scan it in. It's crazy, isn't it? Our world, our single market. So, and that's, you know, again, Estonia, Finland, it's even, you know, people got whatever countries and combinations the same way. So, for us, it's clearly, let's connect the data together. I mean, as we have seen so strong domestically, what data sharing would allow, then exactly it's, you know, for instance of clear measures, let's bring this to cross-border level. And Finland is no random example. Finland, we're doing this actively already in practice, right? So, we are connecting our governments of data sharing platforms. So, literally, these days, technologically, to share data between Estonia and Finnish, let's say, in a database, a governmental database, is the same as doing it domestically. But of course, it should not end with this. We're just basically prototyping and trialling this for the rest of Europe, and we see that that should be there really for the whole of single market. Because like previous speakers said, I mean, yeah, we also see it from practice that unless we bring the data together, unless we allow the data to sort of be accessed and reused and flow, the single market, the other freedoms don't necessarily function, or at least there are very strong barriers in the way. So, the example I had with the entrepreneur going to the other country, well, that's actually the freedom of movement for goods or services or capital. If it's so much trouble to basically, you know, to deal with another tax agency, it is a practical barrier. So, that sort of instinct of the data movement and what, you know, the benefits that sharing can bring, I mean, we've been preaching this and sort of trying to act on this already before the presidency, but of course we now bring this to European Union presidency as well with us. But of course it's not just that. So, if I look at the presidency work we do now, and sort of then I would categorise our work really in sort of three buckets or three sort of blocks, the first one is really that we have made a commitment together with our trio partners. So, the next presidency is to come Bulgaria and Austria, that we will deliver deals and agreements between member states and all the digital single market files that we have on the table that are still coming in the sort of foreseeable future. And by the end of the next year, so exactly by the time of the commission term ending, for us as Estonia now, some of the priorities in the remaining four months are around, for example, electronic communications code, making sure that there's a sort of, you know, right sort of framework in place for Europe to move forward in sort of telecom infrastructure and the investment to be there in the market. For example that we could have 5G that was mentioned here. We already hope exactly with the kind help of Irish as well to have at least from member states side a bit of agreement already in October so forth, that we could then go ahead with the European Parliament on this. And many other pieces of legislation like that, it's just one example that I'm bringing out, but the core idea is really that, you know, we'll deliver as much as we can on the legislative part because that's really the core of making this a framework for a single market to happen. On that one, second part is really the work we are trying to do then to really raise the profile of digital topics and discussions throughout different policy fields in Europe. So one thing is to lay the building blocks whether for your legal framework or the infrastructure, but the other part is that, you know, what do we use it for? So that's why we are having some 50-plus events throughout the presidency, most entirely, basically dragging all the Irish ministers there hopefully in the six months and others, trying to raise the topic. Okay, so how can we really benefit more from digital in agriculture or space or energy or tourism or your name, whatever field or policy there is? So that's really exactly trying to get the attention and the thinking going, okay, how do we now benefit the market that we are building up? How do we really benefit in different policy areas and build a better Europe with digital tools and solutions? The utmost discussion on that of course will be 29th of September in Thailand when we have a digital summit for the heads of state and government and exactly trying to talk big picture about what is the European way forward in digital economy. And that's really the third block is that so as we try to mainstream and horizontally bring digital to any discussions we also try to start talking about now, okay, what's next really for the digital single market strategy as well beyond the files, the first block that we already have at the table, what should perhaps be coming with the next commission and parliament and so forth. And for us the core area in that regard is still anything and everything around free movement of data, how do we get more of that going? Some blocks if we think about free movement of data we've divided into let's say three blocks of things that we see that we definitely need to have some progress on. One is how to get the unjustified data localization requirements removed Johan mentioned commission is bringing out an initiative on this already in a few weeks time so that will have the legislation already soon. But beyond that, yes, definitely the issues of non personal data, how do we get that access to that then reuse of that going is an area where we see we have to start to understand what could be the measures to do. Or secondly I already brought out how we see that unless we connect the governments, effectively a single market may not be working, then again how do we do that? How do we for example have a once only principle on European level at least as a sort of opt-in version that if I come to do business in Ireland I could demand the government here that I don't want to give you my data again ask the Estonians. So and could that perhaps push then us to integrate and effectively then bring the sort of the single market together digitally as well. On that one already early October we are bringing the e-government, digital government ministers to Thailand to hopefully agree a declaration that will exactly set the next steps in this area. So this is the sort of things we do exactly the legislative work we do in Brussels and with all our colleagues daily now, the sort of topics and discussions we are trying to bring to different police areas as well as with along the horizon in mind and all really for the purpose because we have seen Estonia the great benefits of digital life and society can bring we see that let's not miss out on this in the whole of Europe. So with that thank you and if you haven't been to Estonia come visit us.