Pictured at left above at ‘Enterprise Estonia’ in Tallinn, the country’s capital, is Kaspar Korjus the Director of e-residence. One of the program’s many goals is to attract as many as 10 million “digital residents” to utilize Estonia’s exceptional government and private sector Internet services and to provide a portal into e-business anywhere in the European Union and beyond.
At centre, accepting his e-resident Identity Card is Anguillan businessman, Lynwood Bell.
At right is government advisor to Estonia and former Apple and Google employee, Aman Kumar
The e-residency does not confer any right of personal residence, citizenship, work permit, passport or travel document; however, it does …digitally sign documents and contracts, verify the authenticity of documents, encrypt and transmit documents securely, administer companies from anywhere in the world, conduct e-banking, and provides access to online payment services.
Bell believes that in addition to Internet facilities, e-residency also provides him with verifiable reputational credentials which have been vetted by an EU government. All of this helps to meet increasing demands for global safeguards and due diligence, especially among banks, businesses and law enforcement.
Estonia is proudly pioneering the idea of a country without borders providing electronic access to the entire world. Anguilla demonstrated similar pioneering spirit in 1999 when we initiated “e-corporate residency” through our Government of Anguilla ACORN system. We are now collaborating with Estonia on the additional way forward at a personal electronic level.
Bell says: “I am proud to be the first Anguillan e-resident on the same day as we celebrated “Anguilla Day”. I hope this Estonian “digital independence” for identification & document signatures will be used by many. We are becoming truly international and at the same time, providing authenticity, safety, security, transparency & the trust that must be ensured between everyone on the planet including the ‘Internet of Things’.”
Mr. Bell will be celebrating his new e-residency at the London www.hypercatsummit.com on June 8th as well as at the San Francisco, Intellectual Property congress www.ipbusinesscongress.com/2015/ on June 14th.
For more information, please contact: info@anguilla-counts.ai or +1 (264) 497-3800
– Press Release
(Published without editing by The Anguillian newspaper.)
