Erik Linask
writer
December 2008
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Mobile Voting in Estonia
December 12, 2008There's been so much chatter around wireless technology lately, thanks in no small part to the popularity of Apple's iPhone, Google's Android platform, and now the latest BlackBerry all-touchscreen phone, the Storm. You could fill an entire site with iPhone-related news and information, in fact.
The interesting thing, though, is that the U.S. is still well behind Europe, in particular, with respect to mobile capabilities, which leads me to an article I wrote today about an exciting development in the mobile world.
Estonia is a small country, hidden away on the shores of the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland. Despite its small size and population, it has already made a significant contribution to the communications world, being home to much of the R&D that has gone into the Skype application now used by some 370 million people globally.
Last year, Estonia became the first country to allow voting in nationwide general elections to be done online.
