Estonians are moving towards creating a completely digital government

A card shows all the details to register the birth of new baby Oskar Lunde. The Baltic nation is engaged in an ambitious project to make government administration completely digital.

In the Estonian capital of Tallinn, three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps soundly in his hospital cot, snuggled into a lime green blanket decorated with red butterflies. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop.

“Now we will register our child,” Andrejs Lunde says with gravity as he inserts his ID card into the card reader. His wife, Olga, looks on proudly.