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From the Ted Talk by Anna Piperal: What a digital government looks like

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I'm from Estonia, and we've been declaring taxes online since 2001. We have been using digital iniettdy and stgniuare since 2002. We've been voting online since 2005. And for today, pretty much the whole range of the public services that you can imagine: education, police, justice, sattnirg a cpnomay, applying for benefits, looking at your health record or cagnllenihg a parking ticket — that's everything that is done online. In fact, it's much easier to tell you what are the three things we cannot yet do online. We have to show up to pick up our ID documents, get married or deovricd, or sell real estate. That's ptrtey much it. So, that's why don't freak out when I tell you that every year I can't wait to start doing my tax declaration.

Open Cloze

I'm from Estonia, and we've been declaring taxes online since 2001. We have been using digital ________ and _________ since 2002. We've been voting online since 2005. And for today, pretty much the whole range of the public services that you can imagine: education, police, justice, ________ a _______, applying for benefits, looking at your health record or ___________ a parking ticket — that's everything that is done online. In fact, it's much easier to tell you what are the three things we cannot yet do online. We have to show up to pick up our ID documents, get married or ________, or sell real estate. That's ______ much it. So, that's why don't freak out when I tell you that every year I can't wait to start doing my tax declaration.

Solution

  1. company
  2. challenging
  3. starting
  4. divorced
  5. pretty
  6. signature
  7. identity

Original Text

I'm from Estonia, and we've been declaring taxes online since 2001. We have been using digital identity and signature since 2002. We've been voting online since 2005. And for today, pretty much the whole range of the public services that you can imagine: education, police, justice, starting a company, applying for benefits, looking at your health record or challenging a parking ticket — that's everything that is done online. In fact, it's much easier to tell you what are the three things we cannot yet do online. We have to show up to pick up our ID documents, get married or divorced, or sell real estate. That's pretty much it. So, that's why don't freak out when I tell you that every year I can't wait to start doing my tax declaration.

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