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Estonia: Where Access to the Internet is a Human Right

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  • 07-07-2003 2:08am
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    Chaos-Engine
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    I posted this here because I want to discuse the politic implications of this decision they made over 2 years ago on the Irish economy and politica...

    Firstly: Estonia has a low-corporate tax system and is following examples such as Ireland. At present it has corporate Tax at 24%(twice ireland's rate) but there is no tax on profits reinvested.
    Estonia also has plans to reduce their corporate tax rate further and have a fixed exchange rate with euro.

    Secondly: A large amount of tech firms successfully draw labour from finland to estonia to work

    Thirdly: The government has recently made access to the Internet a Fundemental Human right in Estonia ans is in the process of wiring and wirelessing up the whole country(town and country). I'm not talking about dial-ups. 2mb wireless WANs is what they are doing in rural areas and huge ADSL in urban areas of a 2mb+ varity...


    Mainly this is going to put serious pressures on Irelands assumed role as eHub of europe. In particular when the tech industry begins to reimerge in the next 2 years...

    I don't think the government here could pass such a bold law unless they were to own the wires that it sold along with eircom.
    I think that the government has learned its lesson there and in its proposed break-up of the ESB it will have a state-run agency that owns all the transmittion lines and networks that make up the Power grid of the country.


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