AI_pealkiri: Lahkuv USA suursaadik Jeffrey Levine Eesti iduettevõtlusest, e-residentsusest ja Silicon Valleyst

I have to agree here, I mean, like, jah, I was, I mean, like the e-residents, e-residentsi garaaž that was happening just a couple of weeks ago, I mean, it was my first garaaž actually. And I was very impressed about the procedures and, and the whole process, I mean, like it was amazing, I mean, like what they did, they are doing.

funny, when a, our start-ups actually had a problem that they could not use Google Play. I mean, they could use it, but they could not get money from, from Google. So, and to solve the problem, we had to turn to the president, Ilves, to help us and he did and now it's, it's, it's sold, the problem is sold. But, during the process, we, we understood what is our, say, what is our level or like where we are in, in the Google's list and it was, they said you know, we, we actually put you in the head of Sudaan, now. But, I, I mean, I understand Google, because Sudaani is 80 miljonit country and but also Sudaani is a country, for example, where European Union has an embargo. So it's, it's, it's, it's no, no me know, where we are. In, in

No, and for, for me that, that it's been great and I think you know that I applied for Estonian e-residency. And it was a little iroonic, I applied for Estonian e-residency in the morning and then tried to renew my son's car registration with the California department of motor vehicles in the evening. And the difference between the two websites, the difference between just the way they operated and what I was able to get done, was pretty striking, and I came in the next morning and went, I think living back in America is going to be harder than I think, so.

It's, it's part of San Franciscos loar and when you look at openness and tolerants and what it creates, you really do have to look at San Francisco. And I am a very proud... resident of that area, so I know that I, I'm, I'm biased, but if you look at, in United States, the social movements that have occurred and, let's say the beatniks kind of started in New York, but they really also took hold in San Francisco, followed by the hipi era, followed by women's liberation, followed by gay liberation, I mean all of those movements in United States really did start in the San Francisco area, either started or really became powerful.

I think president, president Obama has especially been concerned about that and has made a lot of changes, starting with the question of just because we have the technical capability of doing something, should we be doing something? And when should we be doing it? And what should the controls on that be? And I, I have to note that. For, much of our history, when it kames to, kame to, quote, intelligence issues, our response, response would be, we will not discuss intelligence issues, period. And that was, noh, that's obviously a very unsatisfactory answer to people who want to talk about it. And President Obama really was the first one to, to say, okay, we're going to talk about it, we are going to admit, yes, we have been doing this. This is why we're doing it. We are now going to review, whether we should be doing it and we'll let you know, how that review came out. And that, I, I'm not sure that he got enough credit for how difficult that is, and sotsi in the security environment, of being more force coming with what we were doing and a commitment to, to really review, how it was operating.

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