&gt; 1) One consideration is scale: Estonia&#x27;s population is around the size of a city, 1.3 million, about equivalent to SF and Oakland combined. It&#x27;s land area is around 17,500 sq miles; a U.S. state of that size would be the 42nd largest, between West Virginia and Maryland.
That doesn&#x27;t diminish the services for thier citizens; to the extent that they enhance government through tech, that&#x27;s great. But if you are comparing countries, it&#x27;s much different to organize and service 1.3 than 300 million. In fact, if I were running a small nation (something I know nothing about), I might use that relative nimbleness as a competitive advantage.<p>But wouldn&#x27;t applying tech for very big populated countries would be better?
I mean: the more people are contributing to an &quot;open source&quot; project, the better it is<p>So in the end, I feel like that if big countries would be more &quot;open&quot; by going in the e-government sense, we would have a &quot;Linux&quot; government (I admit that I really don&#x27;t know nothing about this, but I find this very interesting).<p>&gt; 2) As a guess, Singapore?
Could you give some key points to outline the difference between Singapore and Estonia?<p>&gt; 3) Does e-government include the governmental service of spying on citizens?
Well, there is room to improvement concerning this issue, right?
There is a lot of effort towards privacy matters, and in the end, people will fight for it, so can we suppose that the &quot;spy citizens&quot; thing will be solved at any moment?<p>(By the way, I feel that I&#x27;m more spied in my country -France- than in an e-government country like Estonia, reminder that a spying law was passed and everything is okay in France...)