COVID-19疫情已经清楚表明，缩小全球数字鸿沟是保护各国人民和经济免受未来冲击的重要途径。关于这方面，我要谈谈自己的经历。爱沙尼亚是世界上第一个所有公共事务都在网上运行的数字化转型国家。这极大地帮助我们减轻了这场疫情的负面影响，因为我国大多数人都在远程工作，孩子们通过视频屏幕在家上学。
COVID-19 has made it crystal clear: closing the global digital gap is an important way to protect our communities and economies against future shocks. And here I am speaking from my own experience. Estonia is the world’s first digitally transformed State where all public services run online. This helped us significantly to mitigate the negative effects of the pandemic when most of us were teleworking and kids were being homeschooled via video screen.