The firm’s corporate law team has advised Cybernetica, the Estonian R&D lab that built the original Internet voting system used in Estonia, on entering into a cooperation agreement with Smartmatic, the leading international company producing automated election systems.
The aim of this cooperation is to set up a unique online voting centre of excellence – the Smartmatic-Cybernetica Centre of Excellence for Internet Voting.
By means of foreign investment in the high-tech sector of Estonia, the world’s largest company offering electoral systems and services will help further develop the Estonian electronic voting system and export these solutions globally.
Cybernetica is an R&D-intensive ICT company that develops and delivers software solutions that support the information society, as well as light signalling and telematics products and maritime surveillance and radio communications systems. Cybernetica is the creator of Estonia’s online voting system, which is unique in the world. The company has offices in Tallinn and Tartu.
Smartmatic focuses on the development and provision of technologies and services with broad social implications. Smartmatic has contributed to 3500 successful elections across the world in which 2.3 billion audited votes have been cast. The company is the global leader in the field of electronic voting in terms of economic performance, geographical distribution and the technology used. Smartmatic employs more than 800 people in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, Barbados, Haiti, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, the Philippines, India and Taiwan.
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