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This book would not have been possible without the twenty remarkable digital government leaders who are featured here with interviews. They all agreed to be included as soon as I asked, which is a great honor. They all contributed exactly what I knew they would: their leadership wisdom through practical insights, their hard lessons, and their happy learnings. They also patiently went through the pains of reviewing the transcripts. Thank you for being my peers, and my friends! I keep learning from you, even if you may not be in government anymore.

Barbara Ubaldi from OECD, David Eaves from Harvard Kennedy School, Linnar Viik, and my brother-in-arms Kristo Vaher, Estonian government's Chief Technology Officer, were instrumental in encouraging me to move the book from idea to proposal by sparring with me on the concept and content plan at inception of the idea.

More than thirty experts and practitioners from the field of digital government from all over the world were helpful contributors to the small early snowballing exercise I conducted before the book proposal submission, helping to shape the substance for the interviews and the list of interviewees. There are so many of you to name but you know who you are! Your encouraging answers also confirmed that this book would be a good idea.

Sheck Cho, executive editor at Wiley, was brave and kind to pick up my initial LinkedIn ping, had faith to sign me on, and in the most effective manner guided me through to the initial book preparation. Susan Cerra, managing editor, was most kind in steering me until the end and allowing for some pushback of deadlines beyond the initial schedule. Thanks also to everyone else at Wiley, who put time and effort for this title to come together in the most professional and easiest way through editing, proofing, typesetting, publishing, promotion, and beyond.

I have been lucky to have an extraordinary team come to work with me at the Government CIO Office of Estonia and allow me to be your lead. You have helped me grow and educated me on-the-job; you have made all our successes happen. The chance of working with you and the challenges we have jointly addressed were exactly what pushed me to wonder what the good practices are out there, and how some of the best in our game have dealt with the same issues.

Finally, I do have to thank my wife, Riina, for making it possible for me to take the time and space to get this book together even as we have three kids running around at home and there are day jobs to be done, too. Love you and our girls!