How Much E is in E-stonia?

Spend five seconds in Estonia and you'll realise that this place is an internet country. Every Estonian I know is logged onto MSN chat during the day, free wi-fi is ubiquitous, Skype was built here, and Estonia was the first country to hold E-elections. It would be a real challenge to find a pub or cafe without a person using a laptop. While I may joke that Estonians don't actually ever talk to each other face to face but prefer to communicate online, I actually enjoy living in a place that so readily adopts new technology.
I am often embarrassed by how this little post soviet country makes my native Australia look second rate in anything to do with the interwebs. So it came as a real surprise when I read about a World Economic Forum study on IT which ranked Estonia at 18th and Australia at 14th. After making fun of Sirli and telling her that her country was less IT ready that mine for a good while, I actually stopped to think about the results. All in all I'm no longer embarrassed by Australia, but am still pretty impressed by Estonia. The little Baltic nation managed to rank above France, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand and Ireland. I think given the country's history, that's a really impressive result.
I'm also pretty happy I don't live in Chad. I know nobody from Chad will be offended by that, because none of them will have the internet to read this!