Despite intensive debate and many measures taken to increase the total number of people who excel at digital, the need for skills and personnel in business and the public sector remains as high as ever. Campaigns have been run to increase the number of people in advanced digital education, increase the availability of training opportunities … Continue reading “How can Sweden reach the cutting edge of digital competence?”
Some weeks ago, I was summoned to a meeting with the Swedish National Digitalisation Council, a renowned group of people established by the government to act as a sounding board for the Minister for Digital Development. I have had the opportunity of working with digitalisation policy for ten years now. It was in 2012 that … Continue reading “Does Sweden have a digitalisation policy?”
It is said that the truth is the first thing that is lost in a war or conflict. In relation to the terrible attack on Ukraine in recent days, we have been able to witness how news is published quickly and then disappears just as quickly when it was unable to be confirmed. We have … Continue reading “Vulnerability and truth in times of crisis”
There I was sitting on one of the few trains that were running between Uppsala and Stockholm. Normally there are around eight to ten trains an hour, but now there seems to only be one train every hour and a half. We’ve heard about frozen points, trespassers on the line or points and signal failures … Continue reading “Boost your IT support people instead”
Where does anyone’s identity reside? Some people would say that your identity is your email address, especially if it is an address you have had for a long time. I remember the first time I was forced to relinquish the email address shown on my very first publication because the organisational unit was absorbed into … Continue reading “Are you your email address?”
Despite the fact that Sweden and Norway are top of the class when it comes to digitalisation in general, the two countries are far less impressive in the case of digitalisation within the public sector. I have just written my first scientific article in Norwegian, my native language, an interesting experience in its own right. … Continue reading “Digitalisation within the public sector must be improved”
