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”
Society is engaged in a heated debate about whether we should return to offices after the pandemic. Should we go back to how things were before Covid-19? Should we continue to work from home and enjoy the benefits of greater flexibility and efficiency that many people feel this has brought? Or can we organise an … Continue reading “The digital workplace at home”
When I wrote my doctoral thesis, the data that my results were based on were stored in boxes in my office. This included interview data, research diaries, prototypes and photographs from field studies. All in a great big jumble that only I could find things in. If everything had been structured better, in a standardised … Continue reading “Data – more than the new oil”
