Swedish Government Launches New Digitalization Strategy
Sweden's government reveals a new digitalization strategy aimed at enhancing competitiveness and public services.
Key Points
- • New digitalization strategy focuses on competence, connectivity, business, administration, and welfare.
- • Strategy aims for a cohesive digital policy to improve competitiveness and public services.
- • Government to merge PTS and DIGG to strengthen national digitalization efforts.
- • Private and public sectors are seen as interdependent in utilizing digital technologies.
On May 28, 2025, the Swedish government unveiled a new digitalization strategy with an emphasis on enhancing the nation's digital landscape through five crucial areas: competence, connectivity, business, administration, and welfare. This initiative seeks to create a coherent digital policy aimed at boosting competitiveness and improving public services across the board.
Maria Rosendahl, the policy director at Teknikföretagen, lauded the new approach, recognizing it as a necessary shift from the previous periods marked by fragmentation and underfunding within Sweden's digital policy framework. "The rapid pace of digital development necessitates an updated strategy, and this is a welcome change," Rosendahl stated, underscoring the importance of a unified digital policy.
As part of the strategy, the government announced the merger of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) and the Agency for Digital Government (DIGG). This consolidation aims to reinforce national digitalization efforts and create a more streamlined authority for overseeing digital technology regulations.
The new digitalization strategy acknowledges the interdependence of the private and public sectors in leveraging digital technology effectively. Increased access to faster, more secure technology promises significant benefits for both businesses and the delivery of public services. Rosendahl expressed enthusiasm about collaborating with the government to bring the strategy's goals to fruition.