Kaplan visited IT&Telecom companies

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Minister Mehmet Kaplan, Minister of Housing, Urban Development and IT, today visited the IT&Telecom companies' packed lunch seminar and talked about IT policy based on the question "Why should we be the best in the world?". Watch the whole seminar, or just the IT Minister's speech, afterwards here.

The Minister of IT was invited to speak about the government's vision for IT policy and the importance of digitization for society, based on the IT&Telecom companies' question "Why should we be the best in the world?"

- "It is very positive that in his speech he emphasized both the importance of digitization for our entire society and that the companies in our industry are extremely important in driving that development. And not least important, he emphasized that the government's mission is to support, and not act as an obstacle to, the companies, comments Anne-Marie Fransson, Director of IT&Telecom companies.

- On the other hand, we still think that there are no concrete proposals for action from the Minister. What we heard today was a good description of the situation, but did not express a particularly visionary or action-oriented IT policy, as several in the audience put it in the discussion afterwards.

https://video.almega.se/it-minister-mehmet-kaplan-hos

Minister of IT Mehmet Kaplan at IT&Telecom companies May 7, 2015

Program

  • Staffan Hanstorp, Chairman of the Board, introduces and welcomes
  • Anne-Marie Fransson, Director of the Federation, on our activities; what we did during the year, priorities for 2015 and goals for 2020
  • Mehmet Kaplan, Minister for Housing, Urban Development and IT (MP)
  • Prime Minister Mehmet Kaplan talks about the government's vision for IT policy and the importance of digitization for society, based on the IT&Telecom companies' question "Why should we be the best in the world?"
  • Panel discussion:

Staffan Hanstorp, Chairman of the Board IT&Telekomföretagen, CEO Addnode Group AB
Ulla Hemmi, CEO OpusCapita Sweden
Stefan Krook, CEO Kivra
Stefan Bäcktorp, CEO SFT Bredbandsgruppen