More digitalization and IT policy one step closer to death

During last year's Almedalen, I wrote that IT policy was dead and that digitalization was the new black. This year, 250, or just over 7 percent, of all seminars and events addressed digitization issues (the effects of applied IT, if you will). Obviously, many people seem to have "got the message". That is, digitization is a force for structural change that affects everything and everyone.

Where we used to argue about the usefulness of the internet, access to data or society's need to adapt to technology, most people are now in touching agreement.

The impact of digitalization on ourselves seems harder to grasp and agree on.

Which is only natural with a technology that has such a deep and wide impact, and with which we naturally have no previous experience. Our whole society is organized on a different basis.

And somewhere along the line, digitization stops being a technology issue and becomes a general societal issue about how we gather and build and share knowledge and experiences with each other.

The odds of the prediction that we won't have an IT minister in a few years' time coming true seem to have decreased since last year.