Knowing that you know nothing is the first step towards knowledge

How should we deal with a new character stepping onto the stage when the script is written, the cast hired and the play rehearsed? Twenty seminars, workshops, mingles and meetings later in this year's Almedalen, it is clear that the character is called digitization.

If IT policy and the effects of digitalization used to be uninteresting to most people, today it has come to encompass everything.

In this year's Almedalen, many have highlighted that digitalization is not an IT issue. It is a tool, new opportunities if you will, for creating value and building something new. Or, for that matter, to preserve something we already have.

I am the first to agree. Digital technology is a foundation on which everything else rests. It has expanded the absolute limits of what is possible. What we do with that opportunity is up to us.

And we have only seen the beginning of that journey. To avoid getting lost, we need knowledge. This applies to you and me, businesses and customers, legislators and citizens.

We are building that knowledge. Here in Almedalen, for example. And not least through Digital Utmaning. A think tank that works to make the path to the future clearer.

In a series of consultations, we bring together leading experts on the major societal issues to better understand how digitalization affects the conditions for building a society with new opportunities.

Yesterday, Digital Challenge's chairman Lars Ilshammar led a discussion on the effects of digitalization on the Swedish model and the education system. Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, Timbro, Anders Lindberg, Aftonbladet, together with Gunnar Karlsson and Eva Udden-Sonnegård, two of the think tank's advisors, all agreed that digitalization is not an IT issue. And that we still have a lot to learn.

Do you also think that Socrates was right when he said that the wisest person is the one who knows that he does not know?

Then we want to talk to you!