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Today was a good day for IT&Telekomföretagen and our member companies. During the winter and spring, we have helped the Government Offices with the program for Minister for Digitalization Peter Eriksson and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's Nordic Council of Ministers meetings. It has been a lot of back and forth and quite a bit of knee-jerk reaction. But it also paid big dividends.

From last week's activities with Peter Eriksson, where we presented some 20 of the leading AI companies to Peter and his Nordic colleagues, to today's Prime Minister's meeting in Örnsköldsvik where the sun shone and 5G was the theme.

Here we helped bring out the sharpest examples of new products and services that will use 5G. In rather spectacular demonstrations, the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland experienced what the future has to offer. Einride demonstrated autonomous transportation with its new, self-driving and fully electric T-Pod. Telia, Ericsson and KI showed their jointly developed defibrillator drone for ultra-fast delivery of defibrillators in emergency situations where regular transportation is not fast enough. Nokia's show case highlighted how 5G and AR can facilitate both training and streamline service in data centers. And of course, our friends from Norway, Telenor, showed a 5G-connected salmon farm. From freight transportation, lifesaving and virtual server environments to connected fish, 5G has many potential uses. Which, of course, was the message. And it was something the prime ministers also returned to at the subsequent press conference, where a joint 5G declaration of intent was solemnly signed in front of a large press corps.

So now only the rest remains. And that is to get the Nordic governments to strengthen their cooperation on digital policy issues. Not least in Brussels, the Nordic Region, preferably with Sweden in the lead, needs to take the digital lead. This is something I wrote about two years ago. I want to believe that what we have seen in recent weeks, where several Nordic letters of intent on collaboration on both 5G and AI have been signed, is a sign that our work is making a difference and that we are moving in the right direction.