Here are the finalists for Most Valuable Use of Tech of the Year
Today, the finalists for the 'Most Valuable Use of Tech of the Year' are presented in Tech Awards Sweden, an award and industry event organized by TechSverige and Foundry. Four entries have made it to the finals this year. The nominees are; BUP Skåne Online (BUP Region Skåne and Innovation Skåne), Ditt ECPAT/Säker uppladdning (Sticky Beat and ECPAT), GPT-SW3 (AI Sweden and partners) and Snabb, innovativ och agil framtagning av nationellt Covid-bevis (DIGG and others).
The Most Valuable Use of Tech of the Yearis awarded to the top initiatives/projects or companies/organizations in different sectors, which, through the use of technology and innovation, make an exemplary contribution to solving a need or problem that has a major impact on a market, sector or society at large.
Arash Sangari, Program Manager Startup Sweden, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, has been part of this year's jury:
Arash Sangari, Program Manager Startup Sweden- There have been an incredible number of strong candidates this year and the jury has twisted and turned all the data we received to select the finalists. All of them have shown creativity and created services that really contributed to the effective use of tech and made a difference to the target group.
The winning entry will be presented at Tech Awards Sweden on March 22 at Sergel Hub in Stockholm.
Finalists in the 'Most valuable use of tech of the year' category:
BUP Skåne Online (BUP Region Skåne and Innovation Skåne)
BUP (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Region Skåne) has together with ISAB (Innovation Skåne) created a resident service, where they offer anonymous chat, videos and texts about mental health and self-care. The service is developed together with children and young people, digitally native, from secondary schools in Skåne and the target group is children under 18. BUP Online has taken great responsibility for paving the way for the Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice by building a resident service together with the region's young people that supports vulnerable young people to seek help and get advice and support in time. Service design with a child rights perspective are the key words.
Your ECPAT/Safe upload (Sticky Beat and ECPAT)
Sticky Beat and ECPAT Sweden have entered into a unique collaboration that has so far helped to take down thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos that are spread beyond their control online. Sticky Beat and ECPAT have created a secure, encrypted and anonymized upload tool that allows children to submit abusive images that are taken down using a combination of advanced technology and international cooperation.Thanks to the upload tool, ECPAT is now able to help children and young people take down sexually abusive images and videos from the internet in a simple, quick and safe way. Sticky Beat has made a complicated technology such as end-to-end encryption easily accessible and understandable to users, and the transfer is safe for all parties. Being able to take down images and videos that have been shared leads to improved mental health and an opportunity to process the abuse suffered by the child.
GPT-SW3 (AI Sweden with partners)
AI Sweden, together with RISE and WASP WARA Media & Language, is developing a large-scale generative language model for the Nordic languages, primarily Swedish. GPT-SW3 is the first truly large-scale generative language model for the Swedish language. Based on the same technical principles as the much-discussed GPT-3, GPT-SW3 will help Swedish organizations build language applications never before possible. NaturalLanguageProcessing (NLP) is key to many tasks and underpins a range of AI applications, not least in the public sector, the use of language models can create enormous value.
Fast, innovative and agile development of national Covid certificate (DIGG and others)
On behalf of the government, DIGG led the development of the Covid certificate in record time. The development was done in broad collaboration with the Swedish eHealth Agency (which is currently responsible for the service), several other authorities, organizations and tech providers, such as SopraSteria. Covidbevis is a service that issues digital proof of vaccination, testing and recovery to enable travel during the pandemic. Until the end of 2022, over 18 million Covid certificates were issued. Over 6.4 million individuals have taken out a digital COVID certificate in Sweden. The solution was also developed with a verification app to gain access to events during a period that would otherwise have been closed to public events.The project shows that it is possible to create complex, large and user-friendly services in a short time. Several of the components and processes can be reused or further developed in some way, for example in other resident services.
The jury consisted of:
Beatrice Silow, Head of Communications and Culture, Nexer Group
Haval van Drumpt, CEO, Tre Sverige
Joakim Djurberg, Journalist, Computer Sweden / Foundry
Per Schlingmann, Entrepreneur, Author, Lecturer
Arash Sangari, Program Manager Startup Sweden, Tillväxtverket
Ulrika Lindstrand, President, Sveriges Ingenjörer
Anna Eriksson, Director General, DIGG - Swedish Agency for Digital Government
Lena Miranda, CEO Linköping Science Park
Richard Oehme, Senior Advisor, Knowit Cybersecurity & Law
Mattias Höjer, Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis and Futures Studies, KTH
Johanna Giorgi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Addsecure.
Åsa Zetterberg, Association Director, TechSverige (jury chair)