10 commandments for digitalization
To prepare for a data-driven future and the fourth industrial revolution - i.e. digitalization - Norway needs to introduce 10 data laws to keep up with the times. That's according to technology opportunist Silvija Seres.

Fifty years ago, the Norwegian Parliament's Industry Committee came up with a list of 10 oil policy commandments. This was to ensure appropriate management of oil. The "stone tablets" obviously said something right, because today Norway is one of the world's richest countries.
Author of the book "Staten og Dataen" (formerly Digital Dugnad), mathematician and technology investor Silvija Seres, believes that Norway should now introduce a similar framework to manage the "new oil".
According to Seres, in line with the oil policy commandments, we must also ensure appropriate data management. In the Ekko broadcast on NRK P2 on 3 March 2021, she therefore lists ten commandments for digitization.
We need to know what we want to do with data and how to use it to create resources and value for Norway
Silvija Seres, on Ekko - NRK P2 (03.03.2021)
The 10 data commandments:
A direction and set of rules on how to align our data. Traffic rules for each sector.
The value created by data in the future should accrue to those who have created it. We need to share the data that private and commercial companies have acquired (so that the public can also benefit from collected information) - e.g. health data.
We must have an appropriate development of infrastructure (broadband, 5G, etc.) to be able to utilize data in a good way.
Infrastructure enables new technology, e.g. sensors. 5G is ten to fifteen times faster than its predecessor 4G. Business and healthcare are among the institutions that can benefit from 5G.
We have to take the necessary risks, we're not going to do anything new without failing, and we have to create space to try new things.
Computer processing power develops and doubles in capability every 18 months (Moore's Law). The problem is that all economic models for growth, strategy and management are based on linear growth - an annual percentage increase that is not compatible with the exponential growth and processing power of computers.
Technological development should not be the preserve of technology moguls, Silicon Valley students and subject matter experts. Everyone needs to be part of the development, and everyone should take part in the technology opportunism and feel included.
You are never trained. Even if you've received a diploma as proof that you've completed your education, technology development still continues. Managers and supervisors need to celebrate employees who learn new things.
Schemes that stimulate and make it profitable to invest in new technology must be put in place, and the mantra " Opportunity - not cost" should be printed out and hung in every meeting room across the country.
According to Seres, Norway is a world leader in certain public services. Altinn, NAV, BRReg are examples of this. Can we use this as a platform to align all our public and private data in the right way, and build the world's best public sector - and then sell it as an export item?
Would you like to hear more about the 10 commandments of digitalization?
Listen to Silvija Seres in the EKKO broadcast on 03.03.2021. In the question and answer session, they look at climate, the environment and the individual and ask: What can you and I actually do for the climate?
With Kristine Laake, Anja Bakken Riise and Dag O. Hessen.