1. Information Society-
A Global Challenge
Charlotte Brogren Director General
VINNOVA
Sweden’s innovation agency
www.VINNOVA.se

2. VINNOVA develops
Sweden’s innovation
capacity for
sustainable growth

3. Sweden a leading ICT-nation
• 1885 - Stockholm worlds most telephone dense city in the world
• 1956 - 1st automatic mobile phone system
• 6,3 Million Swedes or 91 percent are connected to Internet in their
homes.
• Nine of ten persons use Internet on a regular basis.
• 85 per cent has a broadband connection.
• Between the years 2000 and 2005 estimated 33 per cent of productivity
raise in private sector in Sweden could relate to ICT.

4. Information society– a challenge for
the society
• Integrity (risk for not permitted controls and
surveillance of individuals);
• Security (criminal acts, as information leakage,
fraud);
• Accessibility
• High innovationprogress, need of
competence, knowledge
• Empowering all industries and sectors