The non-profit, international organisation based in Sweden is in talks with the government on how organisations can reduce the risk of fraud through new methods of digital identity verification and how they can improve privacy and security issues to reduce data loss.
"On opengov.se I want to make visible how data is tucked away in the Swedish public sector. I hope this will result in more of this data becoming available", Krantz explains on the site.
Read more: 'Swedish public data should be published in open formats'
New York City-based think tank Intelligent Community Forum has named Stockholm, Sweden, as the 2009 Intelligent Community of the Year. The annual gathering of global best-practices communities emphasized a "culture of use," not just access to broadband technology or "households passed" availability.
The aim of the project, known as NPÖ, is to improve patient security and quality of care by rolling out the national electronic health record in stages. The first of these stages saw the implementation of the records across the Örebro County Council and the municipality of Örebro.
Read more: Sweden launches national electronic health record
The new e-health strategy focuses on the need to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to achieve improvements for patients, health professionals and decision-makers.