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Sweden tops the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010, released today by the World Economic Forum. The report highlights the key role of ICT as an enabler of a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world in the aftermath of one of the most serious economic crises in decades. Sweden is followed by Singapore and Denmark, which was in the number one position for the last three years.

Read more: Sweden tops rankings of global technology report for first time

Most of the Swedish Banks are in the move towards making their customers become electronic citizens, by equipping their customers with a banking card that also contains an electronic identity. This enables the customers to access eGovernment functions, and making it more convenient for be an electronic citizen.

Banks need to equip their customers with a security solution, and each government agency alone don’t make a business case. Therefore the Banks in Sweden are reselling identity towards all agencies, and thereby achieving cost-savings, and together create a win-win situation. Maria Repitsch interviewed (In Swedish) Kay Kojer, business developer at the Swedish Tax Agency.

Read more: Sweden: eGovernment brings massive cost savings

Swedish public administrations should publish their data in an open format, says Peter Krantz, a government IT worker, speaking under personal title. Krantz earlier this month launched a website, Opengov.se, showing whether public data is available or not, and listing data formats.

"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'

The Global Trust Council (GTC) is in negotiations with the Swedish government to create an internationally recognised e-health framework.

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.

Read more: Sweden and GTC build e-health framework

Sweden rolled out the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary initiative last month, according to the project's partnering IT vendors, InterSystems and Tieto. The nationwide EHR is billed as one of the first of its kind in the world.

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

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