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individual relates to subjects such as organisational and behavioural science. The
development of self-driving cars and intelligent cities raises, for example,
sociotechnical, legal and ethical issues that relate directly to cyber security.
The Government Bill Collaborating for knowledge – for society’s challenges and
strengthened competitiveness (Government Bill 2016/17:50) presents a number of
strategic research investments focusing on particular areas, one of which is the
Research Centre for Future Digital Transformation Technology. In the bill, the
Government points out that it is very important that new technology forming the
basis of critical infrastructure is robust and secure since adequate security must be
built into these systems from the beginning. To facilitate such a development, open
access to research results is very important. The Government believes that research
results, such as research data and academic publications, that are produced with
public funding should be openly available as far as possible.
On 1 June 2016, the Government presented five strategic innovation partnership
programmes to help meet a range of the societal challenges that Sweden is facing.
The fifth innovation partnership programme, Connected industry and new materials,
focuses on stimulating broad digital transformation of Swedish industry through
mobilisation in the form of cooperation between actors. Partnership must be
strengthened between established industry, IT and telecom companies, service
companies, innovative young companies at the forefront of digitalisation and various
research environments to better help maintain and increase Sweden’s
competitiveness. A special working group under the innovation partnership
programme is working to propose solutions in the area of cyber security. The
strategic innovation partnership programmes are an important instrument for
increasing the quality and benefit of higher education, research and development.
One aspect of this is the potential to coordinate the investments of different
stakeholders and generate synergy effects.
It is the Government’s assessment that long-term partnership and cooperation
between relevant stakeholders needs to continue being developed in the area of
cyber security.
The Government will work to
enhance partnerships between higher education institutions, industrial research
institutes and the private and public sectors in order to increase utilisation and
innovation in the area of cyber security,
take cyber security into account in all strategic innovation partnership
programmes.
Training activities
Objective:
Both cross-sectoral and technical cyber security training is to be carried out
regularly in order to enhance Sweden’s capability to manage the consequences of
serious IT incidents.
A significant component for increasing knowledge and enhancing the capability of
activities to manage serious IT incidents is education and training. Regular national
and international training is a prerequisite for developing and evaluating structures
to manage serious IT incidents and for identifying organisational, technical and
administrative development needs. Training can be used to
validate policies, plans, procedures, equipment and agreements between
organisations,
train personnel with respect to their roles and responsibilities,
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