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Digitalisation and ICT in the public sector
The statistics provides information on digitalization and use of ICT in the public sector. The public sector consists of the central government, municipalities and county municipalities. The topics covered are digitalization measures, digital services, digital purchases, sharing and use of open data, information security and ICT security, and ICT competence.
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- Major barriers to the development of digital services. Per centDownload table as ...Major barriers to the development of digital services. Per cent
2024 Is a barrier to a large or very large extent Central government Municipalities County municipalities Difficult to release resources for development work 67.5 76.8 57.1 Higher ICT costs than expected 52.6 65.5 42.9 Dependent on development in other public or private enterprises 49.3 51.1 28.6 Lack of skills in the enterprise 37.8 53.1 28.6 Lack of adjustments in the legislation and regulations 35.9 30.2 35.7 Lack of joint public digital services and infrastructure 30.6 50.3 35.7 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - ICT spesialists recruitment. Per cent.Download table as ...ICT spesialists recruitment. Per cent.
Have recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists during the last year Percentage of those who recruited/tried to but had problems with recruitment 2023 2024 2023 2024 Central government 64.6 65.6 88.1 82.5 Municipalities 55.5 48.6 72.1 74.4 County municipalities 100.0 85.7 90.0 91.7 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Sharing of open data. Per cent.Download table as ...Sharing of open data. Per cent.
Shares open data 2023 2024 Central government 61.8 64.1 Municipalities 48.7 56.5 County municipalities 80.0 57.2 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 24 June 2024.
Governmental enterprises: some of the respondents report on behalf of all units in a directorate, the reporting unit usually representing the central decision-making authority in the hierarchy of an organisation. In such cases, the directorate counts as one unit in the survey.
Employment group: The number of employees in a unit that reports on behalf of a directorate, includes the number of employees in all units in the directorate.
ICT strategy: a document which presents the organization’s goals of and guidelines on the procurement or use of ICT.
Outsourcing: an agreement in which an organization hires an external service provider to carry out ICT-functions.
Cloud computing: the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet).
Social media: employ web- and mobile-based technologies to support interactive dialogue.
Digital services: services which are integrated in the internal systems, and which make it possible to retrieve information from these systems and make it available to external users or which enable external users to submit data that are automatically sent to the internal systems.
ICT expenditures (2011-2012): Include purchase of ICT equipment and lease of computer equipment, purchase and lease of software, and purchase of external services. Expenditures for the enterprises own ICT employees are not included.
ICT expenditures (2018-2020): Include purchase of ICT equipment and lease of computer equipment, purchase and lease of software, purchase of external services, municipality/county municipality ICT expenses for inter-municipal cooperation, ICT related expenditures for digitalization. Value-added tax, leasing of broadband, use of telephone, and expenditures for the enterprises own ICT employees are not included.
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Analyses, articles and publications
Article / 9 May 2017ICT investments lead to staff reductionsIn 2017, 33 per cent of central government activities reported that they planned staff reductions as a result of ICT investments. This is particularly the case in hospital activities.