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This week the Danish Council of Greater IT-security has been inaugurated - and I'm pleased to announce that I have been elected Chairman of the Board

As this is a new organisation supported by 21 organisations and it-security experts being Chairman means hard work. And we have big ambitions ...

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In my 9th column I discussed the future trends and directions of the knowledge society. And with a special note on how this will impact the common school of Denmark - or at least how it should impact the school system.

I realized that something interesting is going on in the world of knowledge sharing - in my head we are currently transforming from knowledge-gathers to knowledge-innovators. 

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Yesterday the Danish Board of Technology announced the report: "Citizens IT-security" where they proposed several initiatives to help citizens become more it-security agile.

Eventhough some of the suggestions are controversial, I think that we need to do something - it is now time to really make sure that we have citizens to trust the common infrastructure - and that they can trust the services that are provided digital.

I have had the pleasure to comment the report for two months ago - and I'm pleased that some of my thinking has been reflected in the report.

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I was today interviewed by the national radio (www.tv2radio.dk) in the show called "Nyhedsministeriet" on the Pentagon annual report - especially on the fact that the chineese government is sponsoring and supporting hacking activities aimed to distort US military capability.

Below a summary of the interview and some further comments...

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IT-security ...

Many sees this as a nerdy disciplin and do not really understand the consequences of lack of it-security. And this leads to faulty conclusions and strategies.

Recently the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation choosen to inaugurate a new committee on IT-security - and the colum this time is about how "Old school" and how stuck in the 80's the operationalization of this area is on the Danish agenda.

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I admit that I like Star Trek - TNG especially. Which by the way stands for The Next Generation, a subject often pursued here at the Digitized Service Society blog.

One of the espisodes in STTNG is dealing with the consequences of breaking the prime directive (which states loosely that you may not interfere with minor cultures societal development) as the question becomes: "Who watches the watcher?"

In my 6th column in Børsen - the largest business daily in Denmark - I address the challenges that the government faces as they allow more and more video-survailance - and the question is: Who is watching the watchers? - or in Danish "Hvem overvåger overvågerne?". 

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The next generation of it-security thought leadership have been realized in Denmark - with the creation of the Council of Greater IT-security (in Danish: Rådet for større IT-sikkerhed) - an independent advisory board and action comittee focused on leveraging the challenges of it-security in the now and next digitized service society.

And I'm pleased to be named (temp) chairman of the awareness raising and knowledge comittee.

The press coverage can be found here (will be updated):

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Computerworld
Berlingske
JyllandsPosten
TV2 News
BT
Urban
Børsen

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In Danish law the right behavior, the person that do what expected, is called "Bonus Pater". I would like to extend that notion to the Digitized Service Society.

We need to define the role model that stands as the best example of a citizen in the digital service society - what will such a person do, how will he act and so forth...

Needless to say there are moral issues and other legal issues that can be included - but in my point of view these are relevant but not part of the model currently.

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