Digital transformation for collective well-being, Sara Öhrvall – SICS Open House 2017

The ongoing digital transformation promises to spur innovation, generate efficiencies across a wide range of activities – and improve well-being. It seems like we are on the cusp of a major societal transformation, but the precise impact of that shift remains uncertain. Is it possible to design a “whole-of-society” approach for navigating the digital transformation, to avoid that policies in one area will have unintended, possibly adverse impacts on another. Since there is no guarantee that the benefits of technology would be distributed evenly, what actions are needed to promote inclusion?