Digital Transformation and Public Services Societal Impacts in Sweden and Beyond

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Notes on contributors

Foreword: digital transformation of public services – how and why?

FRANCIS ANDREW GAFFNEY

Acknowledgments

1 An introduction to digital welfare: a way forward?

ANTHONY LARSSON AND ROBIN TEIGLAND

PART I Health and social care

2 Telemedicine and the welfare state: the Swedish experience

MÅRTEN BLIX AND JOHANNA JEANSSON

3 Welfare services in an era of digital disruption: how digitalization reshapes the health care market

ANTHONY LARSSON, OLIVIA ELF, CORINNA GROSS, AND JULIA ELF

4 Centralization vs. decentralization on the blockchain in a health information exchange context

ANNA ESSÉN AND ANDERS EKHOLM

5 Digitalization of health in Sweden to benefit patients

JOHN ØVRETVEIT

6 Personalized predictive health care: how predictive AI platforms will transform the health care industry

DANIEL WÄNN

7 Digital dentistry: a solution to the dentistry crisis?

ANTHONY LARSSON AND DOMINIKA SABOLOVÁ

8 Solutions based on digital connected devices for social care and well-being

ANDRES LAYA AND JAN MARKENDAHL

PART II Education

9 Educational technology (EdTech): unbounded opportunities or just another brick in the wall?

CORMAC MCGRATH AND ANNA ÅKERFELDT

10 Education at the intersection: a practitioner’s view of the effect of digital transformation on public education

STEPHEN MAHALEY

PART III Citizen protection

11 Citizen protection: a capabilities and intentions framework

MARK A. CONLEY AND EMILY NAKKAWITA

12 Societal security: how digitalization enables resilient, agile, and learning capabilities

ARNE NORLANDER

13 Digital identity – beyond verification: to a transparent (decentralized) system for data and identity monitoring and control

CLAIRE INGRAM BOGUSZ

PART IV Future of the welfare state

14 Cashless: a dead end for Sweden?

BJÖRN ERIKSSON AND ULRIKA SANDHILL

15 Future consumption of welfare services: how the change in consumer expectations will affect offerings and business models in welfare

CHARLOTTE MATTFOLK AND LINA EMFELDT

16 The trust revolution: blockchain’s potential to resolve institutional inefficiencies?

ALEJANDRO MORENO PUERTAS AND ROBIN TEIGLAND

17 The future of the nation-state: how the nation-state can find a way through digitalization

MATS LEWAN

18 Digitalization has changed the foundation of the democracy

OLLE WÄSTBERG

19 Conclusion: digital welfare – now and forever?

ANTHONY LARSSON AND ROBIN TEIGLAND

Afterword: technology – the solution to all welfare challenges?

NICHOLAS FORTUGNO

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Biography

Anthony Larsson (Ph.D.) is a researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research (SIR), Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He also holds an MBA and M.Sc. degrees in political science, social anthropology, and business administration and economics respectively, as well as an associate degree in psychology.

Robin Teigland (Ph.D.) is Professor of Management of Digitalization in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Division at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also Professor of Business Administration with a specialization in strategic information systems management at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.