Chapter 8: Pointing the digital way forward in government, Jarkko Levasma & Ville-Veikko Ahonen, Ministry of Finance of Finland

About this episode

The episode discusses the current and future implications of digitalization in government and society.

What should everyone know about digitalization right now and moving into the future? How does digitalization shape our life, work and society? What makes digitalization humane? This book invites the reader into a great Finnish story. It provides a uniquely broad overview of digitalization as told by the changemakers. It has the courage to question and challenges people to act. The author, Martti Vaalahti, is a communications professional and writer who has worked with digitalization for over two decades. This book is published by Gofore Plc, translated from the Finnish by Ian Mac Eochagáin, and read by Annabel Baldwin.

People in this episode

Guests: Jarkko Levasma, Ville-Veikko Ahonen

Topics covered

• digitalization
• government
• society
• future of work

Keywords

• Finnish story
• changemakers
• humane digitalization

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Gofore Plc

Places: Finland

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