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I wanted to digitalize Finland. But because my initial period was so short, I was really just looking into what were we really supposed to do and what had we promised to do. Things like X-Road implementation and suomi.fi delivery was one of the only high-level priorities handed to us.

In addition, we came up with a set of proposals that were the big reforms or projects that could make a big change for digitalizing Finland. It included things such as making a push for open data. I have always been trying to see the big picture and what creates benefit for Finland. I always said I was working for company Oy Suomi Ab—the country.⁴ The government was very focused on increasing employment in Finland at the time, so our proposals played into that. For example, doing an income register could allow people to take up more short-term work without upending their unemployment benefits like before.

We actually wanted to make a new full digital government strategy, but then we got a new government with 2015 elections, and digitalization was made a cross-cutting theme in the whole of the government program. We were not allowed to do a strategy of our own, because it was felt that this would duplicate the government program. We made an internal strategy for the department, nevertheless. The government program gave us the concrete overall direction for it.