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Elderly woman sitting on a couch with an open laptop and a paper form in front of her while talking on the phone.
Norway leading in digitalization, but not everyone is benefitting

Digitizing government welfare services is supposed to help make services more accessible to everyone. Are they unintentionally leaving people behind?

Two people searching for something in a book at a library.
Making universal design truly universal

Examples of universal design are all around us but mostly focus on helping people with physical disabilities while designers often forget about accommodating cognitive disabilities.

People in summer clothes walking across the Oslo Fjord on a floating bridge with the city of Oslo in the background.
The oil fund will not be there for our grandchildren

A close look at the principles governing the management of Norway’s oil fund shows that it may run out in two generations or less.