`A PhD at NHH is a fantastic opportunity´
After only six months as a PhD candidate, Lene Mortensen received an award for her research project. `Highly promising, ´ noted the committee.
Expert Committee: Strengthening National Control Over Digital Infrastructure
An expert committee, including NHH professor Kenneth Fjell, has assessed how the state can ensure national control over critical digital communication infrastructure.
Today, Minister of Digitalization and Public Governance, Karianne Tung, receives the committee’s report. The committee has evaluated how various measures, such as regulation and state ownership, can contribute to improved national control over digital communication infrastructure, particularly mobile and broadband networks.
The committee was appointed by the government in January 2024 and consists of nine members—experts from academia, the private sector, and public administration. One of the members is Professor Kenneth Fjell from the Department of Accounting, Auditing, and Law at NHH.
Rapid change
The committee has examined digital communication infrastructure that is crucial for national security, societal security, and critical public functions.
In its report, the committee highlights that it does not make sense to establish a static description of what constitutes necessary national control over critical digital infrastructure. The rapid pace of change in digital infrastructures, their use, and their applications makes such a definition outdated over time.
Continuous efforts
Similarly, changes in corporate structures mean that mechanisms ensuring national control over each individual infrastructure may also need to evolve over time.
Therefore, the committee has focused on proposing measures for how the state should organize its continuous efforts to establish and maintain necessary national control over critical digital infrastructure.
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These measures are partly generic and not exclusively tied to specific infrastructures, meaning they could also be applicable to other sectors.