Digital sovereignty in practice
Vendor independence, data and open source as room to act — not as a slogan. The question is who actually controls your digital future.
Speaking
Digital sovereignty
and transformation.
Malin Clarke Isaksson makes digital sovereignty and digital transformation intelligible — from what the organisation needs to technology, vendors and decisions — and leads conversations as a moderator.
Why
Why book Malin.
Transformation that starts in the organisation
Understand needs, people and mandate before you choose technology or a vendor. The same method as in the daily B2B and B2G work.
Journalist as moderator
Ask the right questions, hold several perspectives in the room and take the conversation from the surface to a decision. Grounded in news journalism, Undervaka and a panel during Almedalsveckan.
Offering
Formats to book.
Who owns your digital future?
Digital sovereignty can sound like geopolitics. In a leadership team it is more concrete: who gets access to data, which contracts lock you in, and how much room you have to change direction. The lecture takes the question from dependency to agency — without isolation and without a technology show.
- What digital sovereignty and vendor independence mean in a Swedish organisation
- Where the dependency sits: data, infrastructure, contracts and competence
- Which questions board and management need to ask before the next procurement
Digital transformation that starts in the organisation
Digital transformation often fails because the conversation starts in the system. I reverse the order: what the organisation actually needs, who will carry out the change, and only then which technology, model or vendor is relevant. The seminar gives specialists, decision-makers and operations a shared language.
- A working order from need to solution, not the other way around
- How B2B and B2G dialogues are held when much is not yet defined
- Why change management and competence belong to the transformation, not to the aftermath
From lock-in to room to act
Open source, data and AI are not the point in themselves. The point is control: being able to switch, inspect and continue when a vendor changes terms. The seminar ties technical choices to contracts, operations and daily work — grounded in Digital Openers’ work with digital development, open source and digital sovereignty.
- How vendor lock-in appears in data, cloud and competence
- When open source and open data actually increase room to act
- What has to be true in the organisation for independence to hold
The principle of public access in practice
A documented track from Undervaka 2016–2017: the principle of public access, the Swedish constitution, transparency and the right to public information. The workshop takes the principle from legal text to how it works — or does not work — in municipalities and agencies.
- How the principle of public access works in practice
- Where transparency and access to information fail in public administration
- Dialogue between journalists, lawyers and public administration
Moderator
Panels, debates and conversations.
I lead conversations on digitalisation, sovereignty, openness and the public sector — with a journalistic method: prepare, ask, and hold several perspectives in the room.
As a reporter the habit is to get into a complex field quickly and translate between specialists, decision-makers and an audience. As project lead for Undervaka I created dialogue between journalists, lawyers and public administration, and moderated a panel during Almedalsveckan.
The assignment can be a panel, a debate, a conference conversation or a longer stage programme. I prepare questions, structure and pace so the conversation is more than a row of speeches.
On stage
What has been done.
In 2016–2017 I lectured and ran workshops on the principle of public access in my own practice around Undervaka, including for Lunds universitet, Umeå kommun, Scouternas Folkhögskola and DokumentINFO.
The same project included a panel during Almedalsveckan. The current lectures on digital sovereignty and digital transformation are grounded in the work as CEO and co-owner of Digital Openers and in the CV — they are offerings, not a long keynote history.
For whom
Typical rooms.
- Leadership teams and boards
- Public sector and B2G
- Partner days and industry events
- Inspiration days and conferences
- Panels and Almedalen-style conversations
In brief
Who is on stage.
Malin Clarke Isaksson is CEO and co-owner of Digital Openers AB, a journalist and a speaker. She works at the intersection of business, operations, people and technology, and takes assignments as a speaker, moderator, copywriter and freelance journalist.
She is a board member of Open Knowledge Sweden. The full record is in the CV.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Which formats can we book?
Inspiration lecture, seminar, workshop, and moderator for a panel, debate or conference conversation. Length is adapted, typically 20–90 minutes.
Which languages?
Swedish as a native language and English at a professional level.
Is this a technology lecture?
No. The starting point is operations, mandate and dependency — then technology. I am not the specialist in every stack; I am the one who asks the questions and translates between the rooms.
How do we book?
Call, email or write on LinkedIn. Describe the occasion, audience and preferred format and I will get back to you.