About Smarter community building

The government's stated goal is that Sweden should be the best in the world at using the possibilities of digitization. When it comes to the community building process, it´s about:

• Short lead times
• Get better support for handling sustainability issues and
• Speed up housing construction.

For housing construction, digitization will make it easier, faster and more predictable for developers as well as individual property owners. With easily accessible digital information, the community building process is made more efficient by shortening processing times, we get better quality in decision making and legal certainty is strengthened.

That´s why we digitize

In short, the aim is a common specification instead of several, in the worst case 290, and that the data should be comparable, reusable and accessible. It becomes:

• Easier for citizens and businesses
• More efficient processes with standardized information At the municipalities and in the municipalities' dialogue with State authorities
• Safer information management
• Strengthened conditions for innovation and renewal.

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In order to achieve a digital society building process, we need to ensure that information, law and technology are designed so that it is possible to use the possibilities of digitization. The goal is to build solutions that follow the principles of digitization, such as:

• The information is uniform, nationally available and in digital form
• The process is digital and supported by existing national solutions such as "My messages".
• The dialogue takes place digitally and is based on all actors reading information from a common source.
• Automation is enabled and implemented for simpler cases.

How do we get there?

The community building process is driven by many actors, with many different tasks.

Enabling digital handling in the process requires a close collaboration between all of these, as digitization goes straight through ordinary structures.

As a selection of all these actors, we have authorities that have tasks that influence the design of the process together with all of Sweden's municipalities that realize large parts of it.

It is also a challenge for us authorities to understand and adapt our operations in our ordinary role to a digital context.

Our ambition with our collaboration is to be able to communicate and act together to achieve the most benefit with our respective efforts.

To achieve this, there is a structured collaboration at strategic, tactical and operational level.i

In addition to authorities and municipalities, there is also collaboration with:

• The municipalities' system suppliers
• The Geodata Council
• Innovation program
• The construction industry and
• Consultants.

Government assignment to drive digitalisation

In November 2023, Lantmäteriet was commissioned by the government to develop a roadmap for continued digitalisation of the spatial planning process.

The assignment included:

• Coordinate ongoing initiatives and report on positions on nationally strategic issues
• Inform about which actor is responsible for what in the development work
• Specify the conditions and goals to be achieved and when they should be achieved
• Provide proposals for constitutional amendments and proposals for funding.

The final report on the assignment was submitted on 30 April 2024. You can read more and take part of the final report here (in Swedish).

The National Geodata Platform

The goal of the National Geodata Platform is to provide access to nationally standardized basic data in various processes in society. The focus of the platform's data sets today lies within the digital society building process.

First up are detailed plans, plan descriptions and buildings. Intensive work is now underway with, among other things, overview plans, ancient monuments, geotechnical soil investigations and core points.

The National geodata platform (NGP) (opens in new window) has laid the foundation for being able to digitize the information required for a digitally unbroken community-building process in collaboration between authorities.