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UNESCO has stated that today digital literacy
has become as important as reading and writing,
mathematics and social skills.
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As a high-tech
company Telenor Norway fully realises how digital
skills can be of great importance to individuals'
quality of life. As well as learning how new means
of communication function in purely technical
terms you also have to learn the golden rules
of communication on digital platforms. Telenor
Norway has been working with the Norwegian
Media Authority, the Norwegian Red Cross and the
parents' organisation Kids and Media for several
years to increase young Norwegians' digital skills
through a campaign which we call use your head.
You can read more about use your head in the
chapter safety and security.
Welfare technology was one of our main target
areas in 2012. We will continue to work intensively
to develop this area further, but in 2013 we will
also make cyber security a new main target area in
Telenor norway's corporate responsibility.
Within Telenor we have been working for a number
of years to make our networks and systems as
secure as possible and we have accumulated solid
expertise in this field. At the very end of 2012 we
entered into a partnership agreement with the
Norwegian Armed Forces Information Infrastructure
Agency about exchanging information and
expertise. The Norwegian Armed Forces
Information Infrastructure Agency is the branch of
the military which operates, secures and defends
the Norwegian armed forces' computer systems,
networks and high-tech platforms against attacks
within and from the cyber domain. The armed
forces and Telenor Norway are two of Norway's
biggest owners of infrastructure which is critical for
society, and this agreement provides the framework
for a closer partnership to increase information
security in Norwegian society. In 2013 Telenor
Norway aims to increase awareness in society
about the significance of good cyber security.
We at Telenor Norway want to make our collective
expertise available to Norwegian society. We hope
you will find it interesting to read about this in our
corporate responsibility report for 2012.
Happy reading!


Berit Svendsen
Managing Director of Telenor Norway
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"(D)igital literacy is as relevant as traditional literacies ­ such
as reading and writing, mathematics, or the management of
social behavior." UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in
Education: digital literacy in education, published May 2011.