A workshop for women interested in coding at the Malmö offices of games developer King has sold out in just 20 minutes, showing the growing female interest in the traditionally male profession.
Sweden faces a deficit of 70,000 digital professionals by 2022 if a number of measures including promoting migration of skilled workers are not taken, a report predicts.
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has commented for the first time on a cyber security slip-up that made top secret police databases available to foreign IT workers.
Swedish kids are set to learn programming from their first year of primary school, as the country's government introduces an improved digital competence aspect to the curriculum designed to make the tech savvy Swedes even better with computers.
Sana Abdullah says that determination and learning the language are key to fitting in and finding work in Sweden - and no-one cares if you look different.
Authorities have called for a full investigation into a network failure that knocked out large parts of Swedish air traffic and closed Stockholm airspace last week.
In an effort to ensure Sweden remains a leading IT nation, policymakers have sought help from an usual panel of experts: a group of kids, some of whom have yet to reach their teens. The Local's Sanna Håkansson finds out more.
A majority of Swedish business, IT and science engineering students would like to land a job with Google, according to the 2013 Ideal Employer Rankings.
Industrial espionage directed against Swedish companies and research institutions is on the rise, according to intelligence officials, prompting new inter-agency intelligence coordination to protect national security.
Doctors were forced to suspend treatment of a patient with a heart condition when the hospital's IT department suddenly took control of a medical computer, the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) reported on Friday.
Only seven percent of Swedish firms operate a formal policy for how employees may use social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter during working hours.
<i><b>New Swedish companies are bursting with ideas in IT and biotech. It's time for international investors to sit up and take notice, says leading entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein.</b></i>
A large-scale attack on Sweden's computer infrastructure could paralyse the country within hours, experts have warned. The government needs to act now to ensure the security of Sweden's vital services and functions, they say.
Earlier this week a decision was taken by the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) to back Microsoft's bid to have its Office Open XML (OOXML) format accepted as the international standard for electronic documents.
In a windowless room in a Gothenburg office block Maria Larsson sits in front of the Swedish tax board's new secret weapon: a special computer programme which will hunt tax dodgers in cyberspace. And Larsson has high hopes for the software, expecting it to sniff out millions of kronor in undeclared tax.
