30th April 2025

Newsletter April 2024

Newsletter of Digital Iceland in April 2025

Digital Iceland's spring projects

The Digital Iceland team has recently dedicated significant effort to preparing and following up on a new framework agreement. The simplest way to describe the function of this framework agreement is that private sector entities offer their expertise in the form of two types of teams: generalist teams and web teams. This is not about bidding for a specific project, but rather about proposing teams that will participate in development projects and the digital transformation of the public sector in collaboration with Digital Iceland.

This is the third time that Digital Iceland has tendered its software development in this manner, and participation has been strong this time around. Twenty-two entities submitted proposals for generalist teams, and fourteen companies submitted proposals for web teams. The competency assessment of the teams is currently being finalized, and those that meet the criteria will be given the opportunity to work on a project and present their approach.

Projects will be assigned to qualified teams on May 5, and the presentations will take place between May 12 and 14. Following this process, ten teams from each category will be offered participation in the framework agreement.

Application for secondary school

Applications for upper secondary schools are available on Ísland.is. The first applications opened for vocational programs, followed by applications from older students and new applicants coming from compulsory schools. Each spring, upper secondary schools receive around 5,000 applications from new students, all of which now go through the Ísland.is application system.

Look at the application

Quantitative registration of km position

To accommodate those who own multiple vehicles, a simpler method for registering the odometer reading has been developed. Three options are available: manual entry, using an Excel/CSV file, or via a web service.

Registration instrucitons

Electric car subsidies are automatically dispensed

Since the grant program began in January 2024, a total of 3,421 grants have been awarded automatically by the end of the last month.

Read an article on the electric car grants

Development of digital certificates

The biggest changes ahead are that digital certificates will no longer appear in mobile wallets and will only be available in the Ísland.is app, which now supports certificates with barcodes. Additionally, information about the certificates, their validity period, and more will continue to be available on My Pages on Ísland.is.

Progress news Ísland.is

Starting next month, Digital Iceland will send out a special monthly newsletter dedicated to statistical information on the progress of the digitalization of the public sector. The same mailing list will be used to distribute this information.

Release News

Digital Iceland continues to develop and improve digital solutions with regular updates on both core and individual digital services. Release news is a new way to communicate the rapid development that is taking place.

Read about the release on April 22nd.

Meeting of the State's Chief Technology Officers
The Chief Technology Officers of the state aligned their efforts at a successful meeting on April 28th. The current status, upcoming developments, and the next steps in the state's technology matters were discussed. About 50 people attended the meeting.

Digital Iceland’s projects include:

Applications

Acknowledgement of school attendance (primary school)
Changing the primary school
Revocation of old-age pension
Registration of a lease
TR Revenue Plan
Reporting an online crime

Mandatory systems

Mandate for the Director of Enterprise

Admin system

Digital Mailbox statistics for institutions

Meetings/presentations

Crash course for agency frontpages May 21st

Conferences

Connecting the State 18th of September

Website in process

Civil Protection
The District Court
The Government Property Agency
Health care in the capital area
Landspítali National University Hospital
The Police
The Icelandic Centre for Research
The Government Property Agency
Sudurnes Hospital & Health Center
The Master Plan for Nature Protection and Energy Utilization
Complaints Board for Goods and Services

My pages Ísland.is

Prescriptions and Pharmaco history
Place on waiting list

Notifications

Medicinal product licence expires
18th birthday

Digital Mailbox

Interactive communication