This week, Salvör Norðdal, the Ombudsman for Children, and Herdís Gunnarsdóttir, the director of the Welfare Quality and Inspection Authority, met with experts from both institutions.

Two members of the Reykjavík City Council's gardening department recently paid a visit to the Land and Forest Iceland office in Mógilsá. They presented the office with an old podium, handcrafted for the department years ago from local Icelandic wood.

Iceland ranks fourth in the annual survey of digital public services (eGovernment Benchmark) by the European Union, but in recent years Iceland has risen rapidly up the list.

Digital Iceland and Defend Iceland have signed an agreement to cooperate in the field of cybersecurity. The purpose of the agreement is to use Defend Iceland’s bug bounty to detect security vulnerabilities in Digital Iceland’s systems and thereby increase and strengthen the defense against cyber attacks.

The Blind community, Sjónstöðin, the Sports Association for the Disabled and Reykjadalur, under the guidance of the University of Reykjavík, will hold skills camps for children and young people aged 9 to 25 from 11 to 13 October.

The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has issued new instructions on mediation. New instructions significantly expand mediation.

Jóhanna Ósk Baldvinsdóttir has taken over her new job at TR as a client Ombudsman. The principal role of the Ombudsman is to guide clients in handling cases with the agency and assist those who feel that they have not received material discussion or resolution in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.

The activity is growing constantly.

Iceland participates in a new multi-country consortium of Europe’s most trusted identity experts and will take part in delivering a large-scale, cross-border payments pilot strongly aligned with the aims of the European Commission’s EU digital identity wallet program.

Safety Director Helgi Haraldsson at VÍS Prevention Conference.