Offentlig PaaS meetup at Telenor Norway, Fornebu

This week we in Cloud Platforms (Telenor Norway) hosted the Offentlig PaaS community meetup at Fornebu, within Telenor’s campus. Offentlig PaaS is a network for technologists in public sector in Norway, that focuses on whose who build and operate digital services, with large focus on platforms, application, architecture and security. It was started by NAV and Skatteetaten in 2017, and has grown over the years to become a large and active community, with almost 3000 members, that comes together and share and help each other to solve problems.

The theme of this week’s meetup was self-service, with topics covering both the technical and the non-technical aspects that are essential to understand when working on self-service within the cloud space. At Cloud Platforms, we’ve adopted a platform-as-a-product approach, prioritizing customer feedback and understanding their needs. Our goal is not only to empower users to provision capabilities independently but also to identify which capabilities deliver the most value. This customer-centric mindset remains central to Nova’s ongoing development.

Other than Telenor, we had representatives from NAV, Vy and Kartverket to talk about what they were doing within this space. NAV showed off their NAIS platform, and how they have taken the steps over the last years, to where they are today with a full-fledged front end that their customers can use to self-serve themselves within their platform. Vy talk focused around their perspective into product development and how this have helped them in their self-service journey, and Kartverket showed off how they used self-service within their data platform, and their journey going from a lot of systems with a lot of data spread around, to figuring out who the customer is and how they have made their data available through self-service. Really inspiring talks by everyone, offering a lot of insight and will be a great inspiration for us in Cloud Platforms as we continue to advance with our self-service journey.

The turnout of the meetup was great, with almost 100 attendance that was in place in Fornebu, and around 50 online throughout the day.

Thanks everyone for joining and sharing, and great to chat and meet you all!