“This appointment is less about a title and more about responsibility. I have a responsibility to use my experience and voice to make technology useful for people, businesses, and society,” says Liv Dingsør, this year’s DIG Fellow.
This distinction is awarded to a person outside academia who is visible in the public discourse on DIG’s research areas: digital innovations for sustainable growth. Liv Dingsør is the CEO of Digital Norway, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the digitalization of Norwegian business.
“Through her leadership role in Digital Norway, Liv Dingsør has been a key driving force in developing digital competence, innovation, and collaboration between business, academia, and the public sector in Norway. She has played an important role in bridging research and practice and has made complex topics such as digital transformation and artificial intelligence understandable and relevant to a broad audience,” said Bram Timmermans, head of DIG, in his reasoning for selecting Liv Dingsør as this year’s DIG Fellow.
The annoucement was made during the DIG Summit 2025.
He adds that as an NHH alumna, Dingsør has a strong connection to the school and shares many of the values that underpin DIG’s work—knowledge-based development, critical reflection, and responsible innovation.
Liv Dingsør emphasizes that she shares this award with the owners, members, and employees who engage in the collective effort for digitalization that Digital Norway represents.
“In Digital Norway, we have worked for many years to connect research, technology environments, and businesses—especially SMEs—so that insights are actually applied and create value. That DIG recognizes this is a strong motivation to continue sharing, learning, and building bridges at a pace that matches the speed of technological developments that will soon affect everything around us,” she continues.
“And I appreciate receiving this from NHH, as I am an NHH alumna from 2004,” she adds.
Liv Dingsør hopes to use her position as DIG Fellow to inspire DIG to become clearer in its role as a connector that translates research into decision-making tools, resources, and learning paths that leaders can actually use.
“In the end, it’s about governance and learning over time. We need to know whether AI is actually being adopted and creating value—technologically, organizationally, and ethically—so that measures and competence initiatives can be adjusted along the way,” says Liv Dingsør.
Geopolitics makes digitalization more strategic, explains Liv Dingsør.
“I also believe we will see more of the combination of innovation and preparedness: stronger collaboration on security, compliance, and safe value chains—while developing competence and infrastructure at home, or at least in Europe,” she continues.
“We need to build digital resilience and digital preparedness,” says this year’s DIG Fellow.
