The North Denmark Area (Area Nordjylland), chargeable for healthcare and social companies in northern Denmark, introduced that it’s taking steps to boost its use of synthetic intelligence (AI).
The area has partnered with the Danish AI platform GRACE from 2021.AI to develop and handle its AI options securely and responsibly.
Through the use of its IT infrastructure, the area ensures that every one important knowledge stays underneath its management whereas totally complying with GDPR.
The announcement comes round one 12 months after the European Synthetic Intelligence Act (AI Act) entered into drive.
2021. AI: Making AI expertise accessible
Mikael Munck based 2021.AI in late 2016 to make superior AI expertise accessible to all organisations.
Since its inception, the Danish agency has helped organisations implement AI via three important elements –fashions, a platform, and governance. The corporate’s GRACE AI platform focuses on accountable and moral AI use consistent with international rules.
At present, 2021, AI operates in 5 areas and has over 75 workers. Moreover, the platform collaborates with greater than 25 companions and has accomplished over 110 AI initiatives worldwide.
GRACE: Hosted within the area’s personal IT infrastructure
The GRACE platform, developed in Denmark, can be hosted on the area’s personal IT infrastructure. This transfer permits the area to keep up full knowledge management whereas guaranteeing compliance with strict European knowledge privateness rules.
A neighborhood IT setup with a domestically hosted AI platform ensures that the area’s important knowledge stays solely underneath its management.
“To execute our AI ambitions securely and responsibly, we would have liked a platform that gives a accountable basis, one that enables us to scale our AI initiatives shortly and effectively and create actual worth with AI,” says Klaus Larsen, CIO of North Denmark Area (Area Nordjylland).
Klaus Larsen, an knowledgeable within the nationwide Public Sector AI Taskforce, sees this funding as key to maintaining North Denmark Area’s management in sensible and accountable AI implementation throughout the Nordics.
Already, the area has over 400 customers working with AI fashions throughout departments—and that’s just the start.
All through 2025, Area Nordjylland plans to broaden its AI portfolio with initiatives targeted on healthcare, administrative effectivity, and citizen-facing companies.
Handles full AI lifecycle
The platform is designed to deal with the total AI lifecycle securely and responsibly—from growth to operations.
It helps all kinds of AI, together with massive language fashions (LLMs), whereas giving organisations the flexibility to centralise governance, documentation, and monitoring of all AI actions.
“It’s improbable to assist the Danish public sector with sensible AI implementation. Safety, duty, and a robust technological basis are important to scaling AI from early pilots to tons of of fashions in manufacturing. The settlement with the North Denmark Area is a significant milestone for us,” says Mikael Munck, CEO and Founding father of 2021.AI.
Local weather Information Company rolls out generative AI to all employees
Becoming a member of this momentum is the Danish Company for Local weather Information (Klimadatastyrelsen), which is now rolling out generative AI instruments to all workers.
In collaboration with Statens IT and 2021.AI, the company has carried out a safe, server-based AI resolution to empower employees whereas sustaining strict knowledge safety protocols.
“We imagine we are able to reap important advantages by utilizing generative AI in our work. That’s why we’re now rolling it out to all our workers. Along with Statens IT and 2021.AI, we’re doing this in a safe atmosphere, so our employees can really feel fully assured utilizing the brand new instruments,” says Rikke Hougaard Zeberg, Director of The Danish Company for Local weather Information.
The rollout of AI to all workers is a part of a broader upskilling initiative that features hands-on coaching and ongoing employees assist.
The AI system is hosted on-premise through Statens IT’s infrastructure, utilizing high-memory GPU servers to run open-source language fashions in full GDPR compliance.
“As an IT supplier to authorities companies, we should be capable to ship options for the brand new applied sciences our shoppers are requesting. On the similar time, we should assure IT safety throughout the general public sector. Along with The Danish Company for Local weather Information, we’ve created a robust resolution that permits a secure rollout of generative AI,” says Michael Ørnø, Director at Statens IT.
Statens IT’s AI infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform helps superior machine studying workloads and customized LLM deployments, giving companies flexibility whereas guaranteeing all knowledge stays inside nationwide borders.
“It’s nothing in need of improbable to have the ability to assist the Danish public sector with safe and accountable AI. Each private and non-private organisations are more and more conscious of the appliance dangers, technical dangers, and regulatory challenges that include AI. This usually implies that generative AI options stay caught within the experimental section and by no means attain manufacturing, the place they ship worth,” says Mikael Munck, CEO and Founding father of 2021.AI.
