This Friday we have a special "Scandinavian edition" of the Europe roundup, brought to you by PDF friend Bente Kalsnes.
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• Norway | The Prime Minister is in the playground
  The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is inviting bloggers to his office this week to discuss about the government's new website, Samarbeid for Arbeid (which means, more or less, "working for collaboration"). The website is made of a blog and a Twitter aggregator, sorted by four topics. If bloggers or Twitter users want the Prime Minister to read their posts, they can register the blog or tag tweets with predefined keywords.

  The purpose is to invite more people to join the online discussion about sick leave, school drop outs, economy and innovation. But for now no-one can comment on the site, it is pure aggregator. The Norwegian government (or more correctly, the government's web department) has also started a beta blog, which they call "playground for new technology and new content": the aim is testing new ideas and encouraging dialogue. Both of these initiatives are built on Wordpress.

• Denmark | The economic potential of public data
  Millions of dollars, at least 110 million dollars - that is the economic potential from reuse of public data. That is the conclusion from a new report written by Gartner for the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency. EU has measured the economic potential of public data to be 37 billion dollars. Especially map based data is of high value, as well as enviromental - and trafic related data, argues Garter. Similar arguments were recently found in The Economist.

• Sweden | Social media policy? Not really.
  Only 7 percent of Swedish companies have a social media strategy, according to a survey by Manpower. The equivalent figure for the rest of the world is 20 percent.

• Norway | Hell's Angels for journalism
  Is this the most beautiful Hell's Angels mashup you've ever seen? The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's investigative journalism group Brennpunkt has mashed info about Hells Angels members with tax info, criminal records and corporate info, as well as put the Angels on a map.

• Norway | In a foreign country, and also on social media
  Norwegian embassies on social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Flickr) - here is the official list from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.