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Responsibilities

It is responsible for help the public sector achieve quality, efficiency, user friendliness, openness and participation, as well as helping the public sector be organized and led in a good way with good intersectoral cooperation. It provides

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for the public sector and operates several

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s on behalf of the Government.

History

The agency was created on January 1, 2008 and is based in

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and

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. It was created after a merger of Statskonsult, the Norwegian eProcurement Secretariat and Norge.no. Director from the start was Hans Christian Holte. He left the position in summer 2013 to become director of the

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. Utheim, Midtsjø (30 October 2013) Ingelin Killengreen was hired as interim director with start December 2013.Killengreen skal lede Difi

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. Retrieved 20 November 2013

References

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