1. New service !
innovations!
– in cooperation
with!companies,
public!sector
organizations
and citizens.!!
11/2014
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2. Content
Introduction to Forum Virium Helsinki
•! Mission, vision, and members
Examples of Innovation Initiatives
1.! Harnessing the innovation capacity!of the
urban community: CitySDK, Code Fellows,
Apps4Finland, Helsinki Loves Developers
2.! Piloting digital city card and city as an
interface
3.! Enabling innovation communities:
Smart Kalasatama
4.! Supporting the growth of SME s
5.! Building international networks
6.! 6Aika: Finland’s largest cities cooperating
with the Six City Strategy
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3. Cultivating
Urban
Innovations
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4. New service innovations
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations and citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.
Picture:Rodeo

5. Empowering
and harnessing
the innovation
capacity of
urban
community
Picture: Thinkstock

6. Mission
Forum Virium Helsinki is
an!innovator and an initiator
of new kind of cooperation
between companies,
public!sector!organizations and
citizens. The aim is to create
internationally!competitive
services that are based on
the real needs of users.
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7. Vision
Helsinki metropolitan area
is the!capital of digital
services in Europe.
Partners and members of
Forum Virium!Helsinki have
created remarkable new
business and growth.

8. Companies
Public
sector
Networks

9. City as an interface!
Smart
City
International harmonization!
Open data,
open API’s!
City Service Development Kit!
Open Helsinki!
Co-creation!
Interoperability!

10. Opening up
public data
•! Boosts!the ecosystem as
a whole by fostering new
business opportunities,
innovations!and economic
growth
•! Makes!city governance more
effective, saves public costs
•! Increases!transparency
Why?

11. Helsinki
Region
Infoshare
• Public data pools from the Helsinki
Region as open regional data
• The opened data is ready to be
used by anyone freely at no cost
• One main goal is to pilot an open
data activity model and its
implications to both the producers
and end users of the data
–! Learning by doing
–! Sharing the lessons learned
Datakuvat:Informaatiomuotoilu.fi

12. Helsinki Region Infoshare
won the 100 000"
European Prize for Innovation
Picture:EuropeanCommission

13. EU Study nominates Helsinki
as one of the TOP 6
European Smart Cities
Study: Mapping Smart Cities in the EU 2014
Picture:VisitFinland,HelsinkiCityMediaBank

14. Picture:!Olli-ekkaOrpo
Co-creating with the
developer
community
•!Open Data & Open API’s in focus
•!Helsinki Loves Developers
•!Apps4Finland and hackatons
•!Code Fellows

15. Helsinginkaupunginaineistopankki:MariaMiklas
Stupid mayors are
putting the wrong
things at the heart of
Smart Cities
From San Francisco’s energy maps to
Helsinki’s apps, truly Smart Cities
need to give their residents the right
tools

16. Apps4Finland
Competition
•!Encourages citizens, developers
and organisations to develop
new ways to utilize open data
•!Organised since 2009
•! Over 600 entries
•! Awarded with Pro Urbe Digitali
prize in 2014
•!Past winners: BlindSquare,
Stormwind Simulator,
ParkkiNappi (Parkman)
•!www.apps4finland.fi

17. • Apps for Europe turns open data into real business
• Offers expertize, funding and tools to to transform data-based
ideas, apps and concepts into viable business
• brings together those offering data and those utilizing it, as well as
already established companies and future financiers
• Broad international network
• www.appsforeurope.eu
Commercializing open data
"Open Data Onderwijs" by Waag Society, licensed under CC BY 2.0

18. Code fellows opening up
the cities
•!The Code for Europe fellowship programme hires talented
web developers, coders and designers to work in public
sector organisations
•!Code Fellows open up the cities in practice and
open interfaces plus create new applications
•!Solutions shared openly at
europecommons.org and can
be utilized all around the world
•!www.codeforeurope.net

19. •!Helsinki’s Code Fellow built an open interface on top of the
City of Helsinki’s Case Management Solution Ahjo
–!Helsinki’s decision-making documents accessible as open data
•!The OpenAhjo interface is a unique opening at global scale
•!The interface has inspired new applications like Ahjo Explorer
and Päätökset website, listing political decisions in Helsinki
•! dev.hel.fi/apis/openahjo dev.hel.fi/paatokset
Increased transparency

20. Helsinki Loves Developers
•!The City of Helsinki meets regularly with developers,
inspiring them to take full advantage of the city’s open data
and interfaces
•!Practical support in coding, meetups and workshops
•!Helsinki Developer Portal dev.hel.fi lists all the programming
interfaces of the city of Helsinki

21. Helsinki seeks to be the most
developer-friendly city in the world
Pöicture:TuomasSauliala,PrimeMinister'sOffice

22. Boosting
interoperability
•!CitySDK creates a toolkit for
digital city services
•!Opening and harmonizing city
interfaces, processes
and!standards
•!Eight European cities plus
companies and research partners
•!In Helsinki, the city created a
service allowing citizens to report
issues via a local website
•!www.citysdk.eu
Picture:TheCityofHelsinkiiMediaBank,EskoLämsä

23. •!Application interface to Helsinki city’s feedback system (Open311)
•!Enables developers to create new services for citizens
–!e.g. new feedback channel for citizens to report issues via a local
media house’s website, feedback is forwarded to the city
•!Replicable API: utilizes the Open311 standards & technology
APIs enabling innovations

24. City as an
Interface

25. Interactive screens
•!21 touch screens around the Helsinki city center
•!Currently piloting the screens indoors
•!Between 2012–2013 numerous services and campaigns
–!Ice Hockey World Championships, e-books…

26. Vision:!Digital City Card
Picture:Rodeo

27. Library book
loans with travel
card
•!Piloting new use cases of
the Helsinki Region
Transport s travel card, for
instance as a library card
•!The popularity & results of
the pilot have exceeded all
expectations
Picture: Pia Mässeli

28. Stadi.TV
•!Open, communal media
•!Mix of content produced
by citizens, a team of
professionals and
partners
•!User-generated content
form people living in the
Helsinki metropolitan
area
•!Workshops teach how to
make programs
•!www.stadi.tv
Picture: iStockphoto

29. New tools for
democracy
!
Piture:HelsinkiCityMediaBank,LauriRotko/VisitHelsinki
•!Open, decentralised
social networking
platform for large-scale
collaboration
•!Created with citizens
movements, civic
innovators and
developers
•!Testing and piloting in
Finland, Iceland and
Spain
•!www.dcentproject.eu

30. Innovation
Communities
Collective
School
Supporting independent
living for elderly
Kalasatama – smart urban development
Living Labs

31. Smart
Kalasatama
•!A model district of smart
urban development
•!Developed through
experimenting, new
technologies and the use of
open data
•!Grows from the collaboration
between the city, companies,
and the residents
Picture:ThecityofHelsinkiMediaBank,VilleRiikonen

32. Innovative
procurement
Picture:iStockphoto
•! SILVER: Supporting
Independent LiVing of the
Elderly through Robotics
•! The objective is to establish and
execute a pre-commercial
procurement (PCP) process to
run a cross-border PCP call for
tender
•! The aim is to identify new
technologies and services to
support the independent living
of the elderly
•! www.silverpcp.eu

33. Innovations
for independent
living
• Open competition Independent
Living Challenge
• Looks for innovative solutions
and technologies to improve life
for the elderly and disabled
• Five finalists get real-life piloting
• The winner gets over 120 000"
• Organised by Nordic Innovation
and five Nordic capitals
Picture:Shuttterstock

34. Growth Services
EU Funding for SMEs in the
Creative Industry sector
Open forum events
Internationalization services
for eHealth and ICT companies
Growth Coaching
for Helsinki-based SMEs
Picture:ThecityofHelsinkiMediaBank,CommaImageOy

35. Growth Coaching
•!Supports Helsinki-based, small and
medium sized innovative companies
aiming for growth and international
business
•!Tailored and flexible coaching
•!Since 2006 almost 300 companies
have participated
•!Produced by Forum Virium Helsinki
for City of Helsinki Economic
Development
Kuva:Helsinginkaupumgimaineistopankki

36. Boosting eHealth and ICT
SME’s towards growth
•!Service for eHealth SMEs to boost their growth
www.get-ehealth.eu
–! Training, mentoring, market intelligence, support and contacts
•!Opening doors and contacts for ICT businesses to new
markets in Europe, 12 countries included
www.europeanace.eu
Picture:Thinkstock

37. Funding, tech advice, visibility
•!Start a business by utilizing FIWARE technologies
•!For SMEs, web entrepreneurs and ICT developers in
the Creative Industries www.creatifi.eu

38. Building international
networks
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•!Forum Virium Helsinki cooperates
closely with foreign cities,
companies, and various
organizations
•!Numerous wide international
projects ongoing
•!Active member of the European
Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)
www.openlivinglabs.eu
•!Partner of EIT ICT Labs network
and member of the European
Business Network (EBN)
www.ebn.be
Picture:Thinkstock

39. •! Strategy for sustainable urban
development
•! Carried out in 2014-2020 by the six
largest cities in Finland: Espoo, Helsinki,
Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Vantaa
•! The objective is to create new know-how,
business and jobs in Finland
•! Open innovation platforms, open data
and interfaces, open participation
•! Forum Virium Helsinki runs national
coordination as well as related activation,
networking and communication
•! Funded by ERDF and ESF
•! www.6aika.fi/6aika-briefly-in-english
6Aika – The Six City
Strategy
Picture:ThecityofHelsinkiMediaBank,VisitHelsinki,LauriRotko

40. Forum Virium Helsinki
Unioninkatu 24
00130 Helsinki, Finland