We are Open Knowledge Finland. Open Knowledge Finland promotes free access to and usage of knowledge, encourages free flow of information and advocates for a transparent and inclusive society in Finland. It is the local chapter of The Open Knowledge Network, which already operates in over 30 countries. Open Knowledge Finland was registered as a non-profit association in 2012.
3. WE BELIEVE OPEN KNOWLEDGE CAN EMPOWER EVERYONE,
ENABLING PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER TO TACKLE LOCAL AND
GLOBAL CHALLENGES, UNDERSTAND OUR WORLD, EXPOSE
INEFFICIENCY, CHALLENGE INEQUALITY AND HOLD
GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES TO ACCOUNT.
Governmental
OpenData
AvoinGLAM OpenScienceOpen
Sustainable
Development
OpenEducationOpenDemocracy OpenLicensesMyData OpenAPI
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4. FOUNDED 2012
Now:
~ 4000+
PEOPLE IN NETWORK
~ 400 MEMBERS
~ 9 WORKING GROUPS
~ 20 PROJECTS
~ 10 EMPLOYEES
~ 500 000€ BUDGET
(including MyData 2016 budget)
MODES OF ACTIVITY
● PROJECT HOME
● EVENTS & COMMUNITY
● ADVOCACY
● EDUCATION & SERVICES
● OPENNESS LABORATORY
● GLOBAL NETWORK
8. ADVOCACY
Governmental
OpenData
AvoinGLAM OpenScienceOpen
Sustainable
Development
OpenEducationOpenDemocracy OpenLicensesMyData OpenAPI
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“With the help of open data and the better
use of data resources, favourable conditions
will be provided for new business ideas.”
“People’s right to decide about and monitor
their personal information will be enhanced”
“ ...strengthening knowledge-based decision-
making and openness and by making use of
experiments and methods that encourage civic
participation.”
“Access to art and culture will be facilitated”
Strategic Programme of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s Government 29 May 2015
13. 4/2016 – 2/2017
photo by Lauri Vanhala
COST-EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF
OPEN DATA AND BASIC REGISTERS
14. COST-EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF OPEN DATA AND
BASIC REGISTERS
The research project’s goal is to better understand and measure the impacts
of open data and the use of the basic public registers.
OUTCOME
● Policy recommendations and suggestions for new methods
● Processes or technical changes, to help improve cost-efficient
publishing of open data and increase the impact of the basic registers.
PARTNERS ETLA (Research Institute of the Finnish Economy)
FUNDED BY The Finnish Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities (VN TEAS)
coordinated by the Prime Minister’s Office (VNK)
CONTACT Mika Honkanen, Project Manager, Open Knowledge Finland, mika.honkanen@okf.fi
Heli Koski, ETLA, heli.koski@etla.fi
16. OPEN CITIZEN SCIENCE
Citizen science has most notably been used as a method for creating
observational data for life science research. Against the backdrop of current
technological advancement, we need to create Citizen Science v 2.0 – open,
diverse, responsible, dialogous and academically excellent.
OUTCOME
● A set of concrete recommendations for national stakeholders
● Create understanding, awareness and discussion about citizen science as a
scientific method and a community
● Catalyze a research agenda for new kind of open citizen science
PARTNERS Open Knowledge Finland Open Science Working Group
Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture’s Open Science & Research
Initiative
FUNDED BY Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture’s Open Science & Research Initiative
18. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING SUPPORT
As Creative Commons licenses are the official recommended
license for open data in the Finnish governmental sector,
awareness and instructions for using them in practice are
needed in many sectors of society, including public open
bids, content creation subcontracting, and data purchasing.
OUTCOME
Guidelines and example contract clauses for data and
content acquisition.
PARTNERS Aalto University, official local affiliate of Creative Commons Inc.
FUNDED BY The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
CONTACT Tarmo Toikkanen, tarmo.toikkanen@creativecommons.fi
MORE INFO okf.fi/cctuki, creativecommons.fi
photobyMikkoSäteri/CCBY
20. D-CENT
D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating privacy-aware tools and
applications for direct democracy and economic empowerment. Together
with the citizens and developers, we are creating a decentralised social
networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making.
PARTNERS Open Knowledge International
Forum Virium Helsinki, Nesta, Itzel and W3C
CONTACT Teemu Ropponen
MORE INFO dcentproject.eu
22. COMMON KNOWLEDGE
PRACTISES IN RESEARCH AND DECISION-MAKING
The aim of the project is to find out what kind of tools and methods could be
used in government in order to utilize knowledge management and research
data even better in decision making.
OUTCOME
Theoretical study, 30+ interviews and 4 experiments in new tools and
methods such as data visualization, open impact assessment, real-time
document editing, real-time fact-checking.
YHTEISTYÖKUMPPANIT National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Oxford Research
FUNDED BY Finnish Government’s analysis, assessment and research
activities (VN TEAS)
Coordinated by the Prime Minister’s Office (VNK)
CONTACT Jouni Tuomisto (jouni.tuomisto@thl.fi, National Institute for Health and Welfare)
23. HACK4FI - HACK YOUR HERITAGE!
photo by AvoinGLAM / CC BY 2.0
24. Hack4FI – Hack your heritage hackathon and competition gathers together a
diverse group of coders, designers, cultural heritage institutions, artists,
graphic designers and others interested in open culture to create new
concepts out of old materials.
Hack4FI was held in Finland for the first time in 2015. The hackathon is
organised yearly by the local Finnish OpenGLAM-working group AvoinGLAM
in collaboration with Finnish culture and memory institutions.
PARTNERS Aalto University, Aalto Media Factory
RAHOITTAJA Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö
YHTEYSHENKILÖT Sanna Marttila, Project Manager, OKFI, sanna.marttila@okf.fi
Laura Sillanpää, Project Coordinator, OKFI,
laura.sillanpaa@okf.fi
LISÄTIETOJA http://hack4.fi/
25.
26. The “E-services and personal data in Helsinki” - studied how personal
information could be be utilized more extensively in the production and
development of digital services by the City of Helsinki.
The project analyzed what kind of personal data is stored within the city’s 778
IT systems, identified over 30 different user stories in which sharing data
across systems would produce value and produced three prototypes that
demonstrated how sharing personal data between services can improve the
lives of city residents.
PARTNERS City of Helsinki
RAHOITTAJA City of Helsinki Innovation fund
YHTEYSHENKILÖT Antti Poikola, Project Manager, OKFI, jogi@okf.fi
Emilia Hjelm, Project Expert, OKFI,emilia.hjelm@okf.fi
