Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group that initiates new cooperation between companies, public sector organizations, and citizens to create internationally competitive digital services. It focuses on areas like Smart City, Wellbeing, New Forms of Media, and Growth Coaching. Examples of projects include the City Service Development Kit, Open Cities, Helsinki Region Infoshare, Healthy Borough Programme, Stadi.TV, and providing growth coaching for internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises. The organization also promotes Helsinki's role as a leader in open data and digital services in Europe.

1. Forum
Virium
Helsinki
New service innovations –
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations
and citizens.
Pauliina Smeds, 30.4.2012

2. Contents
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo
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2 Introduction to Forum Virium Helsinki
• Mission, vision, members & focus areas
Examples of Innovation Projects
1. Smart City: Empowering & harnessing the innovation
capacity of the urban community: e.g., City Service
Development Kit & Open Cities project
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6 2. Pioneering the Open Data movement in Finland:
Helsinki Region Infoshare, Apps4Finland, Open Helsinki
3. Other Smart City projects
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4. Wellbeing: New solutions for healthcare: e.g.: Healthy
Kuva: Katja Virta
Borough Programme; HealthStand, Health Card, Virtual
Home Care
5. Collective School: Encouraging pupil engagement
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo
6. New Forms of Media: Stadi.TV & Urban Media Surfaces
7. Growth Coaching: supporting internationalisation of SME’s
Kuva: Susanna Ollila
8. Other themes: International Networks and cooperation
3 with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 7

3. New service innovations
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations and citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.

4. 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.
Photo: flickr: a4gpa's photostream

5. 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.

6. Cultivating
Urban
Innovations

7. Harnessing
the
innovation
capacity of
the entire
urban
community

8. Anchor Public
Companies Sector
Member Companies

9. Focus Areas
Smart City
Innovative Procurements
Innovation Communities
Wellbeing
Growth Coaching
New Forms of Media
Expected:
Environment & Sustainability

10. City Service Development Kit
Smart
Opening up
public data Open Helsinki
City
City as an interface
International harmonization

11. CitySDK
• Toolkit for developing
digital city services:
opening up and
harmonizing city
interfaces, processes
and standards
• Eight European cities,
15 companies and
research partners
involved

12. Open Cities
Data.opencities.net
– a data catalogue summing up the sources of open data in Europe
• Boosting innovation by opening up and utilizing
public data sources
• Open Cities App Challenge as well as
national app challenges
• opencities.net
Kuva: HKI kuvapankki / Seppo Laakso

13. 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
Datakuvat: Informaatiomuotoilu.fi
– Learning by doing
– Sharing the lessons learned

14. Opening up
public data
Why?
• 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

15. Apps4Finland
competition
Encourages
citizens to develop
new ways to
utilize open data
h$p://www.apps4finland.fi/fi/en
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo

16. An emerging
trend: data
visualization
• Illustrates the data
and makes it more
perceivable
• http://www.hri.fi/
visualisointiblogi/
– Data visualization
examples and tools
Datakuvat: Informaatiomuotoilu.fi

17. World Design
Capital Helsinki
2012
Open Data one of the
main themes
More information:
openhelsinki.fi
Kuva: Teppo Hudson

18. Vision: Digital City Card

19. Travel card
introduced in
event logistics
• Smart badges used by staff &
competitors at Open Europeans
Helsinki 2011 Sailing Race
• 1600 end-users during a two
week event
Kuva: Suomen Purjehdus ja veneily

20. Better everyday
at daycare
• Nappula pilot: testing NFC
technology at daycare to
ease everyday operations
and to free time from
administrative routines
• Tools for presence
monitoring

21. Smart City
guiding you
Kuva: Susanna Ollila

22. Walk and
Feel Helsinki
Digitally guided
route for cruise passengers
• Mobile guide with tourist
information to attract cruise
passengers
• Signposts with digital tags,
access to information on
Helsinki with mobile phone
Kuva: Susanna Ollila

23. Services for
elderly people
Wellbeing
Virtual home care
Healthcare
technology
Healthy Borough
Programme
Encouraging
pupil
engagement

24. Societal challenges
in healthcare
Citizens are ageing, the demand for
healthcare services rises
Large amount of the workforce will
reach retirement age
At the same time with the growing
shortage of helping hands, there is an
acute need for new solutions &
improvements in effectiveness

25. Healthy Borough Programme
The HealthStand by
the City of Helsinki Health
Centre
• One of the pilots testing
services brought to the places
where people are
• The HealthStand is an ongoing
Kuva: Kimmo Brandt
service in Itis Shopping Centre
to support the self-care of the
residents
• Offers guidance and advice on
how to promote good health
Kuva: Kimmo Brandt
and prevent illness

26. Healthy Borough Programme
The Digital Health Card
by the City of Helsinki Health Centre
• To sieve hidden diabetes cases
and cardiovascular diseases
• Online health checks,
laboratory tests, online health
couching
• Promising results: sieved
successfully individuals with
increased risk of the
diseases. 5000 residents were
invited to the pilot,
800 participated

27. The Health Card was presented
Kuva: Tomi Parkkonen / Laatukeskus Excellence Finland
the Excellence Finland award
for quality innovation by the
president

28. Virtual
home care
•
Customers of the Helsinki City
Home Care experimented virtual
home care with integrated alarm
function
• Promising results: the pilot is
extended and prolonged
– Preliminary results: virtual home
care increases both the sense of
security of home care customers, as
well as social interaction between
customers & home care

29. Encouraging
childrens
participation
• Four projects to increase
communality at schools
and to strenghten
inclusion of the pupils
• Pupils, teachers and other
school staff develop digital
services in collaboration
with parents and other
stakeholders of schools

30. New Forms
Urban media screens of Media
Stadi.TV,
the voice of
Helsinki people Workshops and
education
on media
production

31. Open, local
and social media:
http://stadi.tv and cable

32. Stadi.TV
• Citizen media platform:
provides new means for
resident involvement
• Increases city’s transparency
– HelsinkiKanava
• Content production
education & workshops:
boosting media literacy &
skills of the residents
Kuva: Kalle Kuisma, m-cult

33. Media Master Plan
• Examines business opportunities, as well as new content
related possibilities of digital media screens
• Trials: e.g., urban screen pilot on the wall of the department
store Sokos in downtown Helsinki, Helsinki Tourist Studio’s
media surfaces implementation
Kuva: Kaisa Eskola, FVH

34. City of
Helsinki
media screens
• Urbanflow concept draws
visions for the utilization
of urban media screens
– helsinki.urbanflow.io
• New opportunities for
business and for further
developing Open Helsinki
• Promotes tourism and
strengthens the image
of Helsinki

35. Growth Coaching
For internationalization
of SMEs
Tailored for
SME's business needs
Expertise in coaching
Steady track record
Kuvat: Olli-Pekka Orpo

36. Growth Coaching
Boosting internationalization of SMEs
• Tailored expert coaching for the business needs of
SME companies
• Produced by Forum Virium Helsinki for City of
Helsinki Economic Development
• Over 150 companies have already been selected. No/
low bureacracy, steady track record, highly promising
results.
Kuva: Mia Uronen

37. Promoting international
networks of the City of Helsinki
• Project partnerships & networking
–Cooperation & benchmarking:
projects, cities, companies,
communities
– Active member of European
Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)
• Decision-makers & investors
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo
–Lobbying, project funding
• High quality research
–New information, insight & foresight

38. Partner of World Design
Capital Helsinki 2012
The main theme: Open Data
• Helsinki Region Infoshare the main partnership, more info
on the events, competitions, etc: http://openhelsinki.fi
• WDC Channel on Stadi.TV: http://stadi.tv
• wdchelsinki2012.fi/en

39. Thank You!
pauliina.smeds@forumvirium.fi