This presentation from Form Virium Helsinki discusses and advocates harnessing the innovative capacities of entire communities to bring forth optimal city management. The focus is on overcoming the traditional challenges between public sector organizations and citizens.

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: 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.,
Kuva: Katja Virta
Piloting Future Homecare, Healthy Borough Programme
5. Collective School: Encouraging pupil engagement
6. New Forms of Media: Stadi.TV & Urban Media Surfaces
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo
7. Growth Coaching: supporting internationalisation of SME’s
8. Other themes: International Networks and Cooperation
Kuva: Susanna Ollila
with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012
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3. New service innovations
in cooperation with companies,
public sector organizations and citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a member 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
• www.facebook.com
/CitySDKHelsinki

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
• 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. Smart Badge of
Open Europeans
• 800 badges used by
competitors and staff in
European
Sailing Championships 2011
in Helsinki; data on the
badge read with NFC
enabled smartphone.
• All the end-users were
Kuva: Suomen Purjehdus ja veneily
content with the service

20. Increasing
safety in
daycare
centres
• Nappula pilot: testing
new ways to ease everyday
operations and to increase
safety in daycare centres
• Presence monitoring and
reporting
• Implemented with mobile
phones and RFID tags

21. Smart City
guiding you
Kuva: Susanna Ollila

22. Walk and
Feel Helsinki
Digitally guided
route for cruise passengers
• To attract cruise passengers
to get acquainted with the
City of Helsinki
• Signposts with digital tags,
access to information on
Helsinki with mobile phone
Kuva: Susanna Ollila

23. Wellbeing
Healthy Borough
Programme
Health services
brought to the people
Piloting Future Homecare
Encouraging
pupil
engagement

24. Challenges facing the
public 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 as an ongoing
Kuva: Kimmo Brandt
service in Itäkeskus Shopping
Centre to support
independent preventive
healthcare
• Health counseling, sharing of
Kuva: Kimmo Brandt
information

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

27. Stadi.TV
• Open, local & social media
• Citizen media platform:
provides new means for
resident involvement
• http://stadi.tv
• Increases transparency
HelsinkiKanava
• Content production
education & workshops:
Kuva: Kalle Kuisma, m-cult
boosting media literacy &
skills of the residents

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

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

30. Promoting the 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
–Lobbying, project funding
Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo
• High quality research
–New information, insight & foresight

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