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Forum Virium Helsinki
Fourth Annual Seminar of Forum Virium Helsinki, Thursday 11th March 2010.
The seminar theme was Open up the City - Open data, design, interfaces and innovation
Speakers Presentations
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FVH Open Up The city: 13 How To Join The Open Data Ecosystem Petri Kola
FVH Open Up The city: 7 Helsinki Region Infoshare Ville Meloni
1. Helsinki
Region
Infoshare
-‐open
data
Ville
Meloni
Project
manager
–
Helsinki
Region
Infoshare
Forum
Virium
Helsinki
2. Joint
effort
of
City
of
Helsinki
Urban
Facts,
the
municipali7es
of
Helsinki
region,
municipal
organiza7ons
and
Forum
Virium
Helsinki
to:
WHAT DATA - Urban facts statistics (initial scope)
• Population, income, living conditions
OPEN • Employment, business, construction, environment, etc.
PUBLIC • + Also other data, step by step, per user requests
SECTOR
DATA WHY - Better access to data for everyone facilitates
• Research, service creation, new business, citizen
participation, driving innovations
• Collaboration among data providers and data utilizers,
helping to develop more user driven information services
WHEN – 2010 – 2012
• Starting to open data Q2 2010 -
• Helsinki regional data catalogue BETA eof 2010
• Series of pilots for utilizing the data 2010 –
• 2012: wealth of useful data available via the catalogue,
many great cases of utilizing the data
Helsinki Region • Iterative approach, a learning process, sharing learnings
• The world is even a better place;-)
Infoshare
3. THANK
YOU
!
Feel
like
you
could
use
this
kind
of
data
?
Interested
in
parQcipaQng
in
a
pilot
project
?
Drop
me
an
email
at:
ville.meloni@forumvirium.fi