Big Data as Business Opportunity and Tricker to More Efficient Public Services

Ministry of Transport and Communication wants to find out how the big data can arise in various business sectors, and how the big data can be utilized in the more efficient production of public services. The development of self-data practices is one important step in the utilization of digitalisation. Self-data ecosystem requires a reliable exchange of information between different actors. The research is connected to Open Data –project, run in The Six City Strategy – Open and Smart Services carried out by the six largest cities in Finland: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku and Oulu. MDI is involved in the consortium led by the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA, together with Forum Virium and Business Law Finland. The project will be completed in December 2015.

A sustainable green transition is achieved by investing in the diversity of RDI activities – the AGDA project continues to work on this theme

AGDA is a Nordic development project funded by the Nordic Gender Equality Fund (NIKK). The project focuses on the opportunities that a greater focus on diversity and inclusion could create in the RDI-field, particularly in respect of green transition.

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MDI leads the co-creative process of developing, piloting and sharing practices for wellbeing in Sustainable Cities

The challenge bundle work is the cross-cutting co-development of the “Sustainable City” programme, co-ordinated by the Ministry of the Environment, with the aim of producing and sharing information, knowledge and solutions to the challenges linking cities’ management and practice in the area of leading work towards sustainability. The work produces concrete development measures, new ways of doing things and peer learning.

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