MDI at SuomiAreena 15.7. at 11am: Digitalisation of rural areas depends on the skills and infrastructure

Digitalisation and decentralized solutions are great opportunities for rural areas. There is a will for change but both infrastructure and ability to use digitalisation need to be improved. Smart Countryside -project studies the development of digital services in rural areas. The first results are listed in the Policy Brief published today. It is important to invest in the users’ ability and urge to use electronic services, as well as in the physical infrastructure.

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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