MDI evaluates the municipality experiments of Ministry of Finance’s digital municipality trial

The Digital Municipality Trial -project and several digital community experiments were launched in the municipalities in the autumn of 2016. The aim of the experiments is to promote the development of municipal practices and production methods of services, to achieve evidence-based savings and/or to control the increase in municipal costs by utilizing digitalisation, to promote the renewal of practices based on inhabitants of a municipality, to promote experimental culture-thinking and attitude, to increase networking among municipalities and to promote customer-oriented development of operations in the municipal sector and to promote the preparation of the change of municipalitys role in the Future municipality.

MDI evaluates the Digital Municipality Trial on behalf of the Ministry of Finance. The evaluation will provide information on the implementation and results of digital municipality trial, assess and support municipalities in the self-assessment of digital community experiments, and support the dissemination of results and good practices of digital experiments to the local community. The work will be completed in December 2018.

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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