Forum Virium Helsinki New service innovations – in cooperation with companies, public sector organizations and citizens. 

Pauliina Smeds, 11/2012

ContentsIntroduction to Forum Virium Helsinki• Mission, vision, members & focus areas

Examples of Innovation Projects1. Smart City: Empowering & harnessing the innovation capacity of the urban community: e.g., City Service Development Kit & Open Cities project

2. Pioneering the Open Data movement in Finland: Helsinki Region Infoshare, Apps4Finland, Open Helsinki

3.Wellbeing: New solutions for healthcare: e.g.: Healthy Borough Programme; HealthStand, Health Card, Virtual Home Care, Collective School: Encouraging pupil engagement

4. Innovative Procurements

5. New Forms of Media: e.g.: Stadi.TV & Urban Media Surfaces

6. Growth Coaching: supporting internationalisation of SME’s

7. International Networks and cooperation with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012  

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Kuva: Katja Virta

Kuva: Susanna Ollila

Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo

Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo

New service innovations in cooperation with companies, public sector organizations and

citizens.

Forum Virium Helsinki is a part of the City of Helsinki Group.

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

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.

Cultivating

UrbanInnovation

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Harnessing the innovation capacity of the entire urban community

Anchor Companies

Member Companies

Public Sector

New Forms of Media

Focus Areas

Wellbeing

Smart City

Expected: Environment & Sustainability

Innovation

Communities

Innovative

Procurements

Growth Coaching

City as an interface

SmartCity

International harmonization

Opening up public data

City Service Development Kit

Open Helsinki

CitySDK

• Toolkit for developing digital city services: opening up and harmonizing city interfaces, processes & standards

• Eight European cities, 15 companies and research partners involved

•http://www.citysdk.eu/

Open CitiesData.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 as well as national app challenges

• opencities.net

Kuva: HKI kuvapankki / Seppo Laakso

Code for Europe

• Code for America brought to Europe– Bringing tech talents to contribute making cities more open & efficient

• Supporting the renewal of public services• talents with out-of-box answers to city

challenges• technological innovations• community engagement

• Part of the EU project ”Commons for Europe”

www.codeforeurope.net

Datakuvat: Informaatiomuotoilu.fi

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

– Learning by doing

– Sharing the lessons learned

Mayor's Achievement of the Year Prize to Helsinki Region Infoshare

Kuva: Pertti

Nisomem

Opening uppublic data

• 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

Why?

Apps4Finland

competitionEncourages citizens to

developnew ways to

utilize open data

http://www.apps4finland.fi/fi/en

Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo

An emerging trend: datavisualization

• Illustrates the data

and makes it more perceivable

•http://www.hri.fi/visualisointiblogi/ 

  – Data

visualization examples and tools

Datakuvat: Informaatiomuotoilu.fi

World Design Capital

Helsinki 2012

Open Data one of the main themes

More information:openhelsinki.fi

Kuva: Teppo Hudson

Vision: Digital City Card

Travel card introduced in event logistics

• Smart badges used by staff & competitors at Open Europeans Helsinki 2011 Sailing Race

• 1600 end-users during a two week event

Kuva: Suomen Purjehdus ja veneily

Better everyday at daycare

• Nappula pilot: testing NFC technology at daycare to ease everyday operations and to free time from administrative routines

• Tools for presence monitoring

Tramstop Wall -services through city tags• Piloting new service offering through electronic RFID tags

• Virtual message wall for tram passengers

• SMS tram ticket through NFC

Smart Cityguiding you

Kuva: Susanna Ollila

Walk andFeel Helsinki

Digitally guided route for cruise passengers

• Mobile guide with tourist information to attract cruise passengers

• Signposts with digital tags, access to information on Helsinki with mobile phone

Kuva: Susanna Ollila

WellbeingServices for elderly people

Encouraging pupil engagement

Healthy Borough Programme

Healthcare technology

Virtual home care

Societal challenges in 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

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 is an ongoing service in Itis Shopping Centre to support the self-care of the residents

• Offers guidance and advice on how to promote good health and prevent illness

Kuva: Kimmo Brandt

Kuva: Kimmo Brandt

Healthy Borough Programme

The Digital Health Card by the City of Helsinki

Health Centre

• To sieve hidden diabetes cases and cardiovascular diseases

• Online health checks, laboratory tests, online health couching

• Promising results: sieved successfully individuals with increased risk of the diseases. 5000 residents were invited to the pilot, 800 participated

The Health Card was presented the Excellence Finland award for quality innovation

by the president of Finland

Kuva: Tomi Parkkonen / Laatukeskus Excellence

Finland

Virtual home care

• Customers of the Helsinki City Home Care experimented virtual home care with integrated alarm function

• Promising results: the pilot is extended and prolonged– Preliminary results: virtual home care increases both the sense of security of home care customers, as well as social interaction between customers & home care

Storytelling games preventing loneliness• Developing & testing digital storytelling games

that stimulate social connectedness among elderly• Games designed together with the elderly in the

Netherlands, Finland, Sweden & Denmark• www.express2connect.org

Looking for the best healthcare for everybody

Using operations management to improve healthcare outcomes and to develop healthcare system scenarios

• tools, methods, and models to create better & more sustainable health systems

• quality of care, cost, efficiency & accessibility

• www.managedoutcomes.eu

Lehtikuva, Roope

Salonen

Encouraging childrens participation

• Four projects to increase communality at schools and to strengthen inclusion of the pupils

• Pupils, teachers and other school staff develop digital services in collaboration with parents and other stakeholders of schools

Innovative procurements• The pre-commercial

procurement (PCP) process tested in Finland for the first time

• The aim is to rejuvenate public services by procuring innovative solutions

• Project: SILVER: Supporting Independent Living of the Elderly through Robotics

New Formsof MediaUrban media screens

Stadi.TV,the voice of Helsinki people

Workshops and

education on media

production

Open, local and social media:http://stadi.tv and cable

Stadi.TV

• Citizen media platform: provides new means for resident involvement

• Increases city’s transparency

-HelsinkiKanava

• Content production education & workshops: boosting media literacy & skills of the residents

Kuva: Kalle Kuisma, m-cult

Media Master Plan

• Examines business opportunities, as well as new content related possibilities of digital media screens

• Trials: e.g., urban screen pilot on the wall of the department store Sokos in downtown Helsinki, Helsinki Tourist Studio’s media surfaces implementation

Kuva: Kaisa Eskola, FVH

City of Helsinki media screens• Urbanflow concept draws visions for the utilization of urban media screens

– helsinki.urbanflow.io

• New opportunities for business and for further developing Open Helsinki

• Promotes tourism and strengthens the image of Helsinki

Branding the Baltic Sea Region as one unity

• Baltic metropoles increasing the Baltic Sea Region’s competitiveness by branding it as one unity

• Attracting investors, tourists & talents to the region

• Accelerating the identity building dialogue in the region

• Awakening interest in the common good of the Baltic Sea Region http://www.hel.fi/hel2/onebsr/

Growth CoachingFor

internationalization of SMEs

Tailored for SME's business needs

Expertise in coaching

Kuvat: Olli-Pekka Orpo

Steady track record

Since 2006 almost 200 companies

Growth CoachingBoosting internationalization of SMEs

• Offers an additional tool for promoting diversity and dynamic development

• No business area or age limitations for companies

• Has been developed in co-operation with businesses, low bureaucracy

• Produced by Forum Virium Helsinki for City of Helsinki Economic Development

Kuva: Mia Uronen

• Project partnerships & networking

–Cooperation & benchmarking: projects, cities, companies,

communities

– Active member of European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)

• Decision-makers & investors–Lobbying, project funding

• High quality research–New information, insight &

foresight

Promoting international networks of the City of Helsinki

Kuva: Olli-Pekka Orpo

Partner of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012The main theme: Open Data

• Helsinki Region Infoshare the main partnership, more info on the events, competitions, etc:  http://openhelsinki.fi

• WDC Channel on Stadi.TV: http://stadi.tv

• wdchelsinki2012.fi/en

pauliina.smeds@forumvirium.fi

Thank You!