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
s
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
Thank You!
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