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

Pauliina Smeds, 30.4.2012

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

Examples of Innovation Projects 1.  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.  Other Smart City projects

4.  Wellbeing: New solutions for healthcare: e.g.: Healthy Borough Programme; HealthStand, Health Card, Virtual Home Care

5. Collective School: Encouraging pupil engagement

6.  New Forms of Media: Stadi.TV & Urban Media Surfaces

7.  Growth Coaching: supporting internationalisation of SME’s

8.  Other themes: International Networks and cooperation with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012  

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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.

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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 Urban Innovations

Harnessing the innovation capacity of the entire urban community

Anchor Companies

Member Companies

Public Sector

New Forms of Media

Focus Areas

Wellbeing

Smart City

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City as an interface

Smart City

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 and standards

• Eight European cities, 15 companies and research partners involved

Open Cities Data.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

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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

Opening up public 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 competition

Encourages  citizens to develop

new ways to utilize open data

h$p://www.apps4finland.fi/fi/en    

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An emerging trend: data visualization •  Illustrates the data and makes it more perceivable

• http://www.hri.fi/visualisointiblogi/    – Data visualization examples and tools

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World Design Capital Helsinki 2012

Open Data one of the main themes More information: openhelsinki.fi

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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

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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

Smart City guiding you

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Walk and Feel 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

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Wellbeing Services 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

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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

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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

Encouraging childrens participation • Four projects to increase communality at schools and to strenghten inclusion of the pupils

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

New Forms of Media Urban media screens

Stadi.TV, the voice of Helsinki people Workshops and

education on media

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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

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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

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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

Growth Coaching For internationalization of SMEs

Tailored for SME's business needs

Expertise in coaching

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Steady track record

Growth Coaching Boosting internationalization of SMEs

• Tailored expert coaching for the business needs of SME companies

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

• Over 150 companies have already been selected. No/low bureacracy, steady track record, highly promising results.

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• 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

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Partner of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 The 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!