Finland

Submitted by Ton Zijlstra on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 15:07

Country profile, June 2011

Key policy documents

Consulted key e-government policy documents.

  • eGovernement Facsheets in FI
  • Unchartered Waters: The State of Open Data in Europe (pdf)
  • Consumer Behavior And Value Creating Networks In Multimedia Mobile Services (pdf)
  • Refurbishing Elderly Care: Strategy of Cost Efficiency in Theory and Practice (pdf)
  • Harnessing Web 2.0 For Business To Business Marketing (pdf)
  • Planning for Real (link)
  • 10 Years of Urban Regeneration (pdf)
  • Helsinki Region Infoshare makes data publicly available (link)
  • Topic Report No. 12: Open data in Finland - bottom up and middle out, but not yet from top down (link)



Actors

E-government actors involved in the collaborative production.

  • Local municipalities providing healthcare
  • Ubiquitous Information Society Advisory Board (Chaired by the Minister of Communications, the Advisory Board consists of around 40 members from the involved Ministries, public administration, NGOs and business life. Its task is to ensure the implementation of the national information society strategy as well as the aims outlined in the Government resolution on the Objectives of the National Information Society Policy for 2007-2011)



    Coverage in policy documents

    Coverage of collaborative production in e-government policy documents.

    In March 2010 the Finnish Open Government Data Guidebook (“Julkinen data – johdatus tietovarantojen avaamiseen” / “Public data – an introduction to opening the information resources”) was published. It was commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Transportation and Communications and is part of the Ministry's work on developing a national information strategy and efforts to enhance the use of public sector information.



    Definitions

    of collaborative production used.

    Information to be provided by the Member State.



    Priorities

    Priorities covered and/or stimulated. (Top-down collaboration or bottom-up collaborative production)

    Information to be provided by the Member State.



    Policy cycle

    Collaborative production in the policy cycle (development, implementation, evaluation).

    The ActiveNet Project focuses on studying value-creating networks within elderly care (e-health services, tele-diagnostics, and tele-care) both in Finland and in Japan. (pdf)



    Foreseen

    Foreseen policy interventions and instruments.

    Information to be provided by the Member State.



    Legal provisions

    With regard to the implementation of Freedom of Information, PSI Re-use and correlation with collaborative e-government.

    Information to be provided by the Member State.



    Public service domains

    Public service domains covered (based on 20 basic services).

    The 12 services for citizens are as follows:
    1. Income taxes: declaration, notification of assessment
    2. Job search services by labor offices
    3. Social security benefits
    4. Personal documents: passport and driver’s license
    5. Car registration (new, used, imported cars)
    6. Application for building permission
    7. Declaration to the police (e.g. in case of theft)
    8. Public libraries (availability of catalogues, search tools)
    9. Certificates (birth and marriage): request and delivery
    10. Enrolment in higher education/university
    11. Announcement of moving (change of address)
    12. Health related services (interactive advice on the availability of services in different hospitals; appointments for hospitals

    The 8 services for businesses are as follows:
    1. Social contributions for employees
    2. Corporate tax: declaration, notification
    3. VAT: declaration, notification
    4. Registration of a new company
    5. Submission of data to statistical offices
    6. Customs declarations
    7. Environment-related permits (incl. reporting)
    8. Public procurement



    Other information

    Opengov.fi is a civil society initiative that provides access to Finland’s central government data

    The Helsinki Region Infoshare project (a joint effort by Helsinki and surrounding municipalities to make available PSI for re-use) officially launched its data portal in April 2011.

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