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Comparing Finnish and British Education: Does Diversity Matter?
Ilari Lovio from the Finnish Institute blogs about education and diversity, raising some questions that will also be tackled in forthcoming seminars.Finnish education has recently gained substantial...
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Open Data Monthly Review 02/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data.IN THE NEWS:Open data consultation exposes IT cost and capability worriesThe Cabinet Office has revealed concern over whether the public...
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Service Design – An approach to Better Public Services?
Director of Administration and Finance in the City of Jyväskylä, Heli Leinonkoski, gives a Civil Servants view on Service Design.That was the question on my mind when I first time heard about the...
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The Future of Openness or the Age of Uncertainty?
Mikael Järvelin from the Finnish Institute in London blogs about censorship in modern society.On the 29th of February 2012 London School of Economics organized a panel discussion on the topic...
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London is Entering a Golden Age of Social Investment
The Director of SharedImpact, Paul Cheng, blogs about Social Investments.For over 300 years, London has been one of the world’s great centres of financial innovation. Ideas, for example, about how to...
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Our new research on open data argues for better user engagement and more...
Fellow at the Finnish Institute in London, Antti Halonen, blogs about his newly published report: Being Open About DataThe Finnish Institute in London has recently completed a five-month research...
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Open Data Monthly Review 03/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data.IN THE NEWS:Open Government vs. Open Data A new research paper by Harlan Yu and David Robinson does an excellent job of tracing the...
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Notes from the Education Seminars #1: What Was Said
Ilari Lovio blogs about the key perspectives discussed in recent education seminars, organised by the Finnish Institute with its various partners. These topics will be discussed further in the...
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Notes from the Education Seminars #2: The Times They Are a-Changin’, but what...
Finnish Educator and Consultant, Sirkku Nikamaa-Berg, one of the panelists in the 'Lessons from the North' seminar, blogs about the future of education.The pace of societal and technological change...
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Notes from the Education Seminars #3: Local, National, Transnational
Dr. Mary Hilson, Senior Lecturer in the department of Scandinavian Studies at UCL, blogs about Lessons from the North seminar held at the Finnish Institute in London at the end of March.The second...
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Open Data Monthly Review 04/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data.IN THE NEWS:Open data user group: giving everyone a say on public dataThis week, we'd like to take you through the Cabinet Office's...
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Notes from the Education Seminars #4: Policy transfer, or an opportunity for...
Senior Researcher at the RSA, Louise Thomas, blogs about gaining new perspectives on England's schooling system through comparing it with the Finnish one.The education debate in the UK seems mired in...
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New democracy is something you can do!
Kalle Nieminen of Sitra's Synergise Finland development program blogs about new implementations of democracy.The word 'synergy' implies energy, interaction, dynamics and the interest in new ideas....
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Open Data Monthly Review 05/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data. IN THE NEWS:Open Data Powers New Citizen Engagement StrategiesCode for America recently launched Engagement Commons to bring together...
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Notes from the Education Seminars #5: How could we learn from each other and...
Auli Toom, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences in the University of Helsinki blogs about the importance of collaboration in educationThe discussion around the topics related to...
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Open Data Monthly Review 06/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data. IN THE NEWS:Open data idea offers paybackWhile delegates to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities were in town, I helped to give...
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Open Data Monthly Review 07/2012
A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data. IN THE NEWS:White paper heralds new era of open data and innovationThe new era of open data that this government has heralded with...
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Seminar examining youth in media age in Britain and Finland held at the...
Timo Vuorikivi from the Finnish Institute in London blogs about the recent seminar Youth Street Politics in the Media Age: Helsinki and London Compared held at the institute.On Friday 25th of January...
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Participatory budgeting and local open data: the Finnish Institute looks into...
Laura Sillanpää from the Finnish Institute in London blogs about the Institute's newest project on participatory budgeting as a way to enhance local democracy. Local authorities have traditionally...
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What do we mean when talking about “Open Education”?
Laura Sillanpää from the Finnish Institute in London blogs about Open Education Week held 11–15 March 2013. The second annual Open Education Week took place last week 11–15 March. Several free webinars...
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