Tietoviikko reports that Finland (my home country) is the world’s best IT country according to World Economic Forum study The Global Information Technology Report 2013. According to the study, Finland is the world’s number one country when it comes to the economy’s ability to use information technology to competitiveness and prosperity. Finland has toppled Sweden from the top spot in a ranking of economies that are best placed to benefit from new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The question still remains how this result was got because there are many things in Finland ICT that are are far from very good, so are other countries just much lousier on those aspects?
At the core of the report, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) measures the preparedness of an economy to use ICT to boost competitiveness and well-being. In this edition, Finland (1st), Singapore (2nd) and Sweden (3rd) continue to lead the NRI, with the Netherlands (4th), Norway (5th), Switzerland (6th), the United Kingdom (7th), Denmark (8th), the United States (9th) and Taiwan, China (10th) completing the top 10.
Global Information Technology Report 2013 has a nice map that visualizes the network readiness of different countries.
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Aalto University teaches: How to make money from mobile games
Successful mobile gaming is not just about technology, but the business model and marketing of construction is at least as important. It has proved particularly Supercell in a phenomenal success.
Aalto Ventures Program (AVP) to teach in the gaming industry factors drawn in lectures, how mobile games are made of money.
15 january 2014 six-week course can accommodate about a hundred students, selected applications and preliminary tasks. The course is aimed primarily at Aalto University ‘s students, but that can also apply for the other. The search has started on Tuesday, 10 December.
In Finland, there are games, programming, and design education in the various professional colleges and universities. AVP’s new course stands out from the concentration of business models.
Mobile games are free to share the trend of the so-called freemium games. Playing is free of charge, if the time, patience and skills are sufficient. However, multi speed up the advancement of the game by purchasing virtual money, which obtains weapons, and other building blocks to speed up the progress.
Lecturers such as Super- May Tahkokallio , Ubisoft in Teut Weidemann , Grand Cru ‘s Thorbjorn Warin and Seriously the Reko Ukko . Speakers and topics are presented in the course website .
It is planned that the first time organized in the course will be renewed later. Game industry companies employ Finland currently has about 2,000 people.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/aalto+opettaa+nain+teet+rahaa+mobiilipeleilla/a953088
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Games Business Education at Aalto University
http://avp.aalto.fi/courses/games
During the past decade, the games industry has become one of the hottest and fastest growing industries in the world. With successful companies such as Rovio, Supercell and Remedy, Finland represents the cutting edge of the entire industry. The games sector has grown at an almost 50% pace for several years straight and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight – quite the opposite!
There are now nearly 300 game studios in Finland employing more than 2000 people with total revenues close to 800 million euros. With the current rate of growth, it is estimated that by 2020 the industry will employ around 8000 people with 2,5 billion euros in total revenues. The total market value of the companies is estimated to be between 10 and 20 billion euros.
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New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/11/2326213/new-baltic-data-cable-plan-unfolding
“Details are shaping up of a plan for a new government-backed high capacity data cable between Germany and Finland, routed through the Baltic Sea. The project to significantly upgrade Finland’s international data transfer capacity has long been high on the government’s list of priorities. It could improve the country’s competitiveness in ICT technologies and digital services”
“So far, all data transmission to Finland has taken place via the Øresund Bridge, that is through Denmark and Sweden.”
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New Baltic data cable plan unfolding
http://yle.fi/uutiset/new_baltic_data_cable_plan_unfolding/6979957
Details are shaping up of a plan for a new government-backed high capacity data cable between Germany and Finland. The data transmission cable is aimed at making Finland one of the world’s most attractive ICT regions.
The project to significantly upgrade Finland’s international data transfer capacity has long been high on the government’s list of priorities as a means to entice more companies to base international data centres in Finland. More generally, it could improve the country’s competitiveness in ICT technologies and digital services.
The project could be implemented in 2015, according to Haavisto.
According to current plans, the undersea optic fibre cable would run directly from Germany to Finland. Haavisto said that the project could make Finland a significant international data hub. So far, all data transmission to Finland has taken place via the Öresund Bridge, that is through Denmark and Sweden.
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5 Reasons Why Finnish Apps Are Beating American Rivals On US iPad Market
http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/11/22/5-reasons-why-finnish-apps-are-beating-american-rivals-on-us-ipad-market/
November 21 was another high point for Finnish app industry. FDG Entertainment’s “Oceanhorn” reigned as #1 iPad download in America and Rovio’s “Angry Birds Star Wars 2″ held onto #5 slot. Supercell’s two games were lodged as #2 and #3 grossing US iPad apps. This meant that three Finnish companies held more Top 5 positions in these two iPad charts than all US vendors combined.
In the past year, ten Finnish apps have hit Top 5 position on US iPhone charts, including rather exotic companies like Frogmind, Mountain Sheep and Fingersoft. Perhaps even more intriguingly, three Finnish vendors managed to hit #1 position on Japanese iPhone chart in 2013; a feat no other country has matched.
Why are Finnish app vendors so dazzling? This is a question I asked ten Japanese, Chinese and American industry experts at Slush 2013, a major start-up event held in Helsinki a week ago. Interestingly, all responses clustered around five arguments.
1) Creating a striking look. Many Finnish apps have a very distinctive vibe in both graphics and sound design.
2) Tight focus on Apple‘s preferences. Finnish companies tend to target Apple successfully for getting featured prominently. This involves intimate understanding of what sort of apps Apple likes to promote.
3) Relentless testing regime. Finnish app vendors tend to hone their apps for months or even a year in test markets like New Zealand or Canada. They adjust core loops and tinker with graphics until certain key metrics are met – such as 40% second day retention or 20 cents of average revenue per active daily user.
4) Creative pricing strategies. Everyone now says that only free-to-play works in the app market. But some Finnish companies are sharply contrarian.
5) Robust upgrade and expansion planning. Rovio pioneered the rapid and extensive upgrade strategy in 2010 by rolling out new levels at a furious clip for its original Angry Birds title in the year 2010. More recently, Supercell has managed to turn “Clash of Clans” and “Hay Day” into eye-poppingly perennial revenue machines by a carefully designed expansion plans.
Of course, many of these characteristics are not unique to Finnish vendors – they are evident in other Nordic countries.
As a massive wave of new new app start-ups is now building in Finland, the year 2014 is shaping up to be a decisive year for the country.
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If You Want the American Dream, Go to Finland
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/finland-2_b_4373187.html
The American dream — the notion of equal opportunity for all, the chance to pull yourself up by your boot straps and make something of yourself — is gone.
Consider what Ed Miliband, the popular British Labour leader — and would-be Prime Minister — said to a conference on social mobility last year: “If you are born in a more equal society like Finland, Norway or Denmark, then you have a better chance of moving into a good job than if you are born poor in the United States.”
This is a sad, depressing state of affairs for the U.S. and is becoming more true every day. But the reality is still not accepted by most Americans.
The reason is obvious: Our education system is static and falling behind other advanced countries — an economic time bomb — whereas Finland is an educational superpower, the best in the west, according to the PISA studies of 470,000 15-year-old students from 65 countries, (conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
A recent UN report ranked Finland the second happiest country in the world, behind Denmark, based on wealth, political freedom, strong social networks and an absence of corruption. The U.S. ranked 17th in national happiness among 156 countries evaluated for the study.
Happiness scores tend to be tied into crime rates and rankings of economic inequality. The larger the gap between the one-percenters and the have-nots , the less happiness there is and the more crimes that will be committed.
In Finland, Partanen says, there are no nationally standardized tests, inspections or league tables, no private schools or private universities and no fees. Competition is frowned upon; co-operation is king.
In the U.S. only 7 percent of students reached the top two scientific performance levels while in Finland 17 percent reached those levels.
Finnish students are also the best in the West, achieving extraordinarily high scores in a triennial survey for the OECD.
Finland is the world’s most “successful” country socially, economically and politically according to Washington think tank, the Fund for Peace.
We know from the Finns that equal education leads to social mobility and economic equality. Unfettered capitalism has become a new tyranny, according to Pope Francis. In other words, inequality kills and destroys the wealth and national happiness of a nation, both for the poor and the wealthy.
“Today we have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.” -Pope Francis.
Newsweek found that Finland was the “best” country in the world after examining living conditions in more than a 100 countries. The magazine measured factors such as education, health care, quality of life, economic dynamism and political environment.
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One of the most talked about topics is digitization . All the information and communication technology development in the following know that it is part of the natural development when more and more devices and services linked to each other through a network.
At the same time people are getting access to more intelligent tools for your own life and work can make it easier and work more efficiently.
What is the official digital ?
Digital is the official public service employees of the virtual person , which is composed of both human and computing the effective symbiosis .
Its mission is to serve the citizens and businesses as efficiently as possible , so that their lives and activities, the conditions are such that the Finnish society and the Finnish Oy, an economic operator may be well and prosper.
Various permits – building permits, driving permits, business licenses granted to the computer automatically if the electronic information provided by the applicant and the public sector databases can be found in data coverage to license the necessary information – this is true for at least 90% of all permits issued .
The official use of their time and skills primarily to those cases in which the applicant will help you to meet all the conditions of the authorization hakemansa .
Digital official , and his expertise is available 24/7 via electronic channels . This means that effective e-counseling services to guide you through various subsidies , for example, applying for .
Digital official also know what all the aid has already been granted to the applicant and on what basis .
Digital building inspector should not be the site of the building is completed , but he follows the progress of the project electronically and the lack of any potential problems as they arise and help the developer to correct the problem.
Chronically ill person is monitored continuously , and the doctor is informed of any problems automatically , and the person is automatically determined or management of health care known as the point where more research.
Why digital officers are needed?
Various meetings , experimentation at home , and so on used in a significant number of human intervention and money because the overall situation of the picture did not meet anyone .
In the digital economy the focus of the public sector to the private !
The sustainability gap is already a bit worn word, but it is the best we can to fight for the digitization of the public sector and reducing duplication .
Size of the public sector can easily set a savings target for the number of employees by twenty percent
Digital Civil Service offers tools for businesses and citizens, so they can also take , say, the current self- regulatory control tasks of self-control.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/blogit/ict_standard_forum/digitaalinen+virkamies/a953994
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Bonk : that is the personal identification number of the newborn
When a child is born , he will be in the hospital a temporary identity . Since then, the data is sent to the birth of the Population Register Centre , which will make an official ID and send it to the hospital . The time this process will go on weekdays for about one day.
The Population Register Centre has now revised its systems so that the child can be the official personal identification number automatically as soon as the hospital makes a birth announcement.
The new protocol has been piloted in Oulu University Hospital. It has also implemented Oulaskankaan hospital . Väestörekisterkeskuksen goal is to spread the practice in all maternity hospitals .
Oulu University Hospital Information System Adviser Hannele Lindeman says the release that the child will now be the official personal identification number ” by pressing a button .”
The process takes less than a minute .
In the old mode, the one-day delay is a technical delay. Functionally, the delay was longer. When the children were recorded information about temporary account, they are automatically transferred to the patient record after the official logo was obtained.
The hospital had to copy data to a temporary symbol, you and transfer them to the patient’s and the adhesive labels with printed documents . Temporary identity had to be combined and separately store the final SSN .
Also, a temporary personal account recorded a summary of nursing had to copy and paste an official personal identification
This sometimes took the time and can not always be reached immediately prior to the official logo was received. The baby he often went home with a temporary code.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/naps+kas+siina+vastasyntyneelle+henkilotunnus/a954364
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IT would help the recession , yet underused
Information technology is seen to have a lot to offer for companies, so it could help out the recession. Yet, investments are made mainly for the good times .
The topic has focused on Information Technology Association ( TTL , as soon as information and communication technologies professionals , or TIVIA ) , commissioned by the sixth IT barometer survey.
“It is very positive that about 90 percent of the respondents feel that it ‘s to be an important tool for the development of customer service, control the processes and develop innovative approaches. For all of these positive reviews, despite the investment in information technology and its application is developed mainly in economic good times , “says Information Technology Association of Robert Seren release .
During the recession, IT investments are postponed and IT utilization is compromised . According to the survey of IT investments have been postponed , and IT costs reduced, and the same trend is expected to continue in the next year.
Living frugally is reflected in the use of social media such as strategies for cloud computing and big data, the use of lags . Similarly, consumerisation not been addressed sufficiently.
Source: http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/tietotekniikka_auttaisi_taantumasta_silti_vajaakaytolla
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Finland: Overview of e-waste related information
http://step-initiative.org/index.php/Overview_Finland.html
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Software companies marketing problem forever – ” Distribute Marianne candies and business cards ”
Finnish software industry would increase, but the sales and marketing of them do not work well. Thus says the recent Kasvufoorumi report.
The same problem has plagued the software houses for many years. Even if the money were available, it still does not attempt to solve the problem.
Software Entrepreneurs Association ‘s President and CEO Rasmus Roiha (pictured) believes that this may partly explain the industry is driven by engineers. Software companies focus on to improve your products and believe that they sell themselves . Marketing and sales seem distant from things .
” Marketing is mystified a little too much ,”
Corporations to asked about where they put their money if they would be given half a million of extra funding . Only one in four would put money on sales and marketing .
“It leaves a very large extent the attitude . If the same question had been made in the USA, probably the most would be put on sales and marketing , ” Roiha believes.
Finnish software companies to further develop his view, a lot of marketing and sales factors . Companies are often limited only to the salary rates of sellers who are familiar with the products and the problems that they solve .
“Then the task given to the seller : get customers and sell ,”
Marketing is missing. In particular, the generation of leads , or potential purchasers of the data collection is still in its infancy. Only a few people are trying to get potential customers actively to contact the company, ie using the so-called inbound marketing.
” Marketing has been the stage that goes fairs, put up The stand , divided Marianne candies and business cards. The task of marketing should be very raw measurably help sales, ” Rasmus Roiha highlights.
He believes that change starts with attitude. It can be influenced , at least by raising awareness.
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Softataloja vaivaa ikiongelma – “jaetaan Marianne-karkkeja ja käyntikortteja”
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/softataloja+vaivaa+ikiongelma++quotjaetaan+mariannekarkkeja+ja+kayntikorttejaquot/a954654
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Estonia and Finland, it co-operation , ” joint cross-border services and to infrastructure ”
Estonia and Finland are starting to carry out extensive cooperation in public administration matters in the development of ICT .
Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen signed last week, the Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip Cooperation Memorandum . The key contents of the national service bus deployment.
The memorandum Estonia Finland pledges to provide the developed X-Road – source service bus , as well as future updates . Finland , in turn, is working to develop the X- Roadiin layer based on the national data systems for exchanging information.
” X-Road has proved its worth Estonian national ICT infrastructure, and it has the potential to provide cost- effective way to Finnish ICT infrastructure to develop ,” the document is written .
Cooperation , however, is going to be more extensive than just the service bus -related. The memo line is that Finland and Estonia are teaming up in a number of the digital society , economy and administration areas.
Countries will exchange information with each other in the name of cooperation and experts. Speech is also joint projects and events.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomi+ja+viro+ityhteistyohon+quotrajat+ylittavia+yhteisia+palveluita+ja+infastruktuuriaquot/a954755
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Finnish gaming companies are hiring more workers next year . Game industry association Neogames survey, companies are hiring in the next 12 months, approximately 300 employees , says Yle .
Now, the companies employ about 2 200 employees. In most village of Rovio company has more than 700 employees.
Director of the Association Koopee Hiltunen says that the game companies want to hire , above all, experienced workers.
New employees will be upgrading programs in the industry . Gamepro programs in other sectors working people get to know the area by working with companies. The money will come to training companies and the ELY- employment resources.
Almost all of the program selected people have been trained in all, and got a job.
Although the game industry grows next year, the masses , it does not employ very much. IT or telecommunications graduate engineers were unemployed at the end of October, more than 400.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/yle+nokiainsinooreista+koulitaan+pelintekijoita/a955186
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HS : Almost half of the pension companies’ expenditure is spent on information technology
Finnish employment pension companies, a large part of the activities is based on information technology. According to Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish pension insurance companies of more than one hundred million in expenses in almost half of the information technology.
On average, the costs of computer and IT labor wages muodistivat 44 per cent of the total expenditure. Case shows Pension Lobby Track new report .
The largest expenditure is a Finnish pension insurance companies Varma , who used to operate EUR 110 million. Ilmarinen’s expenses amounted to EUR 109 million .
“The computer costs have grown rapidly under our study , but the slowdown has occurred. Few years ago, the survey conducted by IT expenses as a percentage of the whole field of about 40-60 per cent of the conduct of the treatment ,”
Finnish pension companies’ IT costs to bring the complex pension system , due to which systems require customization.
In comparison, the HS in OP -Pohjola Group’s use of IT enclosures for about 10 percent of administrative costs.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/hs+lahes+puolet+elakeyhtioiden+menoista+kuluu+tietotekniikkaan/a955618
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Why pension companies IT cost so much?
Pension insurance companies’ operating costs of IT swallows a large portion. Finnish pension companies € 530 million spending 44 per cent was spent on information technology last year, the earnings-related pension lobbying organization survives roller initial assessment.
Why IT costs are so high, the analysis of the roll , Director Reijo wheel ?
” This large amounts of data can not be processed with pencil and paper. This is a very IT- oriented world, ” Band says.
He explains that large IT costs can be viewed from two different perspectives : it is inefficient and it has managed to automate a very long way .
So we can see that a lot of useless information technology consumed . Or, on the other hand , we can consider that the pension companies have stepped up their activities in it ‘s form. At the same time other expenses have decreased in relation to information technology. Effective citizen it means a high level of service . Forms and papers do not have to restore many of the hatch , and all things done at one place.
” Error-free to pay special attention , because here we are implementing the law,” Band says.
The law forces the complexity of the system
Pension has a normal insurance companies, compared to the much heavier burden to bear a forced by law . It makes the system more complicated .
Contribute to the pension companies’ information systems is complicated by the fact that different companies have systems have to talk to each other .
The final report of the roll will be completed next year. It sparked by the pension companies’ CIOs
The hope is that a few years from now reports tell CIOs , IT operations where it takes a lot of money and in what possibly could to save
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/miksi+elakeyhtioiden+tietotekniikka+maksaa+niin+paljon/a955689?s=u&wtm=tivi-20122013
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Slideshow: Finnish High-End Steel Maker Comes to US
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&doc_id=270659&cid=nl.dn14
A Finnish high-end specialty steel maker known for sustainable practices has opened offices in the United States and Canada. Rautarukki Corp. (Ruukki) will target transportation, heavy lifting, mining, and other industrial applications with its high-strength structural, and wear-resistant steels from its Pittsburgh and Toronto locations.
Ultra-high-strength steels are traditionally manufactured in hot rolling processes with multiple steps: reheating, quenching, and tempering.
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Finnish HIV Vaccine Testing To Begin
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/01/01/1436224/finnish-hiv-vaccine-testing-to-begin
“Some 1,000 patients throughout France and Switzerland will take part on the trials, with the first phase involving hundreds of HIV sufferers.”
“According to Reijonen, the GTU technology developed by FIT Biotech is also suitable for use as a preventive HIV vaccine”
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EK warns a labor shortage threatens
Employers Confederation’s chief economist, says Jussi Mustonen Yle that the bad economic situation and unemployment overshadow the point comin ‘labor.
Mustonen says the Finnish people do not take this year seriously of retiring a large number of problems arise. Next year, they will take when problems start to escalate.
“When you go a little bit forward in time, so the scarcity of labor will limit the Finnish standard of living and opportunities for growth”
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http://www.tietoviikko.fi/tividuunit/ek+varoittaa+ylella+tyovoimapula+uhkaa/a957147
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12 Surprising Things In Which Finland Is The Best In The World
http://www.buzzfeed.com/frankmartela/12-surprising-things-in-which-finland-is-the-best-fvkn
Everyone has heard about the Finnish education system and world’s best PISA results, but do you know which country has the most heavy metal bands per capita or drinks the most coffee?
Finland is a tiny country in the northernmost corner of Europe – in fact, along with Iceland it is the only country located almost completely north of the 60th latitude. It’s five and half million inhabitants could easily fit into one of the suburbs of New York or Shanghai.
Being such a tiny country with a fragile history where the three major threats were once summarized by the foreign minister as being “Russia, Russia, and Russia”, its inhabitants often exhibit low self-esteem and nervousness about “what others think about us”.
1. The Least Corrupt Government in the World
2. Most Heavy Metal Bands per Capita
3. The Best Education System in the World
4. The Country with the Heaviest Coffee Consumption in the World
5. The Least Failed State in the World
6. Most Saunas per Capita
7. Best Country in the World to Be a Mother
8. The Country Drinking the Most Milk per Capita
9. Helsinki is the most livable city in the world
10. Helsinki is the Most Honest City in the World
11. Finland does the Best Mobile Games in the World
12. The Country Borrowing the Most Books from Public Libraries per Capita
What do Finnish people drink? Beer and vodka might be the first images that come to mind. But alas, Finland is only 11th in beer consumption around the world, and much “worse” in spirit consumption. But when it comes to milk, Finnish people consume 1 liter per day per person
Well, best is always a matter of taste, but Finnish mobile games are the most successful. Supercell made recently history by holding the #1 and #2 positions as the top grossing US iPad and iPhone apps. Other recent Finnish apps hitting the top position in downloads or revenue include Badlands and Oceanhorn. In a recent chart, three Finnish companies held together more Top 5 positions in iPad charts than all US vendors combined. Not bad for a country of five million people, and surely the most hit games per capita any country has ever produced.
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Finnish businesses serious deficiencies in data security
According to soon to be published study, half of the ten largest companies in Finland of operators fail the security test. According to experts, is a common problem that companies do not take security seriously.
Audit and consulting firm KPMG’s forthcoming study, business information, security is a major gaps.
Yle News has learned that the report took part in ten of Finland’s largest listed companies belonging to the organization. Side of the break-ins were found within the internal network.
- The study does not by itself explained, from the break-ins are due. Most likely, it has been the lack of anti-virus updates and security monitoring, security expert says Matti Järvinen KPMG to.
According to the survey companies can be divided into three: those whose networks were “quite right,” those whose networks showed “some malicious traffic,” and of those who showed up to the network, “a large-scale attack traffic.” According to KPMG, the data traffic was observed in a lot of events, including corporate anti-virus programs do not work.
The report does not indicate what caused the break-ins is or how serious malware has been all about.
Lack of awareness of corporate information security is familiar to experts in the field.
- We [in Finland] security awareness is still weak. Only when the damage occurs, wake up to the fact that this has been a problem, considering the information and information technology law professor Tom Voutilainen, University of Eastern Finland.
Cyber security center Situation Centre Manager Antti Skylark not even he surprised at the results of the prior.
- We have a business casual time guidance: just taken medicine to help. The right software and equipment upgrades in shape, the Minister points out.
According to experts, information security is not understood, and not enough is known about it.
- Information security is often left to the IT department seized. It you do not meditate a comprehensive risk management point of view, but figuring out just individual technical solutions.
Malware and viruses can be “harmless,” the company’s security. At worst, lack of security, however, according to experts, lead to customer data protection failure. It may also allow for corporate espionage, clearing accounts, or even bankruptcy.
Professor Tomi Voutilainen estimates that data breaches, as well as the public and private sector actors in networks are more common than people think.
Source: YLE Uutiset
http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomalaisilla_suuryrityksilla_vakavia_puutteita_tietoturvassa/7012109
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The government asked for the residence permits
“Indian IT professionals take up jobs”
Six members of parliament has left the Board of Directors a written question, which is often true, especially in India the future of specialist expertise abuse of information technology.
For example, Indian IT workers imported to Finland often for short periods in connection with personnel reductions. Finnish train in these situations foreign counterparts in their duties before firing, after which the work may be transferred for treatment to lower-cost countries such as India.
“Systematic activities”
“The activity is structured in many companies in the software industry, and it is not coincidence that the ICT sector has recently seen large-scale layoffs. Social point of view such a development is counterproductive, as it will destroy the Finnish high skill jobs and undermine the sustainability of the national economy. In many countries, this kind it is addressed and prevented the abuse of foreign experts in specific enterprises, “the question is written.
Source:
Tietokone
http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/intialaiset_it_asiantuntijat_vievat_tyot
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Sunset did not come
One thing is for sure: the forest industry for years predicted the sunset did not happen, but rather the opposite.
In addition to traditional forest products demand and the market is also a new, wood fiber-based products and features.
Customs collects monthly information on Finland’s exports. When you look at Finland, the 10 most important export product list, can be found from the four forest product industry, namely with the grades of coated paper and paperboard, uncoated paper and board, pulp and sawn timber. These paper products exports have maintained their position among the top products for a hundred years. Quite a feat in modern Finland, where the product life cycle can be as little as a few quarter or year.
We have to increase the use of wood in Finland has excellent potential: forest reserves grow every year far more than they take advantage of what it is thanks to the strong Finnish forest know-how and skilled forest management.
The forest industry is also able to regenerate, although technological innovation into finished products requires a lot of product development and time.
Success does not happen by itself, but requires a lot of knowledge, hard work and favorable conditions, to forest green gold becomes fit for consumer products. The first two industries can influence, but the latter is largely domestic and EU policy-makers hands.
Source: Taloussanomat
http://www.taloussanomat.fi/kumppaniblogit/2014/01/06/auringonlaskua-ei-tullutkaan/2014103/322?ref=ts_blogs_iframe
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HS: The end of a direct debit and represents a cost, and system upgrades
Direct Debit ends in early February the EU regulation due. Instead, companies will send paper invoices or e-invoices where the price is more expensive. The change will also require updates to billing systems, write a newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
According to the newspaper the change has been surprisingly lukewarm, and few companies have still not changed the billing.
All bank customers, such as seniors, do not use online banking. For these customers change will produce headaches.
In particular, the e-invoice is a direct debit more expensive, as the price can be up to ten times the entrepreneur
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/hs+suoraveloituksen+loppuminen+aiheuttaa+kustannuksia+ja+jarjestelmapaivityksia/a958594
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Finnish Medixine and Qualcomm co-operation – the wildly booming industry’s first customer in England
Medixine and Qualcomm Life , Qualcomm Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the start cooperation in chronic disease care and follow up of a comprehensive solution to produce. Along with Medixine Clinic product and Qualcomm Life’s 2netTM platform and device ecosystem offer one of the most comprehensive solutions to the market, says Medixine release.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/suomalainen+medixine+ja+qualcomm+yhteistyohon++hurjan+kasvualan+ensimmainen+asiakas+englannissa/a958489
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Indian IT experts come to Finland to learn cancelable work – the Ministry has so far not addressed
Member of Parliament Ville Vähämäki (ps) presented the Board of Directors before Christmas written question relating in particular to India future of specialist expertise abuse of information technology.
Vähämäki Finland was concerned about staff reductions in the context of short periods of imported foreign workers who train their employees in Finland prior to their dismissal. After this, move the task of work to lower-cost countries such as India.
Question was also signed by five other MPs.
The Immigration Service granted a special residence permit for 758 experts in 2012. Residence permits increased last year.
For example, Indian IT workers imported to Finland often for short periods in connection with personnel reductions. Finnish train in these situations foreign counterparts in their duties before firing, after which the work may be transferred for treatment to lower-cost countries such as India.
“The activity is structured in many companies in the software industry, and it is not coincidence that the ICT sector has recently seen large-scale layoffs. Social point of view such a development is counterproductive, as it will destroy the Finnish high skill jobs and undermine the sustainability of the national economy. In many countries, this kind it is addressed and prevented the abuse of foreign experts in specific enterprises, “the question is written.
Today, Finland may come from outside the EU for up to three months to work in foreign-owned companies ease the so-called specialist. The condition is that the person will be paid a minimum of 3,000 euros in salary and possession of a university degree or otherwise acquired sufficient expertise.
The Ministry is monitoring the situation
“At the moment of specialist expertise in legal aspects regarding work status of the active legislative drafting is not pending. In addition, the preparation of visa regulations is not pending, “the minister writes.
Sources:
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/intialaiset+itasiantuntijat+tulevat+suomeen+opettelemaan+irtisanottavien+toita++ministerio+ei+toistaiseksi+puutu/a958693
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/kansanedustajat+huolestuivat+italan+ilmiosta++quotmonissa+maissa+tallaiseen+on+puututtuquot/a957669
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Sitra Trends: The European lack of ability to renew
Finland can show the way for renewal of Europe – past, through
Short-industrial history of Finland, it may be an asset when the are forced to reinvent itself
Sitra is believed that Europe will stall permanently. “The European lack of ablility to renew” is one of the Sitra in September announced a list of problems means the trend. Economic growth stuck most of Europe seems to be permanent. The former grounded in the benefits of growth does not want to give up. Runs out of money, the debt grows and society crisis.
One of the roots of the problem has been located in industrial era practices and attitudes.
The industry of the whole of society came to be seen as a bureaucratic a machine that produced the well-being of the people. It made it quite confidently and safely, but rigidly and inflexibly. Self-responsibility did not have to think about very much.
Now the industrial age mechanism is the clot. Problem for the whole of Europe. Finnish life can be, however, that the industrial age began in earnest in Finland after the Second World War. The memory of a different time to live in families and businesses. Continuous improvement and flexible and experimental approaches were the everyday life of the people a few decades ago.
- No need to go to one or two generations back, and the vast majority of the people took responsibility for their own lives. All of our families have these stories. Yes the industrial age thinking is to learn from, says Mikko Kosonen, President of Sitra.
Kosonen has investigated industrial growth clots more than 10 in an international company, among others. Nokia. He was Sitra Pesti Chief Strategy and Information Officer. He saw up close, how Nokia became a prisoner of its own success.
- The success of Nokia produced a “toxic side effects”, a sense of reality debilitating toxins. Were as a result of the tunnel vision, slowdown in decision-making and resource wasting the Kosonen says.
In Europe, it is believed that the success and safety will continue if you do not do anything, but try to maintain a world gone. Kosonen, comparing the situation in the United States.
- It is thought that regeneration is a safety condition. Regeneration is the DNA. Creative destruction is recorded in the Charter.
Does Europe want? Can a society to modernize and increase the ability to tolerate change?
- Self-grass-roots level, it does not rise. Nor in any case, not only from the top dictating.
Source:
http://www.sitra.fi/artikkelit/tulevaisuus/sitran-trendit-euroopan-uudistumiskyvyttomyys
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Information technology threatens one in three jobs
Confederation of Finnish Industries Research Institute, especially in low-paid jobs are at risk.
ETL predicted in a recent report that a couple of decades information technology has replaced a large number of low-education, in particular low-paid jobs. The private sector is suffering from the public more.
Particularly at risk are the sellers, secretaries, bank officers and office workers’ jobs. In contrast, for example, nurses, nursery nurses and social workers work is difficult to replace the use of ICT.
Jobs are disappearing, there will be new, but the rebound, unemployment could rise.
In Finland, the proportion of jobs are under threat, is less than the United States, where up to half the jobs could be replaced.
- It does not necessarily mean that there will be mass unemployment. Big things will happen in the coming years
ETL believes that in 20 years there is no longer such as truck and taxi drivers. Rouvinen note, however, that new jobs will be created. Among other things, bloggers and personal trainers are recent examples of new professions.
Complex thinking, ethics, morality and communication between people demanding jobs, however, are increasing. Also, the complex hand skills require professions, such as plumbers
- I feel that this is just normal development.
Source: Iltalehti
http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2014011317922291_uu.shtml
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Coding school for children
Reaktor to organize an event where children can try coding. The school turned out to be a success.
The event is intended for 100 children ages 4-9 with their guardians. Opportunity for all the seats were reserved for less than an hour.
The purpose is to ignite the spark of technology
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/koodauskoulu+lapsille++paikat+loppuivat+tunnissa/a959645
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Tekes launched in 2007, the Security program ends. Programme Manager Suvi Sundquist believes that safety innovations can not wait for later export successes.
Safety program has been involved in nearly 150 companies and numerous research institutes. With a total budget of EUR 134 million, of which Tekes accounted for about half.
Companies participating in the program are expected to grow nearly 670 million by 2020, most of the exports. During the program, was born more than 20 new companies and more than 80 patents. Also, the research results are expected to trade in the coming years.
Safety and Security Programme defined the security extensively. The program of projects, including the military and civilian crisis management, urban security, cyber security, safety and personal safety sectors.
Finnish small domestic market due to a large number of new products and services aimed at foreign countries. A number of global megatrends such as climate extreme events, communications and the exponential growth of the aging population, increasing interest in new types of security services and products.
Finland’s strengths include the decades, built a reputation as a neutral country, and as an active peacemaker, public authorities and the private sector co-operation between the uncomplicated and technological know-how.
Result of Nokia’s expertise in telecommunications is a prestigious third-world safety and crisis management solutions
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/turvallisuudesta+odotetaan+suomelle+satojen+miljoonien+vientibisnesta/a959739
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Finnish Study: every other large company network has signs online data breach
Every other Finnish listed companies in the networks discovered signs of the ongoing data breach, reveals a recent study. In-house systems and networks opens the encrypted connections between different parts of the world, in the servers, through which the co-ordinated attacks.
KPMG has today published study examined large Finnish companies’ IT environments, exposure to new, advanced malware, such as those used in espionage network. “Outbreak – Unknown Threat in Finland” research report can be downloaded from the company’s website.
A number of companies consider online through industrial espionage is only a theoretical threat, which is a preventable virus and passwords. In Finland, we are believed to be in advanced malware and online espionage, special position. It does not.
The study examined the situation of Finnish companies by analyzing the organizations network traffic in the autumn of 2013. The aim was to determine the exposure of companies to new and sophisticated threats zero day vulnerabilitied, which could result in, among other things, information leaks. The study involved 10 companies from various industries, most of which are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/suomalaistutkimus+joka+toisen+suuryrityksen+verkossa+merkkeja+tietomurrosta/a959807
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Unknown Threat in Finland
http://www.kpmg.com/FI/fi/Ajankohtaista/Uutisia-ja-julkaisuja/Neuvontapalvelut/Sivut/unknown-threat-in-finland.aspx
Conclusions
The main finding of the study is that almost half of the
case organisations in the scope of the study are already
breached. It means that organisations in Finland cannot
trust that their information assets are secured
In the study, we noticed that there is a lot of malicious
zero-day traffic that is impossible to detect using traditional
information security solutions. In addition to this advanced
threat, there is also known malicious traffic that should not
exist if already installed solutions would work properly.
Organisations should investigate whether their protection
mechanisms are sufficient in today’s interconnected world
where attacks are growing in complexity.
Information security attacks may have significant
business impact. Therefore, it is essential that IT and
business functions have a regular dialogue on the state of
information security and handle information security risks
as part of day-to-day risk management
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Risto Siilasmaa Yle: Nokia and Finland were unstoppable
Nokia’s Chairman of the Board and the Company’s Interim President and CEO Risto Siilasmaa is a concern that Finland is the same way as Nokia, says Yle. Both were ten years ago unstoppable.
“If you look at Finnish, we all remember the turn of the 2000s, when Finland was the best in the world in almost everything. We believed in it, because foreigners said so,” Siilasmaa said the Ministry of Employment and the Economy’s Backbone seminar on Wednesday.
Nokia’s Symbian was the best suited for 71 percent of the market share.
“It was believed continued success. It probably had some kind of effect that it was not possible to change the direction of the nose.”
Siilasmaa is concerned about how many other Finnish front of the one in the private sector have to work to earn. Now the ratio is 2.2
ETLA calculates that the reading would be 2.6 in 2030.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/risto+siilasmaa+ylelle+nokia+ja+suomi+olivat+pysayttamattomia/a960211
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Bank Branches depart from elsewhere – the Finnish IT houses can work
A Finnish IT companies gain tens of millions of euros of business opportunities in Central and Eastern European banking sector. Accordingly estimates of Finnish companies, Finpro export incentive.
The next few years, banks are reducing their costs by cutting the number of offices and directing clients in dealing with the Internet.
Finpro Roman Head of Trade Center Alexander de Reuterhorn release says that in Central and Eastern Europe are still a number of bank branches in every village. However, they will be shut down.
In Finland, the corresponding changes are already experienced in his view, at the turn of the 2000s.
Central and Eastern European banks shall, in addition of new systems, among other things, to increase their sales and automate their services.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/pankkikonttorit+lahtevat+muualtakin++suomalaiset+ittalot+paasevat+toihin/a960787
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Service Bus requires retrofitting
Built in Finland, the national bus service. It promises to correct the public information bosom sin: information travels slightly between different systems.
Service Bus in practice means that key information and databases are mutually compatible interfaces. In the future, all new systems are required compatibility with the bus service. Also, companies can join the Avenues of Service.
The solution is an open source code, which is provided free from Estonia. It is a pity that this concept has not been invented before.
In front of it is still an expensive chore. Part of the legacy systems is gradually replaced by new ones that support the fairway.
There remains a considerable amount of systems that can not come to change for many years. They have to connect the service bus retrofits.
In many cases, the interfaces are closed, and are copyrights of their suppliers. Integrations to be had for them over the years, profitable business. System vendors will not connect the software to the service bus for free.
National bus service is implemented as part of a national service architecture. It is entirely set aside money of € 120 million by the year 2017.
Implementation will continue even after this, but the cost is not yet known. Ministry of Finance estimates that the service bus can be comprehensively ten years: in other words, in 2024.
Fortunately, the solution is at least open source.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/blogit/uutiskommentti/palveluvayla+vaatii+jalkiasennuksia/a960943
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Finnish innovations fared very well in the international Quality Innovation Competition.
Responsible for innovation was won by the city of Espoo Energy Information Service. It is a browser-based energy sources to renewable energy comparison service for those considering the transition.
Finnish Stick Tech’s teeth Patching fibrous reinforcement material was selected as the best innovation of the year.
Counties that took part in competition: Finland, Latvia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/espoon+energiatietopalvelu+palkittiin/a961114
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Researchers: transition, job changes, will not stop
- In the future, we bake bread, among other things, a new environmental technologies, inventions and happiness, health and welfare services, thinks the future, Olli Hietanen Development Research Centre University of Turku.
He is convinced Finnish power projection, and is doing, even if the threats stir up fear, even hopelessness.
Economy ETLA, the Research Institute’s recent report predicted that robots take jobs up to a third.
He already sees the current labor wildly transition path to a new, better life.
- In the old job has a lot of things that are ready to die out, Hietanen notes and says that work on any end. It just changes form.
- As before there is no turning back, but the future possibilities are staggering. We are a one of the world’s most competitive nations and most talented
Hietanen believes that changing attitudes is now the Finns the biggest challenge, because there is no complaint to the new.
- In front of us is a wild adolescence, but it should not be feared. The challenges are solvable, but the first to take care of the fact that the human resources are still there, Manka says
- No one tired, exhausted ideas for this new world, to be creative and composing. Now, all over the Haari is far too much, and people have no time to think about how different things would sense.
Source: Turun Sanomat
http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/585470/Tutkijat+Murroksessa+tyo+muuttuu+ei+lopu
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Mobility will rise to CIOs top coat instead of analytics . Norway and Sweden, this has already happened, Finland and Denmark following a little behind.
Management Event made by a joint Nordic survey, nearly half of IT managers expect the mobility of the betting improving the quality of service.
Sweden is expected to mobiliteettipanostusten addition to improving employee satisfaction and facilitate the recruitment of new talent.
Mobile Policies vary. The Danish-Norwegian, and about two-thirds of the leaders allow employees to choose a mobile device – either all the options available in the market or the company specifically designs approved by the crowd.
In Sweden, the device policy is the most stringent in the Nordic countries
Finland is in the middle ground – although Finnish IT managers as much as a quarter reported that their companies have no policy on the mobile device when the Danes, by contrast, 93 per cent that they had very clear rules of the game for mobile devices.
No sector has clearly risen above the rest in mobile investments. The forerunners were in different lines of the individual companies that are clearly recognize the business benefits of mobility.
Source: Tietokone
http://www.tietokone.fi/artikkeli/uutiset/mobiiliteetin_edut_eivat_kaikille_kirkkaita
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Espoo, the main candidate for the innovation head city
The city of Espoo is the main candidate for the first innovation capital. The European Union will make its choice in March and the Espoo is among the six finalists. All in all, the name was pursuing almost 60 European city.
The application has been spearheaded by the Otaniemi, Tapiola and Keilaniemi area, located in the largest innovation center, Espoo, Finland Innovation Garden. It will develop and flourish in the T3-cycle approach, where science, economics, and art meet. The area of science and research community, businesses, cultural operators, city and city dwellers are building an exceptional package of co-operation.
- The choice is among the finalist cities Espoo, Finland and the great achievement. It is an indication that the adoption of a much-needed passion, desire, will, and can be found in the attitude of doing things together, Espoo Mayor Jukka Mäkelä.
Rise in the ranks of the finalist cities of Espoo to strengthen the reputation and increase the attractiveness of Finland in international competition for business sites and skilled people.
International panel of experts will interview the finalist cities in Brussels this week and results will be announced in March.
Source:
http://www.espoo.fi/fi-FI/Espoo_vahvasti_ehdolla_Euroopan_innovaat%2843237%29
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Transparent screens and sausage casings – did you know these thriving Finnish export companies?
Finland has a number of internationally successful companies, whose names may not be known home of the village longer.
Yle News presents 20 different-sized domestic companies, which are strongly oriented towards the export market.
Most companies in focus is a self-developed product or product group. Small and medium-sized enterprises to the Finnish mainstay has grown, as almost all the new jobs are now just such firms. Sized enterprises jobs in the last few years have not just been born.
- These companies have a positive example of the fact that they have sought growth outside Europe, says the company familiar with the list of the Confederation small Pentti Mäkinen.
20 success stories, the unknown
Glykos Finland, Helsinki
Napa-yhtiöt, Helsinki
Blancco, Joensuu
Veekmas, Kitee
Pemamek, Loimaa
ViskoTeepak, Maarianhamina
Kuomiokoski, Mikkeli
Herrmanns, Pedersören kunta
Lamor Group, Porvoo
Beacon Finland, Rauma
Forchem, Rauma
Sako, Riihimäki
Teknikum, Sastamala
Ata Gears, Tampere
Biovian, Turku
KWH Mirka, Uusikaarlepyy
Vahterus, Uusikaupunki
Beneq, Vantaa
Avant Tecno, Ylöjärvi
Dynaset, Ylöjärvi
Source: YLE Uutiset
http://yle.fi/uutiset/lapinakyvia_nayttoja_ja_makkarankuoria__tiesitko_naista_menestyvista_suomalaisista_vientiyrityksista/7043702
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Programming will be part of the basic school curriculum , Minister of Education Kiuru says to
the Helsingin Sanomat on Tuesday in children’s coding school arranged by Reaktor. Programming does not come of its own in the subject , but teaching is arranged in conjunction with other subjects.
Minister Kiuru has already spoken to the basic result of the programming for the school. In November, he told ICT in education consist of four of the area , of which programming is only one.
Other areas are responsible and safe operation of the intelligence and investigative work of learning as well as communication and interpersonal skills.
ICT ‘s role is going to grow by other means . ” We can not afford to stay in the ICT know-how to other countries any more after . Example, Singapore is taught in programming for pre-school education ” , the Minister commented Helsingin Sanomat.
The new curriculum will come into force in 2016.
The use of ICT in Finnish schools is desired to increase for a longer period of time. University of Helsinki, Professor of Educational Psychology Kirsti Lonka has made several attempts to get teachers excited about the potential of mobile devices in education.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/ministeri+hslle+ohjelmoinnista+ei+tule+itsenaista+oppiainetta/a961489
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Board of Education responded to the Principal IT pondering: “He is in the right”
Opintopolku system is used, among other things, to report ninth-graders graduate their study wishes
the school could not be, inter alia, to ensure that the information was assigned correctly.
Information Week, e-mail rejoinder submitted by Board of Education recognizes that the system is not ready yet
“Step by step completion of the means that first implemented the necessary functionality, and usability in the initial stages had to haggle. Also, the guidance in the content and the parties find, as well as in communications is still room for improvement, ”
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/opetushallitus+vastasi+rehtorin+itihmettelyyn+quothan+on+asiassa+oikeassaquot/a962060
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Half a billion IT project rejoices the right decision – was permitted to continue
The Market justice has cleared Aportti project to continue the patient information system procurement procedure (there was complaining filed last week) . The Market Court considered that the acquisition of this suspension would have been a major inconvenience compared to the benefits.
Apotti project is to replace the HUS, Helsinki and other municipalities in the region HUS patient information systems. The estimate project is 350-450 million euros over ten years.
Abbot of the project to inform them that they are to enter into negotiations with the companies selected according to its planned schedule even in February. Included are increasingly Atos IT Solutions and Services, CGI Finland, Epic Systems Corporation, IBM Canada, InterSystems Corporation and Tieto Healthcare & Wealthfare
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/puolen+miljardin+ithanke+iloitsee+oikeuden+paatoksesta++sai+luvan+jatkaa/a962091
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Finnish Linda to the smooth set of funding arising from the book project has increased the popularity of high Kickstarter service. The slick design book, which is designed to teach children the basic concepts of programming through storytelling .
Book aim of the project was to collect a total of 10 000 dollars in funding , but the pot is already in two days increased to more than 115 000 dollars, or about 84 000 Euros.
The book is in English , and is intended for ages 4-7 years .
Linda Liukas is one of the the Rails Girls- movement founders.
Hello Ruby
by Linda Liukas
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby
Hello Ruby is a children’s book that teaches programming fundamentals through stories and kid-friendly activities.
Now, I want to combine software with storytelling. I want to write and illustrate a book for young children about the magical world of technology – Hello Ruby.
Twitter: @lindaliukas
Blog: http://helloruby.com
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Finland has slid downhill after the financial crisis, for six years. Although the world is already a little better, this will be Finland’s longest peacetime downturn in at least 150 years, during which time the statistics of GDP has been made.
As soon as the statistical period at the beginning of the year 1867 frost knocked to the GDP soared
In 1876 started the recession reduced the GDP
World had very bad depression of the 1930s in Finland was mild.
Depression of the 1990s in Finland is still remembered as well. In the early years of the decade, and the devaluation of the markka float made it possible to lower interest rates. For example, the average interest rate in 1992 was 12%, compared with the current 1.5 per cent. Decrease in interest rates, currency loss, the recovery process and the Nokia bet exports were rising and the economy running. Economic pit was filled in six years.
The current downturn will be the longest period during the peace time. Little by little started will continue to grow in the coming years so slow that the economy fill up the pit goes up to 9 years.
we live in an economic sense, indeed the lost decade.
Even the Second World War, the impact on GDP was not so long. Then the GDP returned to the source rest on the platform for over five years. The current downturn with the same long benefited only the period starting from 1913. First, the First World War and then the Civil War extended the GDP pit nine-year term.
It is no wonder that this will be the longest real wages fall season
Source:
http://newsroom.nordea.com/fi/blogpost/historian-pisin-laskukausi/
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Laws force to make complex IT systems
International comparisons show themselves: public-sector e-services are lagging badly behind on the Finland.
“Even if all sides are known and identified, what we are going towards, Finland has still not reacted strongly enough matter,” Solita Vice President Timo Honko (pictured) complains.
One of the e-government as a catalyst, he instead sees the Estonian model of the introduction of bus service in Finland.
“In this context, the line again, among other things, authentica and security issues,” says Halttunen.
Honko shall appoint one factor that slows down the public-sector e-services system development, a detailed regulation of the challenges posed. When IT systems must support exactly what the laws and regulations laid down, they become easy to complex, as well as, in principle, large and wide-ranging.
Also, e-government inevitably brought about by changes in operating procedures and processes will require consideration of the legislation.
“In addition, the law obliges the state administration to provide their services equally to all citizens, which means that old ways needs to stay available for long time”
It really eat a lot of efficiency and prevents access to the goal of saving on users’ Honko says.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/lait+pakottavat+tekemaan+monimutkaisia+itjarjestelmia/a960084
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Finpro: Finland can beat appropriations for information security
Security and ICT solutions offered are one of the few industries that have grown up through the financial crisis . Finland has a chance of winning in this situation the business, estimates Finpro in a statement.
According to the Finnish company’s innovative security solutions are in demand in many different sectors.
The security market has grown in Europe launch cyber-attacks and other security threats due . Companies and organizations want to ensure data secrecy and security threats evolve.
Security snooping and launch cyber-attacks have led to the fact that companies are considering more closely the European security and privacy practices.
There is a growing need for new and neutral security vendors. Finnish companies have world-class expertise in security solutions and a neutral reputation.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/finpro+suomi+pystyy+lyomaan+rahoiksi+tietoturvalla/a962667
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New markets violate the limits of business
The new digital markets are larger sources of growth as their displaced by the traditional sectors.
Accenture’s Davos Forum, carried out by remarking Customer Markets: Unlocking Growth with Digital survey, as many as 60 percent of 500 business leaders we interviewed told the company applying for the growth of new lines of business or in collaboration with other sectors.
According to the study of big business leaders attached to digital with the blurring caused by the industry the most significant change in the business environment over the next five years.
“In Finland, the change is reflected particularly in the consumer business and the public sector. Digital business development of traditional industries are the most advanced telecommunications and media, ”
The traditional industries, such as insurance, machinery and equipment manufacturing, as well as the energy and process industries, in turn, focus on activities for digitalization of the cost-efficiency in order to achieve growth.
Outside the industry, the growth of the companies applying for the 63 per cent intended to form strategic partnerships, and 46 percent to expand through joint ventures.
Of the respondents stressed the leaders of the majority of both the technology and the importance of co-operation skills as an enabler for companies’ success.
Half of the leaders raised the critical role of digital capabilities, 48 percent of mobile computing and mobile applications, and 46 percent of social media.
On the other hand 58 percent of the respondents had personal relations and networks of the most important enablers of success.
In order to succeed in the digital market, companies should invest in research that, among other things, also the customized user experiences enable the analytics and product development accelerators technologies.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/cio/uudet+markkinat+rikkovat+toimialarajoja/a962775
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Here it is – the license plates reader for police car
The police-car automatic license plate reader was introduced to the media on Monday.
The device is manufactured by the Finnish company, purchased with donated funds.
Traffic control revolutionary device reads license plates and compares them to the police database, the entered information. The device will alert you as soon as its license plate reading can be found in the file.
cars stolen more easily picked up by the flow of traffic. Similarly, the cars are exposed to the tax is not paid, the police Seppo Kolehmainen Police Board says.
The device is expected to improve traffic safety considerably.
Today introduced license plate reading system will be tested in the police cars during the spring. The test period, the unit will be incrementally introduced more widely.
Source: Iltalehti
http://www.iltalehti.fi/autot/2014012717977625_au.shtml
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Will there be a dumb terminal to your home? Supermatrix the project progresses
ICT companies in the organization Finnet has developed a Super Matrix-pc-venture even less than 10 euros a month’s prices the planned replacement of the traditional computer terminal consumers. The project pilots were made last year and now Finnet is entering the next stage. The technology is ready for use.
“We wondered how the project will be incorporated. Finnet is not the best option for Supermatrixin commercialization.”
Finnet by the project pilot tests last year. The feedback was good. Participated in the test a few hundred users.
“About 30 per cent said that this type of technology could do some work,” Matilainen says.
Still, a great potential user group Finnet sees seniors.
Supermatrixia initially developed for Linux-based platform.
“Last summer, rolled his technology to the Linux-based Android. It is very accessible to low-cost iron, ”
In the past, Supermatrixin was estimated to receive 100 000 users.
“It can be 100, 000 or 300 000 users. The situation has changed during the project period and will certainly be a lot of changes in the future. My guess, however, that there is a big market, ”
In the last few years become more popular cloud services, will have to wait until the Super Matrix ‘success. Cloud, the demand has increased all the time, and the same goes for virtualization and terminals.
“Now the market seems to be still quite smart phone and tablet PC-stage,” Matilainen says.
Source: Tietoviikko
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Mobile data in Finland grew last year by almost 60 percent. In four years, the traffic has more than quintupled. Exponential growth stagnation is no sign.
ICT industry association FiCom , according to statistics compiled by the 2013 January-June, mobile data in Finland were transferred to 67,000 terabytes.
Behind the growth of smartphones and tablets, especially the rapid growth. Tablet sales in Finland grew last year by almost a factor of 2.5, and the smartphone trade increased by a fifth.
Mobile traffic is growing big in Finland about the same rate globally.
Source: Tietoviikko
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/uutisia/mobiilidata+kasvaa+60/a963654