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INFORMATION SOCIETY POLICY PROGRAMME IN
FINLAND REGNO 2004 Conference 30.9.2004,
Tallinn Estonia
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• Presentation
• Finnish information society programme
• Information society council
• Finnish national broadband strategy
• Jupa project for online public services
• Prime Ministers best practice award

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Plan of action, World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) Geneva 2003

• Development of national e-strategies, including
  the necessary human capacity building, should be
  encouraged by all countries by 2005, taking into
  account different national circumstances.
• Initiate at the national level a structured
  dialogue involving all relevant stakeholders,
  including through public/private partnerships, in
  devising e-strategies for the Information Society
  and for the exchange of best practices.

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• What does the information society mean?
• Cooperation
• Networks and networking
• Creativity/Innovations
• Speed
• Information as a significant factor of production
• Non-hierarchical
• Freedom of speech
• Combining different stakeholders fields of
  knowledge
• Distinction of relevant and irrelevant
  information
• Information sharing
• Utilization of ICT
• Promoting equality or creating inequality?

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• The first Finnish Information Society Strategy in
  1994
• Current programme adopted by the Government
  25.9.2003
• Headed by PM Matti Vanhanen and ministerial group
  (PM 4)
• Focus on
• the implementation of the available technologies
• the provision of new electronic services
• the re-engineering and development of both back
  and front office processes
• co-operation and intersectorality

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• Latest figures
• Broadband connections in Finland 09/2004
• about 750.000 (2,4 million households in Finland)
• eEurope 2005 A study of the degree of alignment
  of the New Member States and the Candidate
  Countries 09/2004 Finland in a first place in
  governments programme success to promote the use
  of ICT
• Kauppalehti newspaper 20.9.2004
• Volume of the purchases via Internet 2004 2,1
  billion euro
• Number of egovernment services in the central
  governance
• Number has arisen 31 in a year (259 ? 339)

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Accentures worldwide e-governance survey 2004,
12.5.2004
Source Accenture
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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• Finlands strong e-gov areas 2004
• Elections
• Working life
• 2nd grade education, adult and supplementary
  education
• Civil participation and information channels for
  citizens, transparency of legislation
  preparation procedures
• Agriculture
• Population registration
• Consumer affairs
• Postal services

Source Accenture
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Use of Internet during last 3 months autumn 2000
spring 2004 per age,
Source Statistics Finland
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Percentage of people who have done shopping via
Internet during last 3 months
Source Statistics Finland
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• RD expenditure of GDP in a number of EU and OECD
  countries in 1995-2002

Source Statistics Finland
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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• Challenges ahead
• Ageing population ? diminishing support base
• Increasing demand for social and health services
• Regional inequality
• International and domestic economic situation
• EU enlargement and Finland as a net contributor
• Increased global competition
• The intensity of international tax competition
• The need to increase productivity and improve
  processes
• Sustaining competitiveness
• Focusing and increasing funding for RD

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• THE AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME ARE
• to boost competitiveness
• to boost productivity
• to promote social equality
• to promote regional equality
• to improve citizens' welfare
• to improve the quality of life
• through an effective utilisation of ICT
• GOVERNMENTS OTHER POLICY PROGRAMMES ARE
• employment policy programme
• entrepreneurship policy programme
• civil participation policy programme

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
The Information Society Programme also aims to
maintain Finlands status as one of the
leading producers and users of ICT in the world.
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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• Another main goal is to
• make public administration more transparent by
• Giving citizens an opportunity to actively
  participate in the administrative preparation
  processes
• Offering citizens overall administrative
  information

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• The main mission of the programme is
• An information society for all
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• Every citizen should have the possibility to use
  information society services
• Public administration should increase
  productivity and reengineer its processes and
  action models with the help of ICT
• Business sector should be able to improve its
  competitiveness

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
A positive circle of the information society
development
Electronic services and new technology
New and permanent trade and business
Jobs and/or tax revenues
Welfare
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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• SUB-SECTORS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
• PROGRAMME
• Telecommunication infrastructure and digital
  television
• Citizens ability to utilise the information
  society and ways to boost the use of information
  society services
• Education, working life, research and development
• Electronic services in public administration
• Social welfare and health care
• Electronic commerce, digital contents and
  services
• Government IT services
• Legislative measures

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• The Information Society Programme aims to achieve
  the
• following 8 impact objectives
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• All citizens will be able to use information
  society services irrespective of their residence
  or social status
• All citizens can acquire basic information
  technology skills, media literacy, and the skills
  needed for using information technology services
  in accordance with their needs
• Electronic transaction and data networks will be
  secure, and citizens can trust in electronic
  services

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• The Information Society Programme aims to achieve
  the
• following 8 impact objectives
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• Information and communications technology will be
  used in all organizations with the aim of
  improving service levels, making operations and
  processes more efficient and maintaining and
  improving competitiveness
• All employees, regardless of their work and
  field, will possess a high degree of information
  society skills while the supply of trained
  workforce needed in a rapidly developing
  information society will be guaranteed
• Public administration services will be made
  customer-oriented and, in order to save costs,
  operate in real time they will be carried out as
  joint processes within the public administration
  and in cooperation with other actors

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• The Information Society Programme aims to achieve
  the
• following 8 impact objectives
• By investing heavily in research and product
  development and by targeting the inputs
  effectively, Finland will remain at the cutting
  edge of the information society development
• The Finnish information society scores high marks
  in international comparisons and Finland can also
  use its own information society policy to
  influence international development

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• SOME EXAMPLES OF THE PROJECTS / MEASURES OF THE
• PROGRAMME
• Implementation of the broadband strategy so that
  fast, reasonably priced communications links are
  available to all citizens in 2005 (eEurope 2005)
  (Ministry of Transport and Communications)
• Strengthening media education in different
  educational sectors (eEurope 2005) (Ministry of
  Education)
• Raising the level of public sector funding for
  research and development and putting it on a
  stronger basis (Ministry of Trade and Industry,
  Ministry of Education)

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• SOME EXAMPLES OF THE PROJECTS / MEASURES OF THE
• PROGRAMME
• Definition and introduction of agreed network
  services in public administration (eEurope 2005)
  (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Interior)
• Developing the usability and joint usage of basic
  registries
• Implementation of a seamless service chain in
  social welfare and health (Ministry of Social
  Affairs and Health)
• Promoting the introduction of information and
  communications technology, new business models
  and new ways of organizing work in SMEs (eEurope
  2005) (Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry
  of Labour)

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• PRIORITIES MADE BY THE MINISTERIAL GROUP, 1st OF
  SEPTEMBER
• Horizontal and vertical cooperation
• Development of service production in the public
  sector (with help of ICT)
• Education and citizens ability to utilise the
  information society
• Telecommunication infrastructure
• Legislation and operational environment

• Even if some sectors are prioritised ministerial
  group saw important that all other measures
  stated in the programme proceed on schedule and
  during the governments term of office also new
  initiatives are made

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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
GOVERNMENT

• PRIME MINISTER
• AND A MINISTERIAL GROUP
• 5 ministers

• INFORMATION
• SOCIETY COUNCIL
• ministerial group
• 36 companies and other organisations
• 7 permanent experts

• PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
• AND THE PDS OFFICE
• 6 persons

• 7 SECTIONS OF THE COUNCIL
• external interest groups
• ministries representatives

• STEERING COMMITTEE
• FOR THE PROGRAMME
• 13 ministries
• local authorities representatives

• COUNCIL
• SECRETERIAT
• 12 representatives from ministries

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INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL
INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL The Information
Society Council is a negotiation body for
steering the development of the information
society and for coordinating cooperation between
administration, organisations and business life
The members and permanent experts of the Finnish
Information Society Council will promote the
information society development in their own
organizations and interest groups.
IMPORTANT!
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INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL

• INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL
• The Council has been assigned the following
  tasks
• to discuss the main policies regarding the
  development of the information society
• to anticipate, monitor and assess information
  society development and related impacts,
  possibilities and threats and to put forward
  initiatives to promote intersectoral cooperation
  
• to follow and discuss horizontal initiatives
  and legislative proposals relating to
  information society development and to monitor
  their implementation

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INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL

• INFORMATION SOCIETY COUNCIL
• The Council has been assigned the following
  tasks
• to follow international information society
  development and put forward proposals on
  Finland's policies
• to develop interaction between business life
  and administration in information society
  development projects
• to assess the Information Society Programme and
  its progress and to report to Government on the
  state of Finland's information society
  development

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Citizen forum otakantaa.fi tellusyouropinion.c
om In February we asked citizens what they think
about information society Ministerial group has
been informed about the results
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FINNISH INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME

• MAIN ISSUES RAISED (OTAKANTAA.FI)
• Nationwide broadband access, without regional
  price variations
• Internet as an ideal channel for distributing
  educational material material should be provided
  free-of-charge
• Broadband usage for eWork, health care, culture
• More public online services
• Information security
• More substance, less high-tech

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NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY

• The strategy's targets to be achieved by the end
  of 2005 are
• 1,000,000 broadband connections in Finland (all
  technologies) ? by now already about 750,000
• everyone has access to affordable, high-speed
  telecommunications with a comprehensive
  geographical coverage
• Finland is the leader in the availability and use
  of high-speed telecommunications in Europe

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NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY

• The Government's broadband strategy is
• to promote competition within and between all
  communications networks
• to promote the provision of electronic services
  and content
• to stimulate demand for broadband services
• to continue and develop special supporting
  measures in those geographical areas in which
  there is insufficient demand for the commercial
  supply of broadband

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NATIONAL BROADBAND STRATEGY

• 50 measures to implement the strategy
• More competition within and between the different
  communications networks
• Speeding up the introduction and spread of new
  broadband technologies
• Development of electronic transactions and
  on-line business
• Effective participation of businesses and
  individuals in the information society
• Promoting data security and privacy
  protection           
• Special measures for regional development
• Contributing to and monitoring international
  developments
• Monitoring the strategy

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JUPA PROJECT FOR ONLINE PUBLIC SERVICES

• Objectives
• Improve and enhance public service production and
  productivity as well as to ensure the
  availability and quality of public services
• Support cooperation between municipalities, and
  cooperation between municipalities and other
  public and private actors
• Promote the use of online public services
• Make the work carried out in a number of regions
  accessible for all.

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JUPA PROJECT FOR ONLINE PUBLIC SERVICES

• Aims
• The JUPA project aims to describe and model the
  selected processes and set of services.
• The new operating models, that is, service
  processes will serve as the basis for projects
  launched for introducing online public services.
• Specified services will be implemented and
  introduced in 2005

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JUPA PROJECT FOR ONLINE PUBLIC SERVICES

• Services that are mapped
• Services for aged people
• Housing
• Construction and environment
• School system services
• Day care services
• Services related to tourism, culture and leisure

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PRIME MINISTERS BEST PRACTICE AWARD

• In brief
• Best practices related to information society are
  collected in www.infosoc.fi
• Best practice prize awarded by the Prime
  Minister, november 2004
• Prizes 80 000

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PRIME MINISTERS BEST PRACTICE AWARD
Increased awareness
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PRIME MINISTERS BEST PRACTICE AWARD

• Series in a year 2004
• Social- and healthcare
• Education and learning
• eWork
• Cooperation projects
• eCommerce
• Quality competition for best public sector
  web-services

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PRIME MINISTERS BEST PRACTICE AWARD

• Jury in a year 2004
• Minister of Transport and Communications Leena
  Luhtanen (chairman)
• Minister of Education Tuula Haatainen
• Content Director Harri Saukkomaa, United
  Magazines Ltd
• Executive Vice President Matti Korkeela, OKO Bank
• Director General Vappu Taipale, National Research
  and Development Centre for Welfare and Health,
  Stakes
• Executive Director Esko Lotvonen, Regional
  Council of Lapland
• Programme Director Katrina Harjuhahto-Madetoja
  (secretary)

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More information Ville-Veikko Ahonen 358 9 160
22364 ville-veikko.ahonen_at_vnk.fi or
tietoyhteiskuntaohjelma_at_vnk.fi www.infosoc.fi