Politik

Something new for the EU - fair data economy high on the agenda of Finland’s EU Presidency beginning today. MyData is part of the story

  Starting today, Finland leads the international conversation on the development of the ground rules for a human-centered data economy. The programme of Finland's EU Presidency published last Wednesday reads: "More work is needed to achieve a competitive, human-driven data economy by promoting the availability, interoperability and use of data, while also respecting the rights and privacy of...

SLS ger ut biografi om 1800-talspåverkaren J. V. Snellman

Raimo Savolainens bok Med bildningens kraft. J. V Snellmans liv är den första svenskspråkiga biografin om Snellman sedan början av 1900-talet. Filosofen och publicisten Snellman var en inflytelserik aktör i 1800-talets Finland. Han arbetade för den finska nationens ställning och framhävde bildning som en förutsättning för nationens utveckling. Under sitt liv uppträdde Johan Vilhelm Snellman...

5 reasons why Bitcoin or Cloak is better New Years present than money

Surprised by the title of the article? At first, your friends, family, relatives or colleagues might be surprised by this gift.  Most likely you have already heard enough about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies - you have heard a lot of good and a lot of bad. However, nothing new, because each emerging and unexplored technology always has a barrage of criticism and negativity. So let us consider the...

Pitching from an ice hole - a perfect example of Finnish innovation

What is the scariest stage you have been on? This is a question Finns are giving an easy answer to once again this February. Polar Bear Pitching is a unique pitching event in that there is no time limit for your speech, but you have to do it while standing waist deep in a hole carved to the frozen Baltic Sea. Finns like to describe their attitude towards life with one word, sisu. Sisu stands for...