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Openness is finally coming to Finland, sped up by open source code and the Barack Obama administration, for example. Hand in hand with openness comes the desire – or rather, the demand – for making the administrative processes more transparent … Lue loppuun

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The Monthly theme is written by Roope Mokka from Demos Helsinki. Translation by Tomi Leivo. After the economic depression of the 1990s, the middle class in Finland increased its financial wealth at an amazing speed. At the same time, Finland … Lue loppuun

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The monthly theme is written by Timo Hämäläinen from Sitra. Translation by Tomi Leivo. Finland got lucky in the recession of the 1990s. During recovery, the fallen production domains were instantly replaced with the booming telecommunications industry, with exponentially growing … Lue loppuun

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Translation by Tomi Leivo. Design is not usually brought up as a theme for foresight. Design is dismissed as a superficial phenomenon related to fashion, without any relevance in societal foresight. At the same time, companies embracing the value of … Lue loppuun

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Translation by Tomi Leivo. One of the hot topics in foresight is the countryside. What will be grown on farms in the future? How will it be grown? Will the countryside remain as a place of residence? Will there be … Lue loppuun

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The steering group of the National Foresight Network assembles four times a year. Two of the meetings are workshops that discuss the collectively gathered change phenomena. These phenomena include both weak signals as well as well-known themes. The observations are … Lue loppuun

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Today, foresight receives more attention than futures research. These two fields could easily be taken as one and the same, which is partly true. However, they do have their differences. The roots of futures research are in the 1960’s, when … Lue loppuun

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Two sets of food scenarios to be published in December Food and the future of food production have been discussed in, for example, the food change scenarios of Sitra’s ERA project and the Mirhami project, coordinated by the Finland Futures … Lue loppuun

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