Digital Agenda

The City of Espoo’s aim is to promote the digitalisation of municipal services, utilisation of new technology, introduction of electronic services and adoption of new operating methods. These are the goals we are implementing in the Digital Agenda programme.

The need for digitalisation always starts with the needs of the activities. We seek better profitability and cost effectiveness for municipal services and administration through digitalisation. We also want to create even more convenient and comprehensive services for our different customer segments.

Valuable information through experiments

Espoo’s Digital Agenda is based on experiments. They last from a few months to a year.

In the experiments, we test product and service ideas and develope them with companies, educational institutions, research institutes and customers in the spirit of co-creation.

The experiments provide information about whether the tested service would have users, function as part of Espoo services and produce benefits for the city and customers.

Future solutions for multiple needs

Our aim with the Digital Agenda experiments is to identify functional future solutions in the market that would meet the needs of the growing city’s core services. We are looking for solutions that can be used in many different services and are suitable for different customer and user groups.

Digital experiments also offer a way of introducing new digital services to our customers and personnel and establishing a culture of experimentation in Espoo. Through the experiments, our personnel have seen how future solutions may affect work tasks. We have also received information for procurement planning.

Our digital experiments have, for example, promoted the success of start-ups both nationally and internationally. Feedback from companies has been positive: products and services are being developed together with the city and its residents.

Some of our experiments have had research value – we have thus also confirmed the usefulness of our experiments in scientific terms.

 

Digiagenda 3.0

Experiments in 2023-2024

Additional information