We are thrilled to announce that we are working with VR, the Finnish Railway company, to develop a green manifesto for their IT department. The manifesto will include green coding principles, equipment renewal guidance, and supplier compliance requirements. One of the main objectives of the project is to educate employees on how everyday choices in IT department can have a positive impact on environmental sustainability.

The City of Tampere has chosen Digitalist to become its partner in service design from the beginning of 2023. This partnership makes the City of Tampere yet another city to join our city design clientele, which already consists of the City of Helsinki and the City of Turku . 

Digitalist has been selected to design and implement the online services for the newly established Finnish Service Center for Continuous Learning and Employment (SECLE). SECLE is a new authority and procurement unit under the Finnish National Agency for Education, and it promotes the competence development of working-age people and the availability of skilled labor in Finland. It is responsible for developing information-, advisory- and guidance services, analysing and interpreting foresight about competence and labor market needs, financing education and training for working-age people, and supporting regional and other cooperation.

Creating an innovative model for managing Helsinki Visitor Experience

The City of Helsinki is developing a new model for managing Helsinki’s visitor experience, and we are very excited to be chosen as their partner for that development task. In order to achieve the strategic goals of the Helsinki tourism and events 2022-2026 action plan, the development of a management model for Helsinki’s visitor experience that combines different tourism and visitor services have been started.

Over the past years, we have had the pleasure of working with several cities in Finland, to design better experiences for citizens and make organisational operations more fluid. This has allowed us to develop “city design” expertise and a seamless approach to designing functional, memorable, and distinct experiences together with different stakeholders. Our way of working involves citizens, civil servants, and city workers in co-creating a better life in urban environments.

In June 2022 the City of Helsinki chose Digitalist as its service partner for the following two years. The new frame agreement will further deepen the partnership that has already existed between the City of Helsinki and Digitalist. We have worked with the City of Helsinki by providing service design and extensive research services for the hel.fi-website project since 2018. As part of this work we have been responsible for the new hel.fi online community, that contains more than 600 citizens who are co-creating services together with the City of Helsinki.