Fintraffic joins Data Spaces Alliance Finland – a network of data business pioneers launched
Fintraffic has joined the Data Spaces Alliance Finland –network as one of the founding members. Data spaces create opportunities for companies to accelerate growth and innovation, secure access to critical resources and enable the sale and sharing of data between multiple actors. Data space technologies are also important enablers for the development of artificial intelligence solutions.
By bringing together the key players and active data space initiatives, we will ensure their seamless interplay and the competitiveness of Finnish players in the European data economy and more broadly internationally.
“It’s great to be involved in promoting data economy and enhancing the competitiveness of Finnish experts within this network by incorporating traffic data into the whole. At Fintraffic, we actively work to accelerate developments in the traffic industry. The Traffic Data Ecosystem, which started over three years ago, already includes more than 200 organizations. Together, we collaborate on developing innovative data usage solutions and building a fair digital business environment. We’ve established fair rules for data sharing and collectively advanced data architecture, data models, and standardization within the industry. Our goals include improving the attractiveness and efficiency of public transportation and travel chains, streamlining logistics, boosting the domestic market, expanding service exports, creating new business models and services, and reducing emissions,” Fintraffic’s Chief Ecosystem and Technology Officer Janne Lautanala says.
The Data Spaces Alliance Finland network was launched at the end of the Nordic Data Festival 2024 on 10 April. It brings together Finnish pioneers in the data business and provides its members with a unified view on the development of cross-organisational solutions.
The 22 founding members of the alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which creates a lightweight governance model for goal-oriented cooperation between the actors.
The founding members are:
1001 Lakes, Business Finland, CSC, DataSpace Europe, Fintraffic, Finnish Land Survey, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Headai, Kela, Loihde, MyData Global, Nokia, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), Platform of Trust, Siili Solutions, Sitra, SIX Mobile Work Machines, Smart City Innovation Cluster (SCIC), Struggle Creative, Technology Industries, TIEKE and VTT.
Members of the Alliance can be organisations that are key partners in Finnish data space projects (contributors) and organisations that enable Finnish data space projects through funding and resources (supporters). The target group of the alliance are companies and organisations that use or could use data spaces data in their business (users). For data space projects, the alliance offers support for growth and learning together and provides an efficient way to connect to pan-European networks.
The Alliance builds on proven cooperation models in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and other countries, as well as on lessons learned from Finnish data space initiatives in different sectors.
A new Sitra study was also published in conjunction with the Nordic Data Festival, which takes a closer look at the current state of Finnish data space initiatives and encourages cross-organisational cooperation in the data business.
For further information ragarding Fintraffic’s participation please contact: janne.lautanala(at)fintraffic.fi
For more information on the Data Spaces Alliance Finland network, contact Anssi Komulainen (anssi.komulainen@sitra.fi, +358 400 129 524).
A website for the network has been launched.
Photo: © Pyry Pietiläinen
