HRI Loves Developers
Collaboration with current and future open data users is important to us. We work closely with universities, for example, and organise regular events where city experts and data users can share experiences and insights.
HRI Loves Developers events
HRI organises HRI Loves Developers events 4-5 times a year. The events are open to the public and open to all. From 2020 onwards, the events will be held mainly remotely on Teams. The events are usually held in Finnish.
Each event has a different theme and features open data related to the theme and examples of its use. The events also provide an opportunity for discussion. In recent years, events have been organised on topics such as artificial intelligence, winter maintenance, climate change adaptation and the digital twin.
In addition to the HRI website, information on upcoming events can be found on the HRI’s social media channels and in the newsletter.
We welcome your suggestions and ideas for event themes. It is also possible to organise an event on the themes of a newly planned data opening and to gather feedback and ideas from those interested in data.
Cooperation with educational institutions and schools
Institutional cooperation
In autumn 2017, HRI presented Metropolia students with a real-life problem and open data to solve it as a course assignment (in Finnish). Nine teams built their own mobile apps to help Helsinki residents moving from one level of education to the next.
HRI works with universities and colleges in the Helsinki Metropolitan region. Lectures and courses have been held with the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Haaga-Helia, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, among others.
In its simplest form, a teaching partnership could be a one-and-a-half hour expert lecture on open data. At the other end of the spectrum, HRI can bring students to a large-scale project course to solve a problem facing cities in the Helsinki Metropolitan area and provide them with the data they need to solve it.
Business cooperation and hackathons
Businesses and application developers use open data for a variety of analytics and applications. HRI is involved in hackathons and the GeoForum Summit, and also promotes the commercial exploitation of open data in the Metropolitan area.
In 2014-17, the six largets cities in Finland (Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku and Oulu) ran an Open Data and Interfaces project to accelerate the opening up of their data. The project’s website databusiness.fi (closed in spring 2021) highlighted data-driven business activities and provided ideas on how to apply data.
