What have the issues covered?
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When a vendor cannot be switched, procurement law has already failed
In most Finnish public systems, switching vendors is impossible. Four cities built eVaka for 9 million euros; Helsinki spent 32 million on an unfinished Asti.
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Does Finland benefit from data centres?
Finland has 44 data centres using about 2 per cent of its electricity. The electricity tax rose to class I on 1 July 2026. The numbers, Ireland, permitting.
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264 billion reasons to rethink public IT
The EU spends about EUR 264 billion a year on closed software. Vendor lock-in kills the price signal that open source and portability in law restore.
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How IKEA avoided layoffs, and made a billion
IKEA AI bot Billy handles 57% of customer chats. Instead of layoffs, IKEA retrained staff as design consultants and added nearly EUR 1 billion in revenue.
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When AI development is unstoppable, what do we do?
AI development can no longer be contained: AI adoption in Finnish companies grew 13.5 percentage points in one year. Three actions for Finland to take the lead.
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Age limits for social media, but how would they actually work?
Privacy-preserving age verification is solvable with the eIDAS digital wallet due by the end of 2026. An age limit still does not remove addictive design.
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AI takes my code, what is left?
AI writes code faster and cheaper than people: in two minutes what used to take two weeks. What remains for developers is judgement, context and responsibility.
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AI is not taking your job, but it is changing it
AI is not replacing professionals, but it is changing how work is structured. The OECD puts 27 per cent of expert roles under pressure. A management question.
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