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Arvosteltu teos: Menneisyyden rakentajat : teoriat historiantutkimuksessa / toimittaneet Matti O. Hannikainen, Mirkka Danielsbacka & Tuomas Tepora. [Helsinki] : Gaudeamus, 2018

Historian esitysmuodoista

Historian esitysmuodoist

EXPLAINING AN E-IDENTIFICATION FRAMEWORK IMPLEMENTATION USING DIALECTICS

This article analyses the challenges of implementing a new electronic identification (eID) framework in Finland. We employ the theoretical lens of dialectics to explain how two opposing forces in the form of public and private actors, the government and banks respectively, engaged in a process of resistance and acquiescence. By interviewing the key organizations from both sides, we identify the rationale of the conflict, mechanisms that have led and may lead to further conflict, and the outcome. The root cause of the problems with the framework include the conflicting goals of the government and banks: the regulators’ interests to create more competition in the market, generate cost savings, decrease the dependence on banks vs. the objectives of the banks to maintain the status quo. Moreover, the framework implementation practices, such as the hard enforcement strategy, an inherent infrastructuring mindset of the government and communication problems, have considerably contributed to further conflict development. As a result, divergent views on the framework architecture and the pricing models are the outcomes of the confrontation. Our findings emphasize the importance of strategic and operational coherence in the governance of a changing ecosystem with a proprietary banking platform playing a role in a national eID scheme

Glimpses of the future : Data policy, artificial intelligence and robotisation as enablers of wellbeing and economic success in Finland

Our society is moving into the 2020s in a situation where we are making more efficient use of services enabled by new technology to develop new services and business models in society and in business life. The 2020s is predicted to be a decade characterised by the clear breakthrough of artificial intelligence and robotisation in the same way as social media, cloud computing, smart phones, location and time independent working and digital services did in the 2010s. Finland has performed extremely well in international statistics in several fields of society. Finland's stability and security combined with high technology utilisation rate and education level provides an excellent platform for the creation and development of digital business. At the core of this development are citizens, businesses and data. The development of data policy and data management in a way that takes the different life situations of citizens into account is a unique innovation by global standards, and one which we believe will be a significant contributor to Finland’s success in the 2020s. In this big picture, trust plays a key role. This is a major issue that emerges in the context of the personal data processing of private citizens and customers, new business model and service development, making society more resilient, and in national and international cooperation. Trust requires continues development work in different sectors, paying due attention to the threats and risks affecting the digital environment. Here, digital security serves as the enabler of trust and of services made possible by new technology

Pilkahduksia tulevaisuuteen – digitalisaation ja robotisaation mahdollisuudet

Olemme siirtymässä kiihtyvää vauhtia teknologiassa ICT-aikakaudesta uudenlaiseen yhteiskuntaan, jossa keinoäly ja ja robotiikka tarjoavat huimia uusia mahdollisuuksia koko kansakunnan palveluiden toteuttamiseen. Tässä muutoksessa keskiössä on asiakas, eli kansalainen – ei teknologi

Pilkahduksia tulevaisuuteen. Tietopolitiikka, tekoäly ja robotisaatio hyvinvoinnin ja taloudellisen menestyksen mahdollistajana Suomessa

Yhteiskuntamme on siirtymässä 2020-luvulle tilanteessa, jossa olemme entisestään hyödyntämässä uuden teknologian tarjoamia palveluita niin yhteiskunnan kuin elinkeinoelämän osalta uudenlaisten palveluiden ja liiketoimintamallien kehittämisessä. Ennakolta 2020-lukua arvioidaan vuosikymmeneksi, jolloin tekoälyn ja robotisaation uskotaan tekevän selkeän läpimurron samalla tavalla mitä 2010-luvulla esimerkiksi sosiaalinen media, pilvipalvelut, älypuhelimet, ajasta ja paikasta riippumaton työskentely sekä yleensä digitaalisten palveluiden hyödyntäminen. Suomi on menestynyt loistavasti erilaisissa kansainvälisissä tilastoissa useilla eri yhteiskunnan osa-alueilla. Suomen vakaus ja turvallisuus yhdistettynä teknologian korkeaan hyödyntämisasteeseen ja koulutustasoon luo meistä erinomaisen alustan digitaalisen liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen ja tuottamiseen. Tämän kaiken kehityksen keskiössä ovat niin kansalaiset ja yritykset kuin tieto, data. Tietopolitiikan ja tiedonhallinnan kehittäminen kansalaisten elämäntilanteet huomioiden on globaalisti varsin ainutkertainen innovaatio, jonka uskomme olevan eräs merkittävä tekijä mahdollistaessamme Suomen menestystä myös 2020-luvulla. Tässä kokonaisuudessa luottamuksella on keskeinen merkitys. Se nousee esille niin kansalaisten kuin yritysten, asiakkaiden näkökulmasta heidän henkilötietojen käsittelyssä, uusien palveluiden ja liiketoimintamallien kehittämisessä, yhteiskunnan sietokyvyn kehittämisessä erilaisia häiriötilanteita varten ja kansallisessa sekä kansainvälisessä yhteistyössä. Luottamus edellyttää turvallisuuden eri osa-alueiden jatkuvaa kehittämistä digitaaliseen toimintaympäristöön kohdistuvat uhat ja riskit huomioiden. Tässä digitaalinen turvallisuus toimii niin luottamuksen kuin uuden teknologian mahdollistamien palveluiden mahdollistajana

Media Conscious Understanding of Historical Popular Culture

This article focuses on popular historical culture, particularly on how the use of digital mediahas changed our engagements with historical culture. Popular historical culture is discussed asa cultural phenomenon that is present across all media. Because of the digitalization of media,cultural practices related to history have fragmented, and historical culture is engaged with ina variety of ways. These engagements can take widely different forms depending on the mediaused. In this article I argue that a more media cognizant understanding of historical culture needsto be developed. This is necessary because digitalized media has changed our dealings withhistorical knowledge, and remediation is constantly challenging our perception of how “reality”can be properly represented. In the paper, I discuss how theoretical works related to historical culture have a slightlytroubled relation to digital media, and do not properly take into account how media content isconsumed today. I argue that the source of these troubles is at least partially the hegemony ofmemory-related theory in the scholarly understanding of historical culture. The current scholarlydiscussion of historical culture mainly lacks understanding of how popular media functions andis engaged in the digital age. For this reason, central aspects of digitally mediated historicalculture do not receive enough scholarly interest. In the article, I employ a framework based on media studies for understanding popularhistorical culture. By doing so, I distance my analysis from discussions related to memoryand begin to develop a view, in which instantiations of popular historical culture are seen asconverging media that people engage with in hopes of gaining more knowledge about the past.Here, different instantiations of popular historical culture are seen as entry-points to morehistory-related content, rather than as competing holistic representations. This leads to analternative knowledge-centered interpretation of why popular historical culture is engaged with

Transmedia history

Abstract In this paper, I argue that history is a large-scale transmedia project that is not understood as such, and this causes friction when history is engaged with through media in which historical research is not usually presented. To do this, I go through Henry Jenkins’ ten-step definition of transmedia and argue that history matches the definition very well. This transmedia discussion brings forth the concept of ‘world-building’, in which narrative is superseded by world-building as the all-encompassing concept and as the beginning point of analysis. In the analysis, history (as a product of historiography) is treated as phenomenon instead of a discipline and compared to other forms of transmedia world-building

The development of the Finnish banking industry from a partnership perspective

Abstract The focal study initially describes the development of the banking industry in Finland, then analyses the development of banking partnerships, and concludes by applying the findings about partnership development to the banking industry in order to increase our understanding of the industry development, especially of the development of the nature and structure of a typical banking firm. In this study, banking partnerships and co-operation is the perspective from which industry development is studied. The study constructs a framework of reasons for entering partnerships from three theoretical views. The partnership-specific view explains the reasons based on the benefits that a partnership may produce for a bank. Industry-specific view explains the reasons based on the banking industry paradigm, i.e. what are the general banking logic features that could explain the change in partnership entering reasons and how those features have developed. The external view explains the reasons from the environmental level, specifically environmental attribute and changes that can stimulate partnership entry. Examining partnership entry reasons through these three-levels and the different emphasis of each view improves both the theoretical understanding of the reasons banks enter partnerships as well as our understanding of the development of banking industry. The development of the vertically integrated banking model towards a more core-competence specialised one describes the development of banking logic. In the continuum of the logic in Finland, the focus of customer service on core competences places the customer service at the centre of the integration of business functions and disciplines. On the other hand, the growing need for economies of scale does not allow a domestic or regional bank to maintain a great deal of the existing proprietary manufacturing. This means that an entire service can and has to be manufactured outside the bank's own hierarchy. The production of banking services are transforming from the traditional proprietary manufacturing model to a three-levelled model. A great part of the existing production will be outsourced because of the increasing need for scale of economies. In other words, economies of scale will be purchased instead of proprietary manufacturing. The second level is formed by such banking services that have certain needs for the economies of scale, but in addition, qualities like flexibility are important factors in the production. The need of scale forces domestic and regional banks to move the manufacturing outside of the focal bank, but the need of qualities highlights partnership-like needs in the selection of the producer. The third level is the "manufacturing" of tacit personal services, in which the economies of scale is absent. For Finnish banks, this layer forms the core of their proprietary operation