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finland-wg-day-march-2013-sustainability-memo
The OKF Finland Working Group Day (Tue 19th of March)
http://fi.okfnpad.org/working-group-day-march-2013
OPEN SUSTAINABILITY MEMO
Activities:
- Energy Hackathon preparations
- http://fi.okfnpad.org/sustainability-hackathon-2013
- Proposal: networking events before Hackathon
- Proposals for invited guests from abroad?
Mike Reynolds, founder of Earthship Biotecture
- Data sets? (open or not?)
- How to proceed with getting the data?
- Texts for the OKFFI application form for Working Groups
- Contacting people/organisations (relevant for Working Group / Hackathon)
- CO2 data related activities
- http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/21/carbon-dioxide-data-is-not-on-the-worlds-dashboard-says-hans-rosling/
- Home context / sustainable lifestyles
- Personal tracker, x amount of parameters
- Karthik tried to make this work out
- Quantified self
- Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus / Consumer Research Centre ( Veera Mustonen )
- Health tracking
- Dramaturgy of energy consumption
- gamification
- enabling behaviour change
- Institutional context
- Opening data
- Tilannekuva: Live ympäristötilinpitoa/ environmental monitoring
- Information systems. Who has the data, whos monitoring, which data is linked/interacting,
- Energy context (enabling renewable energy future)
- Getting rig of energy consumption peaks
- We need to understand cities and other complex systems in order for this to work
-Smart grid challenges
Discussion on the PURPOSE OF THE GROUP
-Data is valuable when it is used in meaningfull way. Many decisions concerning ecological sustainability is very data intensive and this groups mission is to enable good use of data.
-Possibilities to focus opening data, making good use of the data. The second maybe the most important. and there is a shift in the focus of OKFN in the second too.
- Group could bring new ideas like gamification and others to bring the message and the maybe needed behavioral change through.
- What are the important issues we wanna tackle? Energy efficiency, water scarcity, climate change... CO2 that is climate is in the agenda of OKFN this year.
-It is necessary to mix different kind of data to undestand e.g peoples conumption behaviour. Consumption is very socially bounded. There some kind of time-georgraphy of habits.
- Focusing in data is of prerequisite. matter we need.
-Focus is not just in visualizing, but is a powerfull tool to make sense of what's happening in the world.
- Random Hacks of Kindness, http://www.rhok.org/ . we could cotribute to these kind of events.
ACTIVITIES / PROJECTS
FOCUS 1: PERSONAL / DOMESTIC CONTEXT
- Organised open collaborative work sessions and organisation for "data based sustainability". One of the more important elements is coordination, helping enthusiasts connect and collaborate, and facilitate communication between energy data holders and enthusiasts, etc..
- as hackathons
- as long-term projects
- lecture series - to help with getting people to collaborate, but also to educate others (eg. public :)
- Listing / mapping the sources of available household energy data
- (Related) Themes to explore:
- Exploring gamification - introducing the issue of sustainable lifestyles through an open data-based application
- The psychology of energy consumption - individual, group and collective phenomena - what kind of data is needed?
FOCUS 2: ACCESS TO INSTITUTIONAL DATA
- Mapping information sources and information flows of sustainability-related data, between instituions, and ideally on the way to being public (or not public... :( )
- Motivation: data - i.e. knowledge about the state of the world in particular respects - is rather important for areas like ecological sustainability. But there exist many institutional bottlenecks to gaining access to data, that are invisible to the public.
Making the information flows visible would:
- make it easier for enthusiasts to get hold of data.
- make it easier for the public to see transparency problems, and thus put pressure on institutions to reduce/remove the bottlenecks.
FOCUS 3: (LIBRARY OF) OPENLY AVAILABLE SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES (open source clean tech)
DATA SETS
Data from Finnish Energy companies
- Companies
- Helsingin Energia
- Martti Hyvönen, martti.hyvonen (at) helen.fi (environmental director)
- Jukka Helin, jukka.helin (at) helen.fi (contact for hackathon)
- Elenia
- Lauri Anttila, lauri.anttila (at) elenia.fi (contact for hackathon)
- Fortum
- Suur-Savon Sähkö Oy (SSO Oy)
- Turun Energia
- Nordic Green Energy, http://www.nordicgreen.fi/
- Ekosähkö http://www.ekosahko.fi/
- Jyväskylän energia (lilli has visited them)
- List about energy companies: http://www.etusivu.info/Energia/
- Data sets
- Personal energy use data (API to this data)
- City CO2 / energy data
- Data set from Aalto University research
Statistics Finland : Jukka Hoffrén and his team
- household energy statistics (Jonna Hakala)
- greenhouse gas emissions etc.
LYNET - environmental research network
Own data collection:
- Open Energy Monitor - http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/emoncms
- Air Quality Egg - http://airqualityegg.com/
- Smart citizen effort ( like the air quality egg - based in Spain ) http://smartcitizen.me/en/
WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED? (people and organisations)
* Demos
* Motiva: Lilli can ask some people there who could be the right one, Pertti Koski (Mikko has talked once with him). Motiva has also knowledge about normalization of warmth usage.
* SYKE: juhani kettunen, yrjö sucksdorff
* Ilmatieteenlaitos (They have the weather condition data which can be used for normalizing warmth usage across Finland)
* Whole LYNET -network of environmental research institutes
Housing management companies
* Kuntaliitto (has municipal energy consumption + CO2 collected from 1994)
*Apartment housing associations
* HiQ Finland (involved in TEKES cleentech/MMEA, open data timeseries from energy, CO2, temperatures, contact Mikko Ruokojoki)
*Sitra
* Aalto University
- Researchers
- Sampsa Hyysalo - (Head of Doctoral School: Has active interest in energy related studies) sampsa.hyysalo@aalto.fi
- Nodus group - Tatu Marttila (Sustainability centric) tatu.marttila@aalto.fi
- Creative Sustainability Masters Degree Program - Tiina Laurila/Tatu Marttila tiina.laurila@aalto.fi (Possibilities of a Masters thesis with Open Data: Coming up with a design brief?)
Energy Company of Vaasa
* Viestintävirasto (Ficora) (they maybe have data from electricity companies about national usages)
* EIT ict labs helsinki node: marko turpeinen
* Siemens
- Markku Suvanto
- Statistics Finland: Jonna Hakala (household energy statistics)
* Vaisala
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Participants:
* Juha Huuskonen, jh (at) juhahuuskonen.fi, http://www.juhahuuskonen.fi
* Oona Colliander
* Karthikeya Acharya
* Lilli Linkola lilli.linkola(at)gmail.com
* Mikko Ruokojoki, mikko(at)ruokojoki.fi, mikko.ruokojoki(at)hiq.fi @mikruo
* Miska Knapek
* Jon Sundell (jon_sundell@hotmail.com)
* Satu Korhonen