Book release: Towards Peer-production in Public Services: cases from Finland

Posted on June 1, 2012 by cop2p

We are happy to announce that the book is ready and looking nice. The PDF of the book can be freely downloaded from :

1) This website you are visiting (p2p-public-services-finland-2012) (PDF 1.9MG)

2) From the online bookstore of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, by visiting this link.

We will also made it available in other places, as soon as we get time to do it. Meanwhile we are celebrating the launch with a 2 week long Facebook party, join us!

Book cover

Thanks for all the authors for their hard work and for sharing with us their thoughts and ideas on the topic. We are also grateful for our graphic designer Anssi Kokkonen who cope with us in the last weeks and made a magnificent job. The nice people at Aalto ARTS publications (Especially Sanna Tyyri-Pohjonen) should also be thanked for helping out with the process and all the details. With out the financial support of Aalto Service Factory there would have been no book.

Andrea, Andrew & Joanna

PS: Thanks also to our first avid readers for pointing out typos and to Heikki for helping fixing them :)

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Towards peer production in public services: Cases from Finland – Pre release teaser

Posted on May 23, 2012 by cop2p
The book is almost ready and we think is taking a nice shape. Our release day is the 31st of May so please come later to download your free copy. For now we would like to invite you all to take a peep in to the Table of Contents and Introduction of the publication.
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Cover

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” There are many challenges  and opportunities in designing, developing and maintaining services for participatory modes of governance, not to mention their co-creation and peer-to-peer aspects. We ask what can be learned from current research, and what is happening already beyond academia? With the aim to increase the opportunities for dialogue between the Finnish scene and the international context, we gather this collection of articles that deal broadly with the relationships between peer-to-peer dynamics, and public services. Most of the cases presented are illustrative of recent developments and discussions in Finnish society, however, also included are broader international perspectives, giving historical reflection and future-oriented speculation on what might be the outcomes.”
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A publication in the making

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Andrea Botero

We have been busy with all sorts of things and forgot to advertise that we are working on a ‘Towards Peer-production of (public) Services’ publication following the 2010 Seminar.

Our aim is to make an electronic publication, and made it widely available for free and with an appropriate license to let it fly!  There will be approximately 10 articles and it includes many of the seminar cases, but also a few new. The target are not only researchers working around this topics, also professionals in service-design, socially-engaged processes, cultural production and public service management. Everything from enthusiastic individuals to people interested in knowing more located in small to large institutions.

Our first drafts should come in on Friday 17th February and the final publication released in May. Stay tuned!!

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Upcoming and related events

Posted on November 11, 2010 by cop2p

Coprodnet, an interdisciplinary academic research network on
co-production, organized the Co-production: big idea for the ‘big
society’? conference in the Manchester Business School on 4 November,
2010. Find more information at the conference website.

The UnConference, with the focus on “co-production as an opportunity
to improve public services and create new working opportunities in
time of crisis” will be held in Milan, Italy on 15 November 2010.
The UnConference webpage holds more information.

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Documentation of the cop2p 2010 seminar available

Posted on November 9, 2010 by cop2p

The Seminar 2010 page has been updated and the documentation of the “Co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services” seminar 2010, including the videos of the keynote speakers, case presentations and discussions as well as the presentation slides, can be found there.

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There is life after the seminar: Thank you!

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Andrea Botero

The Seminar Co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services was very successful! We had close to 100 participants in Sampo Hall and thought we dont know yet the exact number of those following the live video stream, we know at least of a handful of people commenting on twitter and qaiku that where not here so it must have been also crowded there.


Participants came mostly came from within Aalto community, as our main aim was to stir the conversation and explore new avenues for research and cooperation. In adition we also had representatives from the city, other governmental institutions, NGO’s, companies, civil society and researchers form other institutions. Thank you all for the good discussions, suggestions and inspiring presentations.

In the next few weeks we will be updating the program section to include links to the presentations and videos of the seminar. Keep tuned!

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Almost there! online videostreaming, twitter and qaiku and the rest for the seminar

Posted on October 21, 2010 by cop2p

We are very happy with the number of registrations and interest created by the seminar. It seems the topic is very timely and the issues relevant and interesting not only with in Aalto University but also abroad.

For those of you unable to attend physically, we will be providing online streaming video of the presentations (YEAH). So point your browsers to this direction at about 9:15 am Helsinki time and join us.

http://lume.fi/lumelive.nsf/live_pick/sampolive

Some presenters are not totally sure they will like their interventions to be streamed so we might turn the signal off a couple of times, but for most we think we will be online all the time.

We also want to document thoughts and ideas collaboratively online

1) If you (here or online) are using twitter please use the hashtag #cop2p for your posts. So we gather them all here http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23cop2p
2) There will also be a thread in the seminar channel of Qaiku here: http://www.qaiku.com/channels/show/seminaarikannu/

CU soon!

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Online registration for the seminar is open

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Andrea Botero

Online registration for the seminar is open. Please follow the link to our Online form and complete your information.

We are expecting an interesting day full of inspiring presentations and good discussions.

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Program of the seminar for 22.10 is now more defined!

Posted on September 28, 2010 by cop2p

We have updated the program of 2010 seminar finally. Our main speakers Professor Susanne Bødker from Aarhus University and Professor Victor Pestoff have confirmed their participation as well as numerous interesting cases and experimentations that are happening around Finland on the topics of the seminar. Reserve the date in your calendars: 22 of October starting at 9:00 with some coffee ;)

Online registration will open soon!

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Hello world!

Posted on September 17, 2010 by cop2p

Welcome! This is our first post. Learn more about why this special interest group (SIG) exists in the About section and who we are in the Members section. We are planning a seminar on 22.10 to start, you are invited! Please check the program in the Seminar 2010 section.

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