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We have implemented Helsinki's OmaStadi participation platform and the Decidim software extensions related to this platform. The OmaStadi service has been used to implement the biyearly participatory budgeting process in Helsinki since 2018.

We have developed and implented a digital participation system for Tuusula in 2018 and improved the system after its launch. For example, we have implemented a user testing session with Tuusula in order to identify and fix several problems with the system from the users' point of view.

In 2020, we helped Turku to implemet its first participatory budgeting process under the name Resident Budget. During the cooperation with Turku we have implemented several additional features to the Decidim core software and improved the Decidim’s accessibility greatly.

Tampere researched few digital platforms for implementing participatory budgeting within the city and after consideration, also ended up with the Decidim platform used in many other Finnish municipalities. The platform was launched early 2020 and during that year, the first participatory budgeting process was hosted on the platform. Since, the platform has expanded also to other use cases, such as participative strategy work.

We started working with Riihimäki in late 2019 and implemented a Decidim-based platform to support the participatory budgeting process. The platform was launched soon after and has been successfully running the participatory budgeting processes for the city since then.

In the beginning of 2021 Oulu launched its participation platform in collabration with us. The main idea was to build a centralized platform for all digital citizenship participation tools. During 2021, the platform was used for the first participatory budgeting process and it has been also used for internal participation needs within the city.

Seinäjoki renewed their participation model in 2020 which seeks to make the city active and communal, gives citizens the opportunity to impact the cityscape, streamlines the services and emphasizes the interaction between citizens and decision-makers. Decidim supports all these participation principles and provides a toolkit for the city to make these principles reality, for example through participative budgeting.

Siilinjärvi decided to be the first brave municipality in North Savo area to organize a participatory budgeting experimental in 2023 as part of the Sitra Lab transformation initiative, with the goal of creating new methods of influencing and making choices. Mainio Tech was chosen to implement a digital participation platform to support the participatory budgeting process.

Helsinki Experimentation Accelerator

The City of Helsinki develops their internal innovation activity through the Experimentation Accelerator program (Kokeilukiihdyttämö in Finnish). This program consists of yearly innovation campaigns around some topic that may help Helsinki in its internal processes, work efficiency and work-life quality.