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Experimental Finland- Making it happen?

Syke/PPO, 12th October 2016 I Annukka Berg

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1. innovative solutions and improvements in services

2. the promotion of individual initiative and entrepreneurship

3. strengthening of regional and local decision-making and cooperation & making use of citizen-driven operating practices

4. improving foresight capacity and solving social problems

Government Programme: Goals


1. Extensive trials and several smaller experiments

2. Legal basis to make the arrangement of experiments easier

Government Programme : means

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Grassroots level experiments

accelerated to develop better

solutions.

Complicated issues divided into

manageable and monitorable experiments.Well tested,

half done!

Experimental Culture: top-down & bottom-up


• (The promotion of) experimentation a political goal in its own right• ”A culture of experimentation will be

introduced” (PMO 2016)

• Combines transition thinking (cf. The Netherlands) with policy trial tradition (cf. The Anglo-American countries, China)

The Finnish Model?


• What can be expected from experimenting?

• What kind of experimental setting/method is suitable for a given case?

• Politics of experimentation

Experimentation as a political goal: key questions


Knowledge production• Does a new planned

measure work (if not, why not?) • What are the expected

results and impacts? • Objective: high quality

information for decision-making

Policy trials and experiments can be implemented for various reasons (Annala et al. 2016)

Changing thinking and behaviour • How does the proposed measure

change the way people think and act?

• Objective: a broader change within the target group

• Means: empowering and involving people

Expanding the impact • How to expand the positive

impact?• Objective: scaling up of

what works • Means: resources (funding,

networks, knowledge, information)

Structural change • What does the lesson learnt

imply for our current system? • Objective: improving

legislation, business models, working culture

• Means: challenging, inviting in


The Triangle Model of Experimental Governance

(Laakso, Berg & Annala, 2016)


The fourfold table of experiments

HOW?

AccurateExplorative

”Small

”Big”WHAT?

Making it happen – in practice


NATIONAL OBJECTIVES• Finland a forerunner for experimental

culture• New solutions and business ideas to

develop society discovered through experiments

• Deregulation and removing of obstacles of successful experiments

Experimental Culture Into Use: Objectives for Concrete Actions and Measures

Strategic actions and measures

open opportunities for smaller scale

local and regional

experiments.

Best results from local and regional

experiments utilised to test on a larger scale

LOCAL AND REGIONAL OBJECTIVES• New local and regional solutions

with potential for scaling up• Citizens and communities get

involved in experiments


The Experimental Finland Team


1) Gathering, producing and spreading knowledge

A web-based toolbox, seminars and workshops, VN-TEAS research projects

2) Networking

Cross-ministerial working group, ”Kokeilukummit”; co-operation projects with e.g. the polytechnics

The practical work(1/2)


3) Creating support structures

A digital development platform for crowdsourcing, accelerating and communicating

Code of conduct

Parliamentary advisory group

4) Supporting the implementation of strategic experiments

The practical work (2/2)


Digital platform for experiments• We need a tool for

• Funding small experiments

• Enabling crowdsourcing of resources

• Enable sharing of LESSONS learned (“OPPI”)

• Enable accelerating good solutions (“KIIHDYTTÄMÖ”), copying and SCALING UP (“SKAALAUS”) of what works


• Basic income experiment to be implemented in 2017–2018 • Goal: To obtain information on the effects of basic income on the employment of persons

participating in the experiment, and to survey other impacts of basic income.

• Level of basic income: EUR 560 €/month, tax free benefit. According to calculations, this should produce an adequate incentive effect encouraging to accept temporary and part-time work.

• Target group: Persons between 25 and 58 years of age living in Finland who in November 2016 receive basic daily allowance or labour market support under the Unemployment Security Act.

(More information on the on-going study on the subject, supporting the planning phase: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-basic-income)

Basic Income Experiment in a nutshell

http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-basic-income

http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-basic-income


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• Behavioral science in policy design 26.10.2016 klo 13-16, Tieteiden talo, Hki

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Well tested – half done


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