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Justice

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What If Mobility Became the Symbol of the Future Once Again?

One hundred years ago, Henry Ford introduced the Ford Model T to middle-class Americans. The car revolutionized the whole transportation industry and became the symbol of modernization, freedom and prosperity for the growing middle classes. Currently, there is an ongoing mobility transformation, but it lacks a promise and symbolism. Mobility…

Publications

Changing the Default in Proteins

This report, created in collaboration with the EU Horizon-funded LIKE-A-PRO project and over 50 food experts across sectors and regions, underscores the urgent need to change the default protein production and consumption within the next two decades.

An assessment framework for non-discriminatory AI

AI systems can have a positive impact, but at the same time, biased algorithmic decision-making poses threats to equality and non-discrimination. Demos Helsinki conducted an assessment framework and a policy brief that would assist developers to establish an equitable journey for the development of AI services in the public sector, from design to deployment.

Housing First: A new systems perspective to ending homelessness

Achieving an impactful decrease in homelessness — and preventing it from happening in the first place — requires significant structural and operational changes. While Housing First holds great potential to enable systemic change in homelessness, it also risks being interpreted and deployed as a mere housing management tool — a misunderstanding of tragic consequences.

Projects

A new strategy for the University of the Arts Helsinki

Demos Helsinki is a well-seasoned partner for universities. In 2019, the University of the Arts Helsinki created a strategy for the next ten years. To support the strategy, Demos Helsinki looked into how the most significant societal phenomena shape the operational environment of the university, arts and society in the…

BIBU – Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation

The future of democracy relies on updating our institutions and processes to meet our global challenges. BIBU, Tackling Biases and Bubbles in Participation, explored how global transitions are reshaping citizenship and political decision-making in Finland. The current global transitions involving globalisation, economic restructuring, urbanisation and migration, are challenging democratic systems….

Code of Conduct – National Ethical Code of Conduct for Societal Experiments

Many different kinds of societal experiments are being conducted in Finland. Working towards establishing a culture of experiments is among the top projects in the current government programme (2015). This also explains the rise in the number of experiments. Experiments can produce important and uniquely beneficial information to support societal…

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