Category: TIEKE

In the ICT sector, sustainability is becoming increasingly important. The Finnish Information Society Development Centre (TIEKE) has been contributing to this development for a long time, and has created a wide range of tools for companies and other actors to use in making their operations more environmentally friendly. These are all provided in the Green ICT portal, and the new Visiiri project also brings together long experience and the latest expertise, deepening it further.

Energy consumption in ICT is growing faster than in any other sector, and there is a need for more debate on the sector’s climate and environmental impact, how to measure it and how to save energy. To this end, the Green ICT Visiiri project will expand the previously established Green ICT ecosystem in the Uusimaa region into a national ecosystem. Companies throughout Finland can now get involved in and benefit from this development! Increased energy efficiency has many positive effects, both on the climate and on a company’s operations.

Many kinds of personal data, such as names, personal identity codes, addresses, allergy information, bank account numbers, dates of birth, photographs and videos are processed in hobby activities. Personal data cannot usually be stored indefinitely. Instead, a specific storage period must be defined for them, and the data must be erased when that period has elapsed. As a rule, personal data may only be stored for as long as necessary. Read the article for tips on the storage of personal data.

Has your child recently started a new hobby, and are you wondering why the club is asking for your child’s contact details or health information? Are you wondering how the club is processing the data you disclose to it? This article discusses typical situations related to the processing of personal data in hobbies and tells parents how they can obtain information on personal data processing from hobby organisers.

Based on the initial survey of the GDPR4CHLDRN – ensuring data protection in hobbies project, people have questions about the processing of children’s health data, especially data on allergies, in hobby activities. This article is meant to provide some guidelines for the appropriate processing of children’s health data in hobby activities.

Many organisations are working to improve children’s awareness of personal data processing and data protection legislation. For this GDPR4CHLDRN blog post, we compiled some useful websites we have come across during the project. These sites offer teaching, guidance and independent study materials for promoting data protection awareness in children and young people.

A former and current chairman of TIEKE’s Board of Directors see that international networks are what we need to most effectively build a competitive and people-oriented digital society.

The Ministry of Finance has chosen TIEKE as a partner in a government programme project to set national policies for the development of programming interfaces.