Helsinki City employees are experimenting with the Microsoft Copilot artificial intelligence tool to assess its potential for bringing operational efficiencies.
A group of City of Helsinki employees are experimenting with the use of the new Microsoft Copilot artificial intelligence (AI) tool.
The City said Copilot trial aims to develop the general competence and understanding regarding AI among the city’s employees as well as support the use of AI.
Read more: FI: City of Helsinki employees experiment with the use of AI
Helsinki regularly appears in the top ranking of the world’s “most liveable cities", and that is due to the innovative approach of the City's residents, private companies, universities and government to embracing new ideas.
Now, the City of Helsinki seeks to lead the way in using data and AI and aims to show the way for other cities worldwide.
Smart cities will be able to create their own interoperable digital identities for residents, thanks to approaches developed by cybersecurity services firm Nixu via a partnership with Ioxio, a digital services and solutions provider, the firms announced last month.
The first application of this collaboration manifested in a trusted data-sharing pilot in Jyväskylä, Finland, in June.
Read more: FI: Embedding digital identity in the Jyväskylä Smart City Project
The Finnish city used Tampere Smart City Expo to showcase how it aims to combine the digital and physical worlds to enhance the lives of city dwellers.
The Finnish city of Tampere is inviting companies to test their smart city solutions as it takes its first steps to becoming “a human-centric metaverse city”.
Read more: FI: Tampere bids to become pioneering metaverse city
Anni Sinnemäki, Helsinki’s deputy mayor for the urban environment, provides expert insight into the Finnish city’s journey towards a more sustainable and seamless transport system.
There has arguably never been a more important time to assess the role of mobility within urban spaces. Global ambitions to phase out reliance on fossil fuels has driven key decision-makers to reassess the ways in which inhabitants of the built environment can move about their cities on a daily basis. Simultaneously, the Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the make-up of our cities, with many relocating to more suburban areas, driving the demand to have appropriate transportation networks into cities as well as around.
Read more: FI: Helsinki’s journey to becoming a 15-minute city