Building trust in data ecosystems
We empower your business to generate distinctive value through data collaborations, unlocking their full potential for innovation and competitive advantage. We do this through our unique combination of business, legal, technical and ethical expertise.
What we Do
Trustful data ecosystems
We specialize in data ecosystem facilitation, enabling secure and efficient data management and sharing. As experts in developing, implementing, and operating data spaces, we secure your data space is built on solid foundations.
With us, your data ecosystem thrives with our comprehensive expertise in business, ethics, law, technology, and security, ensuring its success and growth.
Business
We help you gain a competitive edge by harnessing the power of data ecosystems, unlocking collaborative insights, and driving innovation.
Legal
Our guidance helps you navigate complex data regulations and to define legal agreements for your ecosystem, enabling compliant and innovative solutions.
Security
We stress the importance of data security and privacy in establishing trust-based data sharing networks.
Ethical
Responsibility is the corner stone of trust – as experts in digital ethics, we embrace responsible data governance and use.
Technical
Our experts have a deep understanding of the cutting-edge technology required to operate efficient and trustworthy data ecosystems.
Your custom data ecosystem
Data ecosystem rulebook
We create custom rulebooks for data ecosystems based on the Sitra Fair Data Economy Rulebook model. With our expertise and support, you can navigate the process of developing a trust-based rulebook that encompasses Business, Ethics, Legal, Tech, and Security dimensions. Benefit from our rulebook content experience, learn how to apply the Sitra Rulebook model effectively and gain insights into the rulebook development process. With our tools and guidance, we create a custom data ecosystem rulebook that meets your unique requirements, while promoting trust, compliance, and effective data sharing.
Common rules and policies play a crucial part in implementing trusted data spaces
Our rulebook approach allows for data collaboration within and across ecosystems
International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) has endorsed our rulebook approach
Example rulebook implementations
- Mobility: Traffic data ecosystem
- Smart cities: MyData rulebook for cities
- Manufacturing: Digital twins for industrial internet campus
- Health: Children hospitals across Europe
- Banking and insurance: Export documentation
- Agriculture: Data-driven grain chain
- Data sharing testbed: Virtual Finland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Data sharing network of trusted partners
Data space building
Data spaces are collaborative networks where trusted partners uphold high standards for data sharing. Participants include data providers, data users, and intermediaries, each playing a crucial role. Data sovereignty empowers data providers to control policies for data usage.
By establishing data spaces, organizations foster secure collaboration, unlocking the potential of data-driven insights and driving growth.
Configuration and execution of data policies
Data domains, storage & pipelines
Access & identity management
Metadata, data quality management, observability, lineage
Based on data space blueprints and components (IDS, Gaia-X, DSSC, EDC)
Your data and AI strategy
Data consulting
Our data consulting service enables organizations to optimize and leverage data within their ecosystems, driving collaboration, innovation, and data-driven decision-making. It includes developing data and AI strategies aligned with business goals, mapping data sources and stakeholders, establishing robust data governance frameworks, facilitating secure data sharing and collaboration, identifying data monetization opportunities, enabling relevant technologies, and driving organizational change.
Find your most promising use cases.
Sharpen the business logic on how to create value from data and AI.
Turn regulation and legal frameworks into your business advantage.
Reference projects
We have a broad portfolio of projects with industry and public sector.
Digital product passport
Finnish textile and fashion industry
- Upcoming EU´s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) sets new information and performance data requirements for products. Product data is required to be in a digital form and available as Digital Product Passport (DPP).
- There is a limited understanding of data requirements or applicable solutions, and the quality of available data is often not at the desired level. Existing contracts and reporting capabilities do not support data collection necessary in complex value chains.
- We made a pre-study of DPP requirements and implementation options with requirement framework, implications and timeline. We also defined the scope, targets and actions for DPP implementation and identified the related data ecosystem.
- We created a roadmap with clear next steps on how to move forward and increase DPP implementation capabilities incrementally.
- We built a live demo of a digital product passport with real data that helped the companies to understand and test data gathering with a concrete implementation.
Circular economy business
Motiva material marketplace
- Materiaalitori (i.e. Material Marketplace) promotes the utilization of waste, side streams and surplus materials as well as reusable parts. The service is owned by the Ministry of the Environment of Finland and operated by Motiva Oy.
- Materiaalitori acts both as a compulsory service for waste management and as a place where providers and users of circular materials can find each other.
- Materiaalitori is one component of a larger circular economy puzzle, where there is a disconnect between supply and demand for circular economy.
- We helped Motiva to identify the current demand for the service, key parameters impacting its use and challenges in the underlying circularity market logic in general.
- We defined a set of service concepts for solving the key challenges, including assessment of the costs, benefits and business cases, as well as validating these concepts with key stakeholders.
- We developed a recommendation and implementation roadmap for both Materiaalitori and the underlying activation of the circular economy in construction industry.
Agricultural data flows
Potato-X
- Potato farming yield can be significantly improved by efficiently using potato farming machinery data.
- Potato-X project created a commercially driven pilot service that realizes the value of data sharing for farmer, data infrastructure operators and agricultural machinery companies.
- The project was a strong EU-level showcase implementing automated smart contracts between parties, and connecting two data intermediation services, i.e. Tritom in Finland and DJustConnect in Belgium
- The Potato-X rulebook defines the governance model and provides the basis for necessary data usage policies.
- The project demosntrates how EU’s Data Act (DA) and Data Governance Act (DGA) can be put in practice.
- Project was financially supported by The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, and our partners were ILVO (BE), AVR (BE) and DataSpace Europe (FI).
Agrifood value capture using data spaces
Premium grain chain
- We foster the creation of new sustainable business thinking for the agrifood sector based on an open ecosystem for premium grain chain concept that emphasizes holistic member value creation rather than individual interests and desires based on efficient data sharing.
- Three use cases: (1) Carbon footprint calculation using production process (PA) data. (2) Traceability of grain sales lots down to fields. (3) Data sharing within a farmers’ group to prepare common grain sales.
- We apply the Sitra Fair Data Economy Rulebook model for the Premium Grain Chain use case to create an agrifood-specific rulebook. We develop and test our solutions in the context of the AgriFood Data Space Finland initiative, and in connection with the Business Finland Co-Research project OurData and EU-funded project Data4Food2030.
- Advantages for clients: (1) Farmers can leverage their data as a community (our data) and seek market power and product market value through data-driven collaboration. (2) Food processing industry can verify market claims based on data and increase the market value of their products. (3) Agricultural machinery and tech solution providers become can operate in and exploit the data space environments to their business benefits.
Healthcare data ecosystem
European Children’s Hospitals Organisations
- Data related to pediatric healthcare in Europe is currently underused: it exists only in small numers at a given location and there are many different locations who currently cannot share that data for legal and technical reasons.
- Data in the ecosystem could be used for clinical and other research, operations management and improvement, and better patient care.
- Heterogeneneity of national legislation and data infrastructures prevents efficient patient data sharing.
- Use case #1: Understanding, comparing, and improving operational processes related to pediatric cardiac surgery in participating hospitals.
- Use case #2: Data sharing of patient data for research collaboration and improved patient care.
- Applying the data ecosystem rulebook approach for data collaboration helped to reduce costs and risks and involved in data collaboration.
- ECHO network coordinator HUS (Helsinki University Hospital) has taken the results into practice.
Citizen data governance model
MyData for cities
- My Data is a principle by which people can manage their own data. The goal is to empower people to take better control of their personal data by offering them the possibility to determine the circumstances in which it is used.
- MyData principles were evaluated and practiced in the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Turku and Oulu. The aim was to improve the flow of data among different city services and improve the cities’ digital capacities. All four cities became aware of the benefits of MyData and are now committed to improve their city services according to MyData principles.
- Demo services in Helsinki allowed the city’s residents to experiment with managing, utilising and giving permission to disclose their personal data. The service expands on Helsinki’s digital strategy, which emphasises the customer-centred, agile, and transparent use of data.
- We developed a MyData for Cities rulebook to guide in the use of data in the service provision ecosystem consisting of the city, its fully or partially owned legal entities and other organisations.
- Smart use of MyData has the potential to improve digital skills and enhance general trust and transparency. This has benefits for both city residents and society as a whole.
Our EU projects
We also participate actively in European projects.
Our team
Get to know our knowledgeable and capable people!
You can reach everyone at firstname.lastname@1001lakes.com
Marko Turpeinen
Dr. Marko Turpeinen is a visionary leader with 25+ years of experience in digital transformation and innovation, having worked at prestigious institutions like MIT Media Lab and EIT Digital, and initiating the global MyData movement at Aalto University.
Sami Jokela
CTO
Dr. Sami Jokela is a seasoned leader with 20+ years of experience in data, technology, and strategy, including roles at Nokia, co-founding startups, and leading Accenture’s technology and information insight practices.
Olli Pitkänen
CLO
Dr. Olli Pitkänen is a knowledgeable professional with extensive experience in ICT and law, leading multidisciplinary projects and providing expertise in legal aspects of ICT, IPRs, privacy, and data as a founder of an IT law firm and advisor to companies and the Finnish government.
Udo Bub
Chief Product & Strategy Officer
Dr. Udo Bub has been a driver of digital innovation for 25+ years, especially in AI, Data, and Cloud businesses. He was co-founder and senior executive of high impact organizations such as Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and EIT Digital. He is the founding Director of the IAI institute at the University of Budapest (ELTE) where he also holds a professorship of information systems and AI. Previously he graduated from / worked at TU Munich and Carnegie Mellon University.
Viivi Lähteenoja
Senior Data Strategist
Viivi Lähteenoja is a data strategy, policy, and ethics professional and researcher with a focus on leveraging personal data benefits for individuals, organizations, and societies across nonprofit, academic, public sector, and private sector organizations.
Emeline Banzuzi
Privacy & Data Governance Counsel
Emeline Banzuzi serves as a legal counsel and researcher specializing in the dynamic field of law, technology, and society, with expertise in data protection consulting, risk management, compliance within FinTech, and academic research.
Joel Himanen
Data Scientist
Joel Himanen is a versatile data scientist with a strong emphasis on advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, having prior experience in data-driven sustainability projects in both the private and public sectors.
Waltter Roslin
Lawyer
Waltter is a lawyer focusing on questions concerning data sharing, governance, privacy and technology. He is also a PhD researcher at the University of Helsinki where his research focuses on the Finnish pharmaceutical reimbursement scheme.
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