News | Digital and population data services agency

Digital skills to continue to grow in Uusimaa next year

3.12.2019

The Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council has taken part in the Ministry of Finance-funded national digital support pilot for around a year’s time. During the pilot, the region’s residents have been...

Population Register Centre moves to new premises

24.10.2019

We will be working in the new premises as of Monday, 28 October 2019. The same premises also house the Helsinki Unit of the Local Register Office of Uusimaa and International House Helsinki. The...

Most influential people in digital government were listed - Population Register Centre´s Janne Viskari and Kimmo Rousku were represented

9.10.2019

Apolitical evaluated now for the second time the most influential people in digital government. The comparison included over 500 candidates from around the world. There were public officials,...

Suomi.fi e-Identification: Danske Bank’s security cards will no longer be in use after 14 September

12.9.2019

Danske Bank advises its customers to install the DanskeID app on their mobile devices or start using a separate code reader device. For more information, visit Danske Bank’s website at...

Certificates from the Population Information System service has new features - Now you can order a certificate for a dependent and use the service in English

9.8.2019

The service is still in the development phase and more certificates and features will be added to it in the future. The next features to be added to the service will be the possibility to order a...

Important documents available wherever you go – do you already receive electronic post from the authorities?

11.7.2019

Suomi.fi Messages is an electronic communication channel through which it is easy to contact several different authorities and public administration. You can do it in the evenings and at weekends,...

Aino Jalonen, Pekka Rehn and Timo Salovaara named Directors of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency

19.6.2019

Aino Jalonen has previously worked at the Prime Minister's Office as Director of Division responsible for personnel, economic and property matters, as well as security matters. Pekka Rehn and Timo...

E-Authorisations make it easier to use pharmacy services on behalf of others

13.6.2019

Finns may now give an e-Authorisation which authorises another person to handle their pharmacy-related matters. This pharmacy mandate can be set up in the Suomi.fi online service and can then be...

Director General of the Population Register Centre Janne Viskari appointed digital leader of the year 2019

9.5.2019

“For successful perception of a strategy that combines an organisation’s operations and the opportunities of digitalisation, the entire organisation’s effort is required. Similarly, collective...

Population Register Centre and local register offices will merge to form the Digital and Population Data Services Agency at the beginning of 2020

15.3.2019

The agency will be created when the Population Register Centre, local register offices and the Development and Steering Unit for the Local Register Offices operating under the Regional State...

The Population Register Centre’s report highlights new solutions for improving the accessibility and coverage of electronic identification

8.3.2019

According to the report, electronic identification needs updating also because the costs of identification are increasing too high for the state, as online transactions become more popular and the...

Ensure yourself a place at the top event on digitalisation: Registration for the Spring Splash Seminar is now open!

15.2.2019

What will a smart and service-oriented society be like and what are the opportunities it can offer us? What will new technology mean for security, knowledge and data, when the entire world is our...

Document acceptance procedures to be simplified in EU countries

13.2.2019

Regulation is applied to certain public documents issued by authorities in the EU Member States for example to establish the birth, death, name, marriage, residence or nationality of a person (see...

State employees take up skiing: If 100,000 citizens activate electronic messages from the authorities, the authorities promise to ski 10,000 kilometres

8.2.2019

Finnish citizens can stop receiving paper mail from the authorities by activating the electronic Suomi.fi Messages service. When you activate the service, you get e-mail notifications for all...

Parliamentary elections 2019: Notifications of the right to vote are now posted electronically to Suomi.fi Messages

6.2.2019

The Population Register Centre will send the notification of the right to vote in the parliamentary elections in 2019 to those eligible to vote whose address is in the Population Information...

Awareness of Suomi.fi increasing - Customers predominantly satisfied with services

25.1.2019

The Suomi.fi awareness survey for citizens and entrepreneurs A customer satisfaction survey A service image study Awareness of the Suomi.fi brand is currently at 61%. Awareness has increased by 40%...