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  • Population Register Centre moves to new premises

    24.10.2019

    The Population Register Centre is moving to new office premises at Lintulahdenkuja 2, Helsinki.

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

    9.10.2019

    Anna-Maija Karjalainen, Director General of Public Sector ICT at the Ministry of Finance, and Janne Viskari, Director General and Kimmo Rousku, Chief Senior Specialist from the Population Register Centre were placed among the 100 most influential people in the world when comparing the most influential persons in digital government.

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

    12.9.2019

    Danske Bank has announced that it will no longer use conventional code cards, or security cards, after 14 September. This also applies to Suomi.fi e-Identification and all public administration services that use it for identification purposes.

  • 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 possibility to order a certificate for a dependent has been added to the Certificates from the Population Information System service as part of the VAAKA project. In addition, English has been added as a language that can be used in the service.

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

    11.7.2019

    Where is my new driving licence? Did my youngest one get a place in day care? Did I pass the entrance exam to higher education? Did the local authority ever reply to my question concerning ploughing snow on the streets? We citizens need to contact the authorities surprisingly often. Today, some of the official post is sent online, which is practical and saves a lot of money and paper.

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

    19.6.2019

    ML Aino Jalonen, M.Ec. Pekka Rehn and MA Timo Salovaara have been named as Directors at the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, which begins operations at the beginning of 2020. The three will report to Anne Viskari, Director-General of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency and will start work in their new posts on 1 January 2020.

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

    13.6.2019

    Your own proof of identity is now sufficient for collecting another person's prescription medicines from the pharmacy provided that you have received an e-Authorisation in the Suomi.fi service. This change will particularly help with the daily life of families with children and those taking care of their spouse’s affairs.

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

    9.5.2019

    The information technology trade publication Tivi has nominated Director General of the Population Register Centre (PRC) Janne Viskari as the digital business leader of the year 2019. The selection was published in Tivi on 9 May 2019.

  • 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 Act on the Establishment of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency was approved today by the President of the Republic. The Act will enter into force on 1 January 2020, when the new Digital and Population Data Services Agency (Finnish Digital Agency) will begin operations in Finland.

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

    8.3.2019

    In its report, the Population Register Centre states that current forms of electronic identification do not serve public administration’s all customer groups. The report proposes that the state would produce a new identification method functioning as a smartphone application. The citizens could use this method to identify themselves to access public administration services, as well as in initial electronic identification.

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

    15.2.2019

    Registration for the Spring Splash Seminar is now open. Come and take a peek at the future and discuss the customer-friendly services that will be needed to support us during the transition.

  • Document acceptance procedures to be simplified in EU countries

    13.2.2019

    The EU Regulation on requirements for presenting certain public documents will enter into force on 16 February 2019. The purpose of the Regulation is to simplify the formal acceptance procedures of documents.

  • 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

    The Population Register Centre and the Finnish Tax Administration and invite Finnish citizens to move to electronic communication with state authorities instead of paper mail. If 100,000 Finns activate the Suomi.fi Messages service by the end of February, Population Register Centre Director General Janne Viskari and Tax Administration Director General Markku Heikura, together with their colleagues, promise to clock up 10,000 kilometres on cross-country skis.

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

    6.2.2019

    For the parliamentary elections in 2019, notifications of the right to vote may be accessed for the first time in electronic format instead of being sent in the post. To access your notification of the right to vote in the parliamentary elections, you must be using Suomi.fi Messages by 16.00 on 22 February 20219.

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

    25.1.2019

    The Population Register Centre carried out three surveys for its stakeholders at the end of 2018.

  • Suomi.fi performed very well in a recent European Commission study of digital public services.

    14.12.2018

    Suomi.fi performed very well in the 2018 eGovernment Benchmark report, in which the European Commission surveyed the digital public services available across the region.

  • Spring Splash is coming once again – remember the date: 3 April 2019!

    13.12.2018

    The Spring Splash Seminar, which is already a tradition of sorts, will next be held at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki on 3 April 2019.

  • Director General of the Population Register Centre Janne Viskari selected as influencer of the year 2018

    5.12.2018

    Tivi magazine has nominated Director General of the Population Register Centre Janne Viskari as the influencer of the year 2018. The selection was published in Tivi on 5 December 2018.

  • New Service Locations mobile app helps clients find public sector service locations

    3.12.2018

    The Population Register Centre and Cybercom have teamed up to develop an augmented reality mobile app to make it easier for citizens to use public sector services. The name of the app is “Service Locations (beta)”. This is the trial version of the service, which will in the future be included as part of the Suomi.fi mobile app.

  • Mobile certificates are worth using – The rapid advance of digitalisation highlights the importance of trustworthy identification

    21.11.2018

    The Population Register Centre has tendered the strong identification trust network for processing identification for public government digital services and made agreements with banks on the use of banking codes as an identification tool. Through these agreements, citizens will in future be able to sign into public government digital services using a mobile certificate or banking codes. In addition, it will be possible to sign into services using the Citizen Certificate on personal identity cards issued by the police.

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