Antti Poikola

Advocate and experimenter of openness in society. Researcher at Aalto University / Helsinki Institute of Information Technology and founding member of the Open Knowledge Finland association.

Antti Poikola has expertise is in developing solutions for the open collaboration between citizens, companies and the public sector organisations. He is active and well connected in Open Data and MyData movements in Finland and internationally. His research focuses around questions on how to utilize personal data for the benefit of individuals. He is the main author for the guidebook, My Data - human centric way to organize personal data published by the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications and currently he is organising big international MyData conference that will take place in Helsinki and Tallinn later this year.