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Knowledge and the Digital ICT PPP Tornio-Oulu- Corenet, telcos, Demand for fast connections and additional capacity is No 100 M€ (50 + 50) Data traffic between Russia,
Economy Infrastructure Helsinki- companies + private growing as data traffic constantly increases. Building Asia and EU is growing
St.Petersburg data investors new submarine cable connecting Tornio, Oulu, significantly. New
cable. Cap of the Helsinki and St Petersburg would benefit the whole connections are needed.
North-networks EU. Currently a sea cable from Finland to Germany is Fast global connections
and connections being planned/ built. Developing and building new fast would make Northern Europe
connections in the Arctic (Cap of the North) region a desirable place for data-
intensive industries.
Development and new
opportunities in the Arctic
region also require fast and
reliable connections. New
connections would support
EU arctic policies and
actions and arctic
cooperation. It would further
integrate arctic cities and
towns to Europe. New
connections would help in
creating European big
data/cloud industry
ecosystems. Benefits would
include creation of new
business.

Knowledge and the Digital Private R&D Private Beyond search - Helsinki Institute for The dominant paradigm of accessing information is No 15 M€ Big data solutions and user-
Economy new intelligent Information Technology/ very inefficient for complex and uncertain information friendly interfaces are crucial
interfaces to Aalto needs, and alternatives do not keep pace with the big in European level
information University,software/big data. Advanced interfaces are needed which combine development. Applying new
data companies intelligence in user modeling, personalization and data and big data based
adaptation to contexts, with new human-computer solutions and tools to
interaction paradigms and advanced visualizations. A different application areas
dominant proportion of current work is knowledge still needs large scale
work which can be made significantly more efficient development. Resarch and
with the new tools. Also end-user interfaces to R&D on new potential
services needs new interfaces as the number and interfaces and products
variety of services keeps increasing. Immediate would advance European
examples are customer-relationships management goal of a data-driven
interfaces, general-purpose interfaces to company economy.
databases, as well as personal and public databases
such as emails, and interfaces to recommendation
engines spreading to most on-line retail and services.
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