The purpose of Academy of Finland funded BRIDPOL research consortium led by prof. Jarmo Varkkuri (University of Tampere) is to is to contribute to a novel theoretical-conceptual understanding of the links between policy-making, value creation, and hybridity, as well as to more systematically scrutinize the impacts of hybridity on the governance of algorithms, digital business platforms, and urban sustainability.
IDIS researchers work in WP2 Public value as point of origin: Algorithmic Governance and Accountability led by prof. Tero Erkkilä
Our research explores public value in digitization and algorithmic governance facilitated by hybridization. We analyze the policies on algorithmic governance by focusing on the transnational co-creation of ethical codes and external assessments of AI. We also study algorithmic transparency and accountability in automated governance through the analytical lens of hybridity.
IDIS researchers involved: Tero Erkkilä, Ville Aula, Konstantinos Kostas, Juho Mölsä, Joel Hänninen, Jaakko Hillo
JuRe research consortium led by prof. Janne Salminen (University of Turku) was funded by the Strategic Research Council from 2021 to 2024. We studied the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the disciplines of law, administration, political science and history.
IDIS researchers worked in WP3 Openness and Legal Oversight led by prof. Tero Erkkilä
We tracked the challenges and problems of openness and legal oversight and administration in crises similar to the coronavirus pandemic. The problems regarding the openness of administration are connected, above all, to the publicity of decision-making and its knowledge base as well as to the possibilities to participate in the decision-making process by different actors. We looked at the role and actions of the principal legal overseers (the Finnish Parliamentary Ombudsman, the Chancellor of Justice) during the crisis and the institutional and political tensions connected to their status. In addition to the institutional stabilisation and change post-crisis, we studied how administrative crises can potentially support and strengthen democratic institutional practices and rights of the individual.
IDIS researchers involved: Tero Erkkilä, Timo Pankakoski, Laura Nordström, Juho Mölsä, Johanna Metsänheimo
The project explored numerical objectification and its political implications in European and global governance. The research builds on the project team’s previous work concerning numbers, indexes and global governance. So far, the members of our project team have looked at global and transnational governance with regards to democracy indexes, ‘good governance’ indexes, global university rankings and demographic statistics. In connection to our research on numerical objectifications, we have also published conceptual analysis on university autonomy, transparency and accountability, and gender equality.