- City: Jyväskylä
- Candidate number: 42
- Political Party: the Greens
- My education: Doctor of Economic Sciences from the area of Information Systems Science
- Age: 38 years
- Area where I live: Äijälänranta, Kuokkala
- Family: partner and currently 2 spanish water dogs
- Current Job title: Configuration owner, experience from e.g., in roles of Researcher, Product Owner, Business Analyst, User Experience Designer, Line Manager, Web Developer, Project Manager, Planning Officer, ICT Entrepreneur
Religion: Christian - Current Positions of Trust: City Councilor, Member of the City Board, Chairman of Jyväskylä Food Service Kylän Kattaus, Province Councilor, Church Councilor, Board Member of Jyväskylä Christian Institute. In my work: Chief Shop Steward, Occupational health and safety representative
If you vote me to be your representative, you will get a trustworthy, hard working, listening and a fact-oriented representative. I want to foster equality of all people, enhance the possibilities of everyone to be part of the society, improve people’s wellbeing and of course: protect the nature, environment and animal welfare.
What I stand for?
- Protecting environment
- keep the amount of vegetarian food increasing in Jyväskylä’s own food services
- taking care of the cycling routes, skiing tracks and walking paths
- encouraging to produce waste as little as possible and recycle as well as possible
- developing public transportation
- maintaining local forest areas
- protecting the forests
- preserving the diversity of our nature
- Taking care of children and families
- support and help for families needs to be available when needed
- the amount of children per employee in daycare and in schools must be kept in reasonable level
- having the possibility for a child to have a hobby must not be dependent of the salary level of his/her parents
- Taking care of the elderly
- Loneliness needs to be actively prevented
- When an elderly person needs help to home, it have to be easy to get
- When an elderly cannot anymore live in her/his own home, a well resourced senior apartment has to be available for anyone needing it
- Animal-friendliness
- quality needs to be an important factor in the services for animals
- adequate animal welfare inspections
- favoring local production facilities when buying food for city’s own food services
- supporting also services for dogs and dog-owners
- quality needs to be an important factor in the services for animals
- Smart technology
- new digital health care services need to be actively taken into use
- usability needs to have higher value in procurements of new information systems
- street lighting and other urban technology needs to be used and developed with intelligent, adaptive solutions also in the future
- Let’s support providing open data also in future
- Smart and fair business policy
- services for entrepreneurship as keeping our business growing and getting new business is the key to keep also the public services in good level
- active discussions of bringing or starting new companies to/in Jyväskylä
- encouraging recruitment consultancy services
- Equal services to all
- accessible, high-quality health care
- libraries
- seeing people and humanity as a value and an opportunity, never as a burden