• 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
• 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