Making a difference
We look to uncover sustainability challenges and solve them with innovative solutions. Our solutions benefit our customers, their customers and society as a whole. Scalable sustainable solutions can make a positive impact across all sectors. Our intelligent solutions deliver tangible impacts, that benefit people and the planet alike.
Ida Bohman Steenberg
Head of Sustainability
Sustainability in action
Consumers find companies' role in solving the climate crisis important
Only 15% of Finns, Swedes and Norwegians find it easy to evaluate the sustainability performance of companies , 30% want more transparency.
Learn moreIDC recognizes Tietoevry as a Major Player for Smart Cities
Smart cities focus on economic development, sustainability, innovation and citizen engagement to change and improve the quality of life.
Learn moreOur efforts for the environment have been recognised in the Climate Disclosure Project
Our efforts to impact climate change has been recognised with an A list ranking in CDP's climate ranking.
Climate data helps citizens and municipalities cut CO2 emissions
The goal is to create a tool to truly map out where we are in reaching UN Sustainable Development Goal 12, sustainable consumption
Read moreData helps the city of Vaasa go carbon neutral
The team is researching measures that could slow down climate change, with the City of Vaasa a pilot environment.
Read moreA sustainable world one step at a time
Throw away the spreadsheets!
Tietoevry’s Sustainability Data Hub puts sustainability right where it belongs: at the heart of your company. Unlock continuous access to real-time data and get a dashboard of your sustainability performance. Save time, costs and resources with the power of automation.
Learn moreClimate change may affect the financing of companies
Climate change and sustainability are becoming a significant element in the development of companies’ risk profiles and profitability in all industries. In response to this, Sparebanken Sør is now strengthening its work on risk assessment and advice relating to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors as part of the financing services it provides for corporate customers.
Read moreWhen sustainability meets digitalization
The National Resource Institute Finland Luke acts under the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. It researches alternatives to make better use of renewable natural resources. Driving change requires a mastery of the latest technologies and communication methods. Read more how we have been supporting Luke to better position and market their expertise to increase the impact of what they do to build a better tomorrow.
Read moreThe Polite Type
The Polite Type is an initiative against cyberbullying, co-developed with teenagers. It is an open-source font that rewrites hurtful words and replaces them with more considerate ones to ignite anti-bullying discussion. Together with our long-term partner Children & Youth Foundation in Finland, we want bullies to rethink the words they use and the actual meaning behind them.
Join the initiativeEthics in technology - should you care?
A great thing about humanity is that there are, in fact, very few teams in the technology industry who intentionally set out to build something unethical. If a product or service is unethical, it’s typically due to oversight, accident or ignorance. It’s not a deliberate attempt to make something unethical, but rather that ethics never really entered the creative process. Read what Carina Wiman and Simon Kavanagh have to say on the topic!
Read moreHow dictation saves time when treating patients
How to expedite patient data entry and availability is key questions when improving health and care. Speech recognition makes a difference, and a most significant advantage is the real time transfer of data from one professional to another. For example, when a patient is being moved from the emergency clinic to the ward, all patient data is immediately available from the electronic medical records as soon as the doctor has finished her dictation.
Read moreHow Nordic banking is turning investment more sustainable
Within eight years we have to slash the world’s CO2 emissions in half. European banks and policymakers are already leading the way, seeing sustainable investment as an opportunity combined with responsibility. Read what our Banking Client Partner Jennifer Rebel has to say on the topic.
Learn morePreventive healthcare can lower the costs of care with AI
Using artificial intelligence, AI, for predictive and prescriptive diabetes care can lead to significant positive socio-economic impacts. According to our socio-economic impact study on national level in Finland, the service could help save 280 MEUR from direct healthcare cost and yield 930 MEUR increase in productivity on annual basis. At the same time, patients’ wellbeing and quality of life would increase. Read more on the solution here.
Learn moreThe City of Espoo: a unique experiment with AI
Artificial Intelligence identified individuals in need of support in a project with the City of Espoo in Finland. The experiment combined the social, healthcare and early education client relationship data of the entire population of Espoo for the years 2002–2016. By analysing this data mass, we found new preventive methods for targeting services to municipality citizens, for example to prevent social exclusion. Read more on the case!
Learn moreDigitalisation to aid the elderly in Sweden
Innovating to benefit people who are not at home in the digital world is an important part of social sustainability. How could we introduce digitalization into the homes of users of a home care service? A joint innovation project with two Swedish municipalities, Malmö City and Kristianstad, explored the opportunities.
Read moreSpeeding up research and treatment with AI
An AI solution developed for researches uses natural language processing to recognize phrases and words from medical records it has been taught. The tool then structures the gathered data according to set labels and transfers it to a data lake – where researchers can access it in real time. This speeds up research and makes brain disease treatment more efficient and patient-centric. Read more about the project with Neurocenter in Finland.
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