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"The Finnish government has approved the technology behind a new 'Open Ministry' platform, which will act as a hub for citizens who want new laws voted on in the country's parliament. But could that work elsewhere?"

"Le pays a mis en place une réglementation qui permet aux citoyens de suggérer des lois, qui seront votées s'ils rassemblent 50 000 signatures. Une plateforme de crowdsourcing a du coup été lancée, pour faciliter les initiatives."

Electrifying our cultural heritage Digitalkoot is a joint project run by the National Library of Finland and Microtask. Our goal is to index the library's enormous archives so that they are searchable on the Internet. This will enable everyone to easily access our cultural heritage.

The worldwide Big Data Week kicks off today with gatherings in the U.K., U.S., Germany, Finland and Australia. As part of their global focus, Big Data Week founder/organizer Stewart Townsend (@stewarttownsend) of DataSift, and Carlos Somohano (@ds_ldn), founder of the Data Science London community and the Data Science Hackathon, have been tracking big data in Europe. This is an area that we're exploring here at Radar and through October's Strata Conference in London, so I asked Townsend and Somohano to share their perspectives on the European data scene. They combined their thoughts in the following Q&A.