References

See how we have helped our customers in implementing participation and creating new participatory innovations through our customer references.

During the years we have helped several communities regarding participation and the related digital tools. These customers have already trusted our expertise regarding participation.

Selected Cases

Helping Helsinki citizens to decide how to spend millions of euros

OmaStadi is the city of Helsinki’s way of providing participatory budgeting services for the citizens, allowing them to take part in deciding how the city spends its money.

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Empowering employees for innovation and productivity

Mainio Tech is helping large organizations in Finland in empowering their employees with customized digital platforms for effective brainstorming and organisational participation.

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All Customers

We have implemented Helsinki's OmaStadi participation platform and the Decidim software extensions related to this platform. The OmaStadi service has been used to implement the biyearly participatory budgeting process in Helsinki since 2018.

We have developed and implented a digital participation system for Tuusula in 2018 and improved the system after its launch. For example, we have implemented a user testing session with Tuusula in order to identify and fix several problems with the system from the users' point of view.

In 2020, we helped Turku to implemet its first participatory budgeting process under the name Resident Budget. During the cooperation with Turku we have implemented several additional features to the Decidim core software and improved the Decidim’s accessibility greatly.

We started working with Riihimäki in late 2019 and implemented a Decidim-based platform to support the participatory budgeting process. The platform was launched soon after and has been successfully running the participatory budgeting processes for the city since then.

In the beginning of 2021 Oulu launched its participation platform in collabration with us. The main idea was to build a centralized platform for all digital citizenship participation tools. During 2021, the platform was used for the first participatory budgeting process and it has been also used for internal participation needs within the city.

Seinäjoki renewed their participation model in 2020 which seeks to make the city active and communal, gives citizens the opportunity to impact the cityscape, streamlines the services and emphasizes the interaction between citizens and decision-makers. Decidim supports all these participation principles and provides a toolkit for the city to make these principles reality, for example through participative budgeting.

Siilinjärvi decided to be the first brave municipality in North Savo area to organize a participatory budgeting experimental in 2023 as part of the Sitra Lab transformation initiative, with the goal of creating new methods of influencing and making choices. Mainio Tech was chosen to implement a digital participation platform to support the participatory budgeting process.

2025 marked a turning point for the quiet Finnish town of Sastamala, the city launched its first participatory budgeting initiative to empower residents in deciding how to improve their community. We at Mainio Tech, stepped in with a digital platform that allowed citizens to propose and vote on ideas to boost civic engagement and also set a new standard for transparent, tech-driven governance in small municipalities.

Helsinki Experimentation Accelerator

The City of Helsinki develops their internal innovation activity through the Experimentation Accelerator program (Kokeilukiihdyttämö in Finnish). This program consists of yearly innovation campaigns around some topic that may help Helsinki in its internal processes, work efficiency and work-life quality.

Helsinki Idea Roastery

The Idea Roastery service is used internally by the City of Helsinki, to collect ideas from their employees regarding improving their workplace and work community. The service allows employees to submit ideas for different topics, such as improving their daily work, improving their workplace or regarding some innovation competition running inside the city.

Hämeenlinna – Influence, help, renew

Hämeenlinna launched a new Joy of work operating model in 2019, the essential idea of which is to involve the city's employees in workplace-related decision-making and development work. Because of this, Hämeenlinna decided to set up a new online platform, where employees will be offered opportunities to participate in this regard.

Tampere researched few digital platforms for implementing participatory budgeting within the city and after consideration, also ended up with the Decidim platform used in many other Finnish municipalities. The platform was launched early 2020 and during that year, the first participatory budgeting process was hosted on the platform. Since, the platform has expanded also to other use cases, such as participative strategy work.

Salo was selected as a participant in a Sitra project for finding new ways to involve citizens in municipal financial planning. This was implemented through a citizens’ panel with randomly selected participants. Mainio Tech implemented a Decidim-based digital participation platform to support the implementation of the citizens’ panel. In addition, Salo implements a yearly participatory budgeting which is hosted on the same digital platform.