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{|===''Assessment of Homework 3 of Assessment of Homework 3 of Juho Kutvonen ===
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(Groupwork of Juho Kutvonen and Salla)
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{{comment|# |I collected the answers into three tables for easier reading and commenting. You could do the same for the other characterization/evaluation below, e.g. by copying the tables as such and replacing their contents (I recommend doing the same to everyone else as well).|--[[User:Mikko Pohjola|Mikko Pohjola]] 09:44, 9 February 2013 (EET)}}
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:{{comment|# |Will get back to comment the contents later.|--[[User:Mikko Pohjola|Mikko Pohjola]] 09:51, 9 February 2013 (EET)}}
 
'''Knowledge-policy interaction'''
 
{|{{prettytable}}
|+ '''Characterization of knowledge-policy interaction
! Attribute
! characterization
|-----
| Impacts
| The effects of metals on lake water as domestic water as a result metal emissions from the Talvivaara mine
|-----
| Causes
| Present metal emission from the Talvivaara mine negatively affecting the feasibility of nearby lake water as domestic water.
|-----
| Problem owner
|
* Local residents who experiences the impacts 
• Environmental authorities, who provide metal emission restrictions to Talvivaara mine.
• Talvivaara mine experts and engineers to review designing structures to ensure that the metal emissions could be reduced.
 
|-----
| Target
|
*• The city council can use the results to give recommendations or guidelines for proper mechanisms of operation of the mine to cut down  metal emissions. 
• Local residents living nearby lakes to document first had experience.
• Communication and public relations out fits is responsible for the communication of recommendations
 
|-----
| Interaction
| They provided a very direct and specific scope of participation and a good knowledge and policy interaction framework as indicated in their detailed draft,  in my opinion.
 
{|{{prettytable}}
|+ '''Characterization of the dimensions of openness.
! Dimension
! Characterization
|-----
| Scope of participation
| They provided the following participants: ELY centre, Local residents living nearby lakes, SYKE, and added that Talvivaara mine is excluded because it may be partial.  I think they did a good job by providing a detail account of participants and also providing reasons why Talvivaara mine is excluded.
|-----
| Access to information
| Their draft gave enough information concerning this aspect.
|-----
| Timing of openness
|They provided detailed accounts here.
| Scope of contribution
|They gave enough information on the intended users specific roles each will play.
| Impact of contribution
| • There was a good number of specific participants: ELY centre, local residents living nearby lakes and  SYKE,
 
 
Explanations of categories of interaction within the knowledge-policy interaction framework.


:I believe their draft was well thought out and carefully planned. It contained clear information regarding specific participants and their corresponding roles.  
'''Opasnet''' is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by [[User:Jouni|Jouni Tuomisto]], Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace.  


Opasnet has a wide variety of topics based on collaborative work. Therefore, many pages are just stubs about what hopefully will eventually become solid scientific information. Therefore, we collaboratively curate many pages by improving the content and evaluating the quality. If you see a purple box on top of a page, it means that an expert of the field has checked the content.


'''Evaluation of the assessment draft'''
Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the field of environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.
 
{|{{prettytable}}
|+ '''Evaluation according to the properties of good assessment
! Attribute
! Score
! Explanation
|-----
| Quality of content
| 3
| The draft was clear and concise containing relevant information.
| Applicability: Relevance
| 3
| As mentions earlier the draft contained some practical and workable ideas.
| Applicability: Availability
| 3
|In summary,I would say it was a well thought out draft. They seem to understand the situation on the ground.
| Applicability: Usability
| 4
| For similar reason, because it was well thought out, it scores also good marks as far as usability is concerned in my opinion. 
| Applicability: Acceptability
| 2
|  The participants who were involved in the assessment will find it a bit easy to accept it.
 
|-----
| Efficiency
| 3
| Good attempt as it sought to solicit for ideas from several participants. The information was organised in small workable units. 
 
 
 
'''Comments and ideas how to improve the draft'''
 
In general they seem to have clear understanding and first hand information on the issue they were tackling. I will only congratulate them for a good work done.
 
{|===''Assessment of Homework 3 of Sami Rissanen ===
(Groupwork of Sami Rissanen & Jukka Hirvonen)
 
NOTE: Incidentally, the two grouped I evaluated worked on local Finnish issues. They worked on Talvivaara mine and its environmental concerns . Both groups seem to have a full understanding and first hand information about the concern they addressed in their drafts. For this reason, most of my evaluations are similar.
 
'''Knowledge-policy interaction'''
 
{|{{prettytable}}
|+ '''Characterization of knowledge-policy interaction
! Attribute
! characterization
|-----
| Impacts
| The effects of  mineral dust (PM10 and PM2,5) from the Talvivaara mine that is present in air of mining and working area where workers are exposed to different heavy metal types: t.ex: copper, nickel, kobolt etc.
| Causes
| Hazards of fine particle emissions (PM10, PM2,5) from the Talvivaara mine to mine workers and people who live nearby mine or work nearby mine area
| Problem owner
Talvivaara mining company Kainuun ELY-keskus (Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment)
Regional TTL (Työterveyslaitos)
 
|-----
| Target
Mine workers and people who live nearby mine or work nearby mine area
Talvivaara mining company wants to know is the air quality in acceptable level
ELY-keskus needs to know is the air quality legal and safe to workers
 
 
|-----
| Interaction
They provided a very direct and specific scope of participation and a good knowledge on what each participant offers as indicated in their detailed draft, in my opinion. They however did not mention local residents who I consider as important.
|+ '''Characterization of the dimensions of openness.
! Dimension
! Characterization
|-----
| Scope of participation
They provided the following participants: A consultant to measure air quality.
Company, ELY-keskus, DARM group, Regional TTL, The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC). However, they left out local residents who are also important. Also, I don’t understand how they seem to project that the company will be biased.
 
| Access to information
| Their draft gave enough information concerning this aspect.
 
| Timing of openness
|They provided detailed accounts here.
| Scope of contribution
|They gave enough information on the intended users specific roles each will play
| Impact of contribution
There was a good number of specific participants: A consultant to measure air quality. Company, ELY-keskus, DARM group, Regional TTL, The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC).
 
 
Explanations of categories of interaction within the knowledge-policy interaction framework.
 
I believe their draft was well thought out and carefully planned. It contained clear information regarding specific participants and their corresponding roles.
 
'''Evaluation of the assessment draft'''
 
{|{{prettytable}}
|+ '''Evaluation according to the properties of good assessment
! Attribute
! Score
! Explanation
|-----
| Quality of content
| 3
| The draft was clear and concise containing relevant information.
| Applicability: Relevance
| 3
|As mentions earlier the draft contained some practical and workable ideas.
| Applicability: Availability
| 3
|In summary, I would say it was a well thought out draft. They seem to understand the situation on the ground.
| Applicability: Usability
| 3
| For similar reason, because it was well thought out, it scores also good marks as far as usability is concerned in my opinion. 
| Applicability: Acceptability
| 2
|  The participants who were involved in the assessment will find it a bit easy to accept it.
 
|-----
| Efficiency
| 3
| Good attempt as it sought to solicit for ideas from several participants. The information was organised in small workable units. 
 
 
 
'''Comments and ideas how to improve the draft'''
 
In general they seem to have clear understanding and first hand information on the issue they were tackling. I will only congratulate them for a good work done. Both group did very well and I am impressed with their work as beginners but with time it could be further improved with much detail and specific actions since some aspects were vague and broad.
 
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'''Opasnet''' is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace. Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.


<center>'''Anyone can solve common problems.'''
<center>'''Anyone can solve common problems.'''
   
   
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* [[Opasnet]]
* [[Opasnet]]
* [[Open assessment]]
* [[Open assessment]]
* [[Knowledge crystal]]
* [[What is improved by Opasnet and open assessment?]]  
* [[What is improved by Opasnet and open assessment?]]  
* [[Contributing to Opasnet]]
* [[Contributing to Opasnet]]
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We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!  
We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!  


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* [[Helsinki energy decision 2015|How should energy be produced in Helsinki in the future?]]
* [[Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination|Swine flu vaccination in Finland was better than not vaccinating anyone even when narcolepsy is included in the assessment]]
* [[Assessment of the health impacts of H1N1 vaccination|Swine flu vaccination in Finland was better than not vaccinating anyone even when narcolepsy is included in the assessment]]
* [[Should I take iodine tablets?|Most likely you should not take iodine tablets because of Fukushima nuclear accident]]
* [[Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon|Fish is healthy despite persistent pollutants in it]]
* [[Benefit-risk assessment on farmed salmon|Fish is healthy despite persistent pollutants in it]]
* [[Health impact of radon in Europe|Radon in indoor air is a major health problem]]. If living in certain areas, you should consider actions.
* [[Health impact of radon in Europe|Radon in indoor air is a major health problem]]. If living in certain areas, you should consider actions.
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** [[Portal:Open Assessors' Network]]
** [[Portal:Open Assessors' Network]]
* '''By information type:
* '''By information type:
** [[Portal:Modelling with Opasnet]] (tools and instructions for impact modelling)
** [[Portal:Open assessments]]
** [[Portal:Open assessments]]
** [[Portal:Variables]] (science-based answers to any questions)
** [[Portal:Variables]] (science-based answers to any questions)
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* [[A Tutorial on R]]
* [[A Tutorial on R]]
* [[Fukushima nuclear accident studies]]
* [[IEHIAS]]
* [[Decision analysis and risk management|''Decision analysis and risk management'' course (28 Feb - 12 Apr 2011)]]  
* [[Decision analysis and risk management 2017|''Decision analysis and risk management'' course]]  
* [http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/wsa Opasnet wins WSA Finland award in ''e-Government &amp; Institutions'' category]  
* [http://www.mindtrek.org/2010/wsa Opasnet wins WSA Finland award in ''e-Government &amp; Institutions'' category]  
* [[EBoDE|Burden of disease by environmental stressors in Europe (EBoDE)]]  
* [[EBoDE|Burden of disease by environmental stressors in Europe (EBoDE)]]  
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<h2 style='height: 30px; line-height: 30px; padding: 0 0 0 6px; border: solid 1px #aaf; background-color: #ccf; margin-top: 4px;'>Active assessments</h2>


* '''[[:Category:Participants needed|Assessments that need new participants]]'''
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* [[:op_fi:Tutkimuslaitoksen tietopolitiikka|Information policy of a research institute]] (in Finnish)
* [[:op_fi:Tutkimuslaitoksen tietopolitiikka|Information policy of a research institute]] (in Finnish)
* [[:op_fi:Hyöty-riskiarviointi ydinvoimasta Suomessa|Nuclear energy in Finland]] (in Finnish)
* [[:op_fi:Hyöty-riskiarviointi ydinvoimasta Suomessa|Nuclear energy in Finland]] (in Finnish)
'''[[:Category:Participants needed|Assessments that need new participants]]'''


<small>[[:Category:Assessments|Show all]]</small><br>  
<small>[[:Category:Assessments|Show all]]</small><br>  
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Assessments are ordered by popularity (page loads in parenthesis).
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Latest revision as of 17:23, 11 December 2019

Information about Opasnet

Opasnet is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. Opasnet is maintained and developed by Jouni Tuomisto, Finland. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace.

Opasnet has a wide variety of topics based on collaborative work. Therefore, many pages are just stubs about what hopefully will eventually become solid scientific information. Therefore, we collaboratively curate many pages by improving the content and evaluating the quality. If you see a purple box on top of a page, it means that an expert of the field has checked the content.

Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the field of environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.

Anyone can solve common problems.


Opasnet is the web workspace for solving them by you, and by us together.


Learn from and participate in Opasnet

We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!


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Assessments are ordered by popularity (page loads in parenthesis).

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