REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE FUTURE 1/1998 vp

Table of Contents

To the reader





INTRODUCTION





I VALUES IN POLICY AND AS AN OBJECT OF POLICY

1. The plurality of values and assessments



• Permanence and movement
• The basic values are universal
• Ideals and action
• Personal and community values
• Policy values
• The crisis in the foundation of values



2. Structures: A matter of policy



• Peace and equality
• Ethnic origin and place of birth
• Feeling things as one's own: the personal and the collective
• Caring
• Rewards
• Rights and obligations
• Culture
• The use of time
• Communications, the Internet and the virtual economy





II THE MANY FACES OF WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT

1. Basic Finnish principles of work



• Everyone has a right to be useful
• Everyone has a right to benefit from work

2. Beneficial work, not simply paying work

3. The European and Anglo-American employment models



• Basic differences between the models
• The Club of Rome, French and Danish models
• The Phelps model

4. Finnish solutions



• Points of departure
• Employment models and guidelines for working
• Self-employment, small enterprises and major enterprises from the standpoint of working life



5. Would the Anglo-American employment model divide Finns?




III TROUBLE SPOTS IN THE WELFARE SYSTEM

1. A lack of social innovations - or difficulties in implementation?



• New technology and exports are not enough
• A defensive position is not the most fruitful

2. Strengthening the economic and social infrastructure



• Affluence and the cycle of wealth
• The financial foundation
• Finland's competitive position
• Social capital

3. Systematic and regular policy impact evaluation



• Whose affluence - and under what terms?
• The synergism of different policy sectors
• The system's responsibleness
• Personal and family responsibility
• A change in social solidarity?

4. A healthy public economy: An absolute prerequisite for affluence



• The European Union's points of departure and outlooks
• External problems



IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

1. Points of departure for assessment

2. The Kyoto Treaty: A first step in controlling climate change



• Climate change: A threat to sustainable development
• The Kyoto Treaty on the Slowing of Climate Change

3. Towards a more sustainable energy policy



• Economic growth and an environmentally friendly energy policy
• Methods for reducing carbon dioxide emissions

4. Particulates and their threat to health

5. Protecting natural diversity



• The interrelationship of climate change and natural diversity
• Forest policy and biodiversity

6. The Baltic Sea algae problem

7. The constructed environment




V FINLAND OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE CONTROL OF CRISES

1. The control of crises - major, minor and exaggerated

2. Are the values of the Information Society dividing Finns?



• Personal ideals may coincide
• Does the threat of a new type of class society exist?



3. Work in the Information Society



• The change in the nature of work and the new division of work tasks
• Opportunities for service occupations in Finland



4. Other means of building the Information Society



• Research and product development and support for technological enterprises
• Corporate parks and comparable skill models



5. Finland as the EU's Information Society laboratory



• Good prerequisites
• Falling through the cracks of democracy and the nation state
• Human development or a loss of human control?
• The Information Society will not be reached by drifting



6. Work for the future as an objective



• A step ahead
• The Committee for the Future

Positions

Proposed resolution

TuVM 1/1998 vp - VNS 3/1997 vp




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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE FUTURE 1/1998 vp

Skill and Fair Play - An Active and Responsible Finland

INTRODUCTION




Receipt for consideration

On 29 April 1997, Parliament sent the Council of State report "Skill and Fair Play - An Active and Responsible Finland" (Part II, VNS 2/1997 vp) to the Committee for the Future, for its preparatory consideration.

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Experts

The committee has heard the following experts:



• Minister Arja Alho, Ministry of Finance
• Paavo Löppönen, project manager, and Reijo Vanne, special researcher, Prime Minister's Office
• Taisto Turunen, manager, Department of Energy, Ministry of Trade and Industry
• Timo Hämäläinen, senior inspector, Ministry of Trade and Industry
• Marja-Liisa Parjanne, special researcher, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
• Keijo Mäkelä, special adviser, Ministry of Labour
• Kalevi Sorsa, M.S.
• Ilkka Suominen, director general, Alko Oy
• Councillor of State Johannes Virolainen
• Kati Peltola, Social Service Department, City of Helsinki
• Professor Yrjö Haila, Professor Markku Kuisma, Professor of Church History Juha Seppo, Leena Vilkka, Ph.D., and Juha Siltala, researcher, University of Helsinki
• Professor Risto Harisalo, Professor Antti Kasvio, Simo Aho, researcher, and Sami Borg, researcher, University of Tampere
• Professor Reijo Heinonen, University of Joensuu
• Raija Julkunen, senior lecturer, University of Jyväskylä
• Professor Hannu Katajamäki, University of Vaasa
• Professor Paul Lillrank, Professor Pirjo Mankki, Professor Jukka Ranta, Professor Veikko Teikari and Assistant Professor Peter Lund, Helsinki University of Technology
• Professor Matti Otala, Tampere University of Technology
• Harri Heino, research director, Research Centre of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church
• Professor Åke E. Andersson, Institutet för Framtidsstudier (Institute for Future Studies), Sweden
• Dr. John P. Klus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
• Ron Young, CEO, Knowledge Associates, Ltd., Cambridge, England
• Ulla Sirkeinen, director, Finnish Industry and Employers
• Dr. Tarja Cronberg, provincial director, North Karelia Regional Council
• Jaakko Iloniemi, managing director, Centre for Finnish Business and Political Studies
• Antti Hautamäki, managing director, Antti Rainio, project director, and Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, special expert, Finnish National Fund for Research and Development
• Pekka Ylä-Anttila, director, Research Institution of the Finnish Economy
• Tuire Santamäki-Vuori, acting director, and Seija Ilmakunnas, researcher, Labour Institute for Economic Research
• Pirjo Koivukangas, project director, and Mauno Krunlahti, project director, Welfare Cluster
• Pertti Laine, unit director, Finnish Forest Industries Federation
• Stig Kankkonen, journalist, Hufvudstadsbladet
• Antti Piippo, managing director, Elcoteq
• Aila Pukkila, managing director, Pukkila Press
• Lassi Mäkinen, economist, Lasmak Oy
• Kirsti Paakkanen, managing director, Marimekko Oy
• Carola Teir-Lehtinen, director, Neste Corporation
• Ilkka Tuomi, researcher, Nokia Research Center
• Samuli Skurnik, managing director, Pellervo Society
• Kari Ebeling, development director, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
• Pekka Ketonen, managing director, Vaisala Oy
• Kari Lilja, businessman, Wind Factory
• Arne Wessberg, president, and Ismo Silvo, head of planning, Finnish Broadcasting Company Ltd.
• Hilkka Pietilä, M.S.
• Toivo Pitkänen, inventor