Everyone,

I've heard from many mouths that the Finnish hankintalaki prevents effective
software development for public sector. Eduskunta is going to make changes to
the law this autumn. Now would be a good time to give feedback to our
representatives about the issue.

I would like to understand the exact problems with the law. How does the law
inhibit success of software projects? How should the law be changed?

Also welcome are any ideas about how to express our concerns effectively to
lawmakers. I am trying to get eduskunta's tietoyhteiskuntaryhmä hear one of us
(Pekka Abrahamsson if it fits his calendar), but as far as I know, nothing else
has been planned so far.

I'll summarize the answers in a post a week from now.


Links
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Hankintalaki: http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2007/20070348

The creation of the current hankintalaki: http://tinyurl.com/hankintalain-teko

Eduskunta's review of the current hankintalaki (too bad we missed this boat),
and the planned changes: http://tinyurl.com/hankintalain-muutos


Dictionary
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eduskunta = the Finnish parliament
hankintalaki = the law governing publicly funded purchases
tietoyhteiskuntaryhmä = information society group (consists of roughly 20
members of the parliament; cross-party)