KELA
The Social Insurance Institution, KELA, takes care of the basic security of those living in Finland in various life situations. All persons covered by Finnish social security are customers of KELA. During my previous studies, I received a study grant. It is an incredible handshake from the state that students can focus mainly on their studies that they will become taxpayers in the future. Payers on the other hand enable KELA's subsudies to be distributed to those who need them. I also have three children, while I was expecting I received both a maternity kit and parental allowance. Similarly myös husband was able to keep earned paternity leave with the support of KELA. KELA pays child benefit for each child permanently residing in Finland until the end of the month in which the child reaches the age of 17. So far we get it from three children. Although it covers only a minimal part of all the costs related to children :)
My Kanta Pages – Omakanta
My Kanta Pages are an online service where you can view own health information and prescriptions, request a renewal of a prescription and save the will to donate and treat an organ.
The service can be accessed with a bank ID or mobile certificate. Personally I have used the service both for renewing prescriptions and for matters related to the Corona certificate.
KEVA
Keva is Finland’s largest pension insurer, which takes care of pension matters for the municipal sector, the state, the Church, KELA’s personnel, the Bank of Finland and new welfare areas.
I went to the Keva’s pages, but for some reasons the pension calculator didn’t work for me. I would not have noticed this whitout this task, so I was in direct contact with them. I quess my retirement age is about 65 years, but I’m afraid it’s much longer.
Online shopping
I use a lot of different online stories. As a busy mother of many children, both my own and children’s clothes are ordered online. I usually prefer e.g. Zalando and Boozt, which sell products of several different brands. And return is also free of charge. I have sometimes ordered from foreign online stores and then paid several tens of euros for the return. But I learned and I have not repeated the same mistake.
We also travel a lot and we always book trips online. It’s slow and quite laborious, but it saves moneys. Online offers are often much cheaper than booking directly from a hotel, for example. And I don’t even know how even if airline tickets could be purchased other than online?
Good life tool kit
I would like to present the website www.hyvakysymys.fi in my field. It is not a service or an application, but it contains a lot of usable material for different stages of life. The target groups are divided according to the life situation. You can also search for information by topic, such as interpersonal relationships or the lives of young people.
The site directs the services or information of various organizations and actors. For example, in connection with the lives of young people, there is material for both the young person themselves and the parent. The site is still unfinished, but it has the potential to become one of life’s toolkits.
The digital divide
The digital divide is everywhere. Between genders and generations. Between developed and developing counties. Between urban and rural areas. But the digital divide is also between the floors of a house.
As a mother, it is difficult to understand how almost every social life of young people takes place via the mobilephone and various social media. How have mobilephones come to replace real human encounters? Why not just go to friend’s couch on holidays but prefer to lie in your own bed and do business with your friends over the phone? Of course, this also causes contradictions. I would like my children to learn to appreciate genuine encounters as well, but because of the digital divide, we eill never be able to truly understand each other on this issue.
My comments
I commented on these blogs
Self-evaluation
The test was interesting, but a little too long. I noticed that I couldn’t so much focus on the answers at the end. But maybe this data reflects something about me.
The highest values in the survey I received: Law, digital exploration, media choice, self-service and storage. The lowest value was in: Ability to customize applications and devices to suit their own personal preferences and solve technical problems or tasks. And this is true :)
Self evaluation
Creating a blog and producing content there was completely new to me. There were small inconveniences at first, but fortunately I found the site was quite simply. I also realized that influencing work is certainly not a quick and easy job if you want to make genuinely stylish content.
When I visited the pages of my student colleagues, I noticed that there were many levels of experts there as well. The pages of the others were really beautiful and stylish, carefully maintained. And then there were these like my pages – not so great, but more pracitice pieces.
The course was a refreshing variation and producting a text in English of course always requires an special effort.