When i studied at the maritime vocational school i applied Kela for a general housing benefit so i could live in a 1 bedroom apartment, outside the school district. This helped me during my school years at the maritime vocational school to concentrate on school. Compared to living in a dormitory, where there is allways something going on and little no none of quiet time. When i applied general housing benefit my parents income involved on the amount of support i could get ftom Kela. I have had the European health care card for some time now. I got it first when I worked abord in Germany 2014.
Omakanta is a service for persons own health care data, such as school or work checkups, taken vaccinations, recepts, make a organ donors consent or to print an EU coronavirus. I logged to Kanta service with mobile verification which is provided by my phone operator. I checked my accumulated pension so far, with a work experience of +10 years. After taxes my pension would be lower than my salary in my first fulltime job as a cheff.
Pension is something that needs to be looked for, i mean worked for, so that at my lowest retirement age i can live the way i wish. My lowest retirement age at the moment is 67 years and 7 months. Now looking at retirement age compared to my current age i become a bit overwhelmed because i just realized while writing this blog that i have crossed the half way point. I’m currently 34 years old and roughly two months away from 35 years old, so bye bye youth and welcome middle age. I hope i age well. I can only hope that my ability to work stays as good as it can, so that maybe if my body and mind is capable i could work for an extra 2,5 years to earn more than 400€ to my monthly pension. The best would be that i could retire at 60 years with enough money saved and/or invested to housing or stocks. One can only dream and try to make it happen.
I visited fiksuruoka.fi and urjalanmakeistukku.fi. First two sites are finnish operated digital shops where one can purchase consumer products like sports, clothing, pets, hygiene, dishwasher tablets, laundry detergent, water/soda bottles, alcohol free beer, chips, all sorts of canned products for under the local market values. One thing to note in this site is that it sells products which best before/expirement day is close. But in my opinion for example canned foods is well preserved, so for that this site is a good place to make a bargain for your household and save up some good euros during the year. I can recommend this site to anyone who’s interested making easy savings. Fiksuruoka site provides basic information on the given products, expirement dates and product information e.g. how much a tomato sauce has calories. Urjalan makeistukku is the place to be when it comes to sweets, snacks, drinks and assortment of prepared foods (add boiling water). This is similar site to fiksuruoka but more sweets and snack.
I chose Siemens Healthineers teamplay performance management application. It is widely used in the field of my expertise and has proven to be a good tool for the radiographic department. With teamplay one can overlook departments imaging machinerys performance data, monitor quantities of the chosen departments throughput and adjust human resources compared to teamplays given data. With teamplay radiographic departments can overview, is given the permission, other departments imaging machinerys data, to compare workflows and get benchmarks. Teamplay enables to view other departments imaging parameters used for a certain imaging protocol, so it can be compared between imaging machines, what it good and what is not good. With good or not good I mean used radiation dose, how much it is needed to obtain a certain level of image quality that is not too good and not too low to be diagnostic for the radiology to give a statement off the given imaging machines given imaging protocol in a given imaged person. Siemens teamplay is used by the hospital physicist to evaluate and to provide a simplified charts from all of this data teamplay offers. A good application tool.
Digitalization and digital gap; what are the risks and challenges for those people, who do not use virtual services?
Digitalization was the next big step in the history of evolution. Before that was industrial evolution which brought us all sorts of machines to help our everyday life. As a former chef/waiter I can say that all the kitchen appliances have helped chefs and waiters alot in their field of expertice. Digitalization has also brought interesting new applications to everyday life. For people from the industrial age digitalization may look like an alien has landed in their hands and tehy don’t know what to do with it. Compared to youngsters who don’t know how to survive without one, it’s a gap that needs to be recognised. Because without the people from the industrial age some functions may not be done by the hands from digitalization era. Risks may vary from dropping to a zone where everyone else around you uses the advantages of digitalization. Person who does not use those advantages may feel like everyone else is cheating and that the only proper way to do things is the way before digitalization. It may consume this person to a point where that person starts to think wrong on others who use perks of digitalization and the ones that use them, may think that this person is someone I don’t feel like I want to get in touch. The risks converts to challenge in this case. We’ll see in the next 10 to 20 years how this digital gap went, I mean was it necessary to even consider that there is a digital gap?
These three interesting articles were commented by me.
DIGI CITIZEN – Anni in digitalized world (savonia.fi)
DIGI CITIZEN – World of digitalization (wordpress.com)
DIGI CITIZEN – ISOKEN (wordpress.com)
Thoughts
Building a blog was easier than I anticipated. This course has set new thoughts of digital applications and digitalization. TED talks is something that I need to look into. There were chosen a good variety of TED talks in this course and those were well spoken and spoken in a way that myself feel like I want to listen. Though I am not the person who listens similar shows or podcasts as TED talks – not before this course.
Digital competence test showed me that I’m way further on my digital knowledge than I thought. Surely not everyone is capable coding websites etc. or managing your own Vlog and not everyone need to know how to do these, like I don’t. Though it’s good to be aware of almost everything that is happening around you in the digital world, so one doesn’t get too far from the point where generalizing this times humans maybe need to be. To be able to communicate, use everyday digital applications to buy groceries etc. and storage data to a cloud service. There are so many digital and digitalized applications and things from the industrial age that has been converted to digital or has been digitalized. Like taking a photo, it’s fairly old invention. Taking a photo lets say in the 18th 19th century compared to a normal smartphone that is used by more an more in the modern world. Wild to think what it grows to be, for example taking photographs in the near future.
All type of digital applications, digital shops and digitilazed forms of everything around us makes me think right now when I’m writing this blog, that is the course we are heading with digi-driven world such a good thing. Should we stop for a moment and think – think is this the way.
Self-reflection
Sailing in the vast database that the internet provides can be troublesome. What site, platform or application do I choose to rely on? Which application is worth my time, does a platform suit my needs and does a chosen site has their data safety on required level? These questions rose from Digi Citizen section.
Privacy was the main topic in this section for me. This course opened a data safety lock in my mind. It made me think the way I have used the internet to this point and how should I use the internet from this point, with the little extra knowledge this course offered.