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The ecosystem agreement of the city of Rovaniemi emphasizes Arctic tourism and future welfare services. Few mentioned development targets are new-age tourism and the utilization of digitalization in nature and sports tourism. There are many sports and cultural destinations around the city of Rovaniemi, the location information and accessibility of which should be brought out in new and interesting ways, so that they encourage as many people as possible to get moving. FrostBit will design this digital service concept during 2024.
In the project “Designing digitalization of sports and cultural destinations”, the application concept for Rovaniemi’s sports and cultural destinations is planned. During the project, public and private sector actors are gathered together to innovate content for the application/service. The main measures of the project include:
Discussion and Innovation event in Korundi: Digitizing and Gamifying Exercise and Culture in Rovaniemi
In the project, we organized a hybrid workshop in May 2024, where we gathered actors from many fields, including tourism, sports, technology and culture. The workshop included presentations on the possibilities and challenges of gamified solutions in outdoor exercise, an entrepreneur speaker, and an innovation section, where we discussed together Rovaniemi as a field of opportunities and public actors as a supporter of companies in the development of new growth.
Stories from the Rovaniemi Riverside -Route:
In the Rovaniemi smart exercise routes to support the well-being of locals and tourists -project, a story-based walking route to the Rovaniemi riverside was produced. The goal was to create attraction for the “small bridges run” in the form of a cultural-historical walk. The route was created in the new Etiäinen application by the city of Rovaniemi. You can listen to the story told by Nätti-Jussi by scanning QR code tiles along the route.
Specialist Blog in Pohjoisen Tekijät:
How to increase the appeal of Rovaniemi’s sports and cultural destinations with Digital Means? (FI)
The blog discusses the use of gamification in geospatial applications and the power of a developer network in an Innocities-project.
Specialist Article in the FrostBit Publications:
Looking for a home for the digital concept – surveying examples, data sources and platforms (FI)
The article examines from a technical point of view the search for platforms for geospatial applications and alternatives for enabling game-like implementations.
Article in the publication series of the Arctic Sport network:
Dreaming of a geospatial application concept as a gamified playground for exercise and culture (FI)
The article discusses the development of an application concept that would make local sports and cultural historical sites more attractive through gamification. Conceptualization processes are considered in the development network’s operations.
Designing the Concept for Digitalizing Exercise and Cultural Destinations
1.1.2024 – 31.12.2024
73 338 €
Tuuli Nivala
We will devise an application/service concept with the project partners and create a developer network for defining the future of the concept. We will cooperate closely with other sports and cultural development and networking projects during 2024, and organize activities for the project, to which those interested in the subject are welcome! So follow FrostBit’s and Lapland UAS channels, where we will communicate about the project activities throughout the year.