The goal should be to improve the quality of legislative work. This requires the analytical utilization of an increasing amount of information. It is very important to ensure the free use of databases as much as possible. The Finnish Parliament has made its own work more open in many ways. Parliamentary documents including stages of handling and speeches are available to all citizens on Parliament's website.
Citizens can thus follow the handling of bills and their own MPs' activities over the Internet.
Finland has already made the shift so that legislation proceeds from bill to printed law in electronic registers without having to be changed to paper form. The Government's agendas are no longer distributed on paper, but in electronic form on our intranet. This entire preparation and decision-making chain has not yet been opened for Internet use, but this is technically possible. Projects started by the Government can in fact be monitored on the Internet using a separate register. The biggest obstacle to utilizing the opportunities offered by new technology is the clinging to old operating models.