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Information about Opasnet

Opasnet is a wiki-based website and workspace for helping societal decision making. The website collects, synthesises, and distributes people's values and scientific information. Opasnet welcomes anyone who wants to promote science-based decision-making in any field. The speciality is that the information is structured for both scientific scrutiny and for policy use at the same time. In practice, you can do original research, store data, make models, and perform policy assessments and discuss all of that work in one workspace. Originally, the developers of Opasnet came from the environmental health, i.e. a research field that studies the impacts of environment on human health. We are actively working, among other things, on climate change and air pollution, but you can also start a new assessment about a decision of your own interest, or participate in an existing assessment.

Learn from and participate in Opasnet

• Welcome to Opasnet
• Opasnet
• Open assessment
• What is improved by Opasnet and open assessment?
• Contributing to Opasnet
• Frequently asked questions about Opasnet
• Databases and modelling in Opasnet

We can only help decision making if a large group of people participate in the work. Find your own ways to contribute and act!

Recent recommendations

• Swine flu vaccination in Finland was better than not vaccinating anyone even when narcolepsy is included in the assessment
• Most likely you should not take iodine tablets because of Fukushima nuclear accident
• Fish is healthy despite persistent pollutants in it
• Radon in indoor air is a major health problem. If living in certain areas, you should consider actions.

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Portals

• By topic:
  • Portal:Climate change
  • Portal:Persistent pollutants
  • Portal:Air pollution
• By user:
  • Portal:Open Assessors' Network
• By information type:
  • Portal:Open assessments
  • Portal:Variables (science-based answers to any questions)
  • Portal:Data (data about several topics for modelling)

Current issues

• A Tutorial on R
• Fukushima nuclear accident studies
• Decision analysis and risk management course (28 Feb - 12 Apr 2011)
• Opasnet wins WSA Finland award in e-Government & Institutions category
• Burden of disease by environmental stressors in Europe (EBoDE)
• Burden of disease in Finland (Seturi)

Active assessments

• Assessments that need new participants

• Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring and salmon intake (2017-09-08 13:41:39)
• User:Edem Agbenowu (2017-08-28 11:46:05)
• Congestion charge (2017-06-15 22:42:17)
• File:Use of risk assessment in the society.ppt (2017-03-02 11:49:00)
• Immigration assessment (2016-05-27 13:22:32)
• Transition Cities / Helsinki (2016-04-06 03:19:25)
• Tendering process for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (2016-03-23 11:33:57)
• Great game of Turkey (2016-03-04 21:44:40)
• Helsinki energy decision 2015 (2016-01-27 13:39:07)
• Open science and research roadmap 2014–2017 (2016-01-11 16:53:13)

• Assessment on the government program 2011 in Finland (in Finnish)
• Assessment on progressive value added tax (in Finnish)
• Information policy of a research institute (in Finnish)
• Nuclear energy in Finland (in Finnish)

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