ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic challenged the Finnish society in terms of economic, institutional, and social aspects. Private entrepreneurs could apply for funding to convert their products into digital format or develop digital platforms. The digitalisation of public services has been ongoing for years, but institutional change is slow and has tendency to resist the change. Resilience overall is described as ability to recover from a shock. The public administration has been slowly introducing different digital services for a long time, but their popularity amongst citizens has not been huge. The topographic data in Finland provided by the National Land Survey is open, and it has been used in different new location based applications to provide new commercial services. Location information had also one totally new form or role during the past few months in Finland, and it was the distinction between ‘us' and ‘them', based on where people were living.
