Mika Honkanen
Chief Specialist at European Commission
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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SeniorMika Honkanen is a Chief Specialist based in Helsinki with a decade of experience building the digital infrastructure that powers public services, particularly through APIs, interoperability, and open data. He leads work on Finland’s Population Information System and previously spearheaded the national open data portal opendata.fi, promoting reuse across the public sector and shaping EU data policy as a member of the Public Sector Information Expert Group. Mika combines technical stewardship with ecosystem-building—coaching hackathons, supporting startups, and observing accountability processes at ICANN—to bridge policy, standards, and implementation. Known for practical expertise in data semantics, CKAN, and MyData research, he quietly focuses on making government data both machine-readable and useful to businesses and citizens.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
ckan-extension9
api9
openapi8
ckan8
open-data8
portal8
interoperability8
application-profile7
linked-open-data5
dcat4
glossary4
creative-commons4
tax4
exchange3
ansible3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Mygee/omasivusto
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
okffi/open-api-definition
Oct 2015 - Dec 2019
Community governed definition of open API
Contributions:152 commits, 8 PRs, 152 pushes in 4 years 2 months
apidefinitionopenapiopen-api
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