Pekka Tuominen is a social and cultural anthropologist specialising in urban transformation, sociocultural qualities of space and citizen participation. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, for Collective Intelligence Through Digital Tools (COLDIGIT). In COLDIGIT he explores innovative tools and spaces for collective intelligence, in which the public sector can collaborate with private and third sector organizations, as well as with other civil society actors, in order to mobilize CI to address societal challenges. He also works for the Business Finland supported Co-creation Radar project to develop ways to enhance citizen participation in urban contexts globally.