The competition looked for solutions that improve business opportunities and create new environment-friendly business

Tekes, Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, launched the Green ICT competition in October 2010. The competition looked for solutions that improve business opportunities and create new environment-friendly business. MHG's idea, Development of Global Sustainable Monitoring System for Feedstock Supply Chain Management. Case Study Rebuplic of Ghana, was selected (together with the ideas from Mitron Oy and Academica/Helsingin Energia) as the best solution from the 31 solutions submitted to the corporate competition. In addition to Tekes, the jury consisted of representatives from the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Motiva Oy, Finnish Federation for Communications and Teleinformatics (FiCom) and Tietoviikko.

The evaluation focused on the functionality, appropriateness and impressiveness of the overall solution with regard to utilising green ICT more extensively. The evaluation criteria emphasised the following: the business viability of the idea, realisation of the environmental and climate-related objectives, improving efficient use of materials and energy, possibility of replicating the solution, effects on the development of productivity and quality of services, and the cooperation between the private and public sector. ”MHG's proposed solution meets all aforementioned criteria. The goal of the solution is to build a MHG Bioenergy ERP service that fits into Ghanaian business environment and that can be used to monitor all types of biomasses and also to manage supply chains”, says the managing director Seppo Huurinainen. ”We also have an excellent team with specialists from Ghana's Ministry of Energy and other companies operating in the Ghanaian energy industry”, Huurinainen points out. The key Ghanain persons, doctor Adebayo Abgejule from the Vaasa Polytechnic and the African Business Developer Eric Buah from MHG Systems, are very happy that they can say: ”Now we have real chance of promoting energy-related projects in Ghana and Africa using MHG's tools and with the help of funding coming from Tekes and other partners”.

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Martti Korkiakoski
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Seppo Huurinainen
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MHG Systems Ltd
MHG Systems Ltd is one of the world's leading suppliers of Bioenergy ERP systems. The company utilises its partner network to produce customer-oriented IT and map service solutions designed for developing Bioenergy and field work business operations. The company’s services bring significant cost savings and environmental benefits to all operators in the delivery and production chains. With MHG Systems' services the companies can verify their social and environmental responsibilities, as the origin and the carbon dioxide emissions of the shipments can be reliably proven and all costs and earnings are available for scrutiny. MHG Systems' ERP services merge mobile communication, Internet,GIS, NFC, RFID, satellite-based location information, CO2 and moisture monitoring technologies into one business-enhancing service, and allows the use of new and empowering operational models and real-time enterprise resource planning.

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