2014 European Commission Innovation Conventio EUROCITIES Cities & ICT – innovation and participation Presentation by George Niland Brussels – 11 March 2014
May 07, 2015
2014 European Commission Innovation Convention
EUROCITIES
Cities & ICT – innovation and participation
Presentation by George Niland
Brussels – 11 March 2014
Networking
EUROCITIES ForumsCOOPERATIONChaired by the city of Nantes
Culture Forum
Chaired by the city of Bologna
Economic Development Forum
Chaired bythe city of Liverpool
Environment Forum
Chaired by the city of Birmingham
Knowledge Society Forum
- Chaired by the city of Ghent- Vice-chair is city of Manchester
Mobility Forum
Chaired by the city of Mannheim
Social Affairs Forum
Chaired by the city of The Hague
EUROCITIES Over 130 full members in 34 countries, representing 120m citizens 43 associate members and partners Most European capital cities are members
EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum
Priorities o Smart Citizens o Co-creation for innovation, transparency and business o IT development for smart governance
4 Working groupso Smart Citieso Open Datao E-Inclusiono Cybersecurity
o WG on innovation
Some of the Challenges facing our cities
Considerable population growth, social issues
Environmental & transport pressures
Constrained budgets
Have to stay competitive and achieve sustainable growth while ensuring good quality of life for all citizens.
Citizens are increasingly ‘internet citizens’, who expect city services to be available online.
We need to bridge the gap between the expectation of our constantly connected citizens and the services offered by cities
There is a need to develop improved, more efficient online public services, keep up with tech innovation and increase transparency by developing more open forms of government.
Great Expectations
Foster innovation, new businesses and economic growth
Foster social and digital inclusion
Improve sustainable mobility (e.g. real time public transport information, traffic flows)
Develop new services to measure and cut GHG emissions and change energy behaviour
Increase government transparency and citizen participation
Activate and strengthen quadruple helix co-creation (research, government, industry, civil society)
Cities enabling new services & citizen participation
The enabling tools
Digital strategy incorporated across the whole city administration
New E-government services
Open data
Co-creation and User driven open innovation
Smart Cities strategies and projects and Future Internet enabled services -the city as a testbed
Procurement of new technologies, e.g. cloud services
From This
To This
Heritage Eye
Creating an open innovation ecosystem
Living Labs
Crowdsourcingideas, Participatory platforms
Open data,Open data portal
face2face engagement
App developers
Cityadministration
industryCivil society and Citizens
University, researchers,innovation agencies
Hackathons, data days
Business incubators
City level - Need for clear policy and strategic aims
Developing clear open data and open innovation strategies
Need business cases and proof of value
Champions and supporters at city strategy level
Resources and Funding
EU level – replication and scale-up
EUROCITIES Open Data Working Group
EUROCITIES Open Data Guidebook – overview
Challenges and solutions, Organizational and technical process of opening data
Builds on and utilises the knowledge and experiences of our member cities
The value of open data and relevance to issues such as smart cities, innovation, citizen involvement.
Best practice examples
Link: http://bit.ly/Mr19xw