Working Group Smart Cities – FIREBALL Summary March 2012

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Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems for Future Internet Research & Implemetation – Empowered by Smart Citizens!

Dave Carter, City of ManchesterWP3 Lead, Roadmap for Smart Cities

Future Internet Research and Experimentation By Adopting Living Labs – towards Smart Cities


What can Smart Cities be about?• Usage of digital spaces and technologies to enhance the city and city

life

• Digital dimensions of cities – the new intelligence of cities

• Future Internet as medium & catalyst for organizing collective intelligence of cities

• Local Digital Agendas to promote future city innovation strategies

• Smart people and smart technologies: making cities become smarter together


Key drivers from Smart Cities of Future Internet Open Innovation.• Socio-economic ambitions of large cities / city marketing• Need for connectedness (cities – rural areas – regions)• Next generation access deployment experiences, need for

applications pull after the infrastructure• Technology push: need to create experimentation environments

to stimulate innovation


Topics addressed 1(3)

Creation of synergies and cooperation among different research and innovation communities related to the Future Internet



Identification and access to common assets for Connected Smart Cities Innovation exploring Future Internet opportunities



Creation of a Connected Smart Cities Innovation Network of advanced Smart Cities in Europe – exploring challenges about how open innovation can support the uptake of Future Internet-enabled services in Smart Cities

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Connected Smart Cities in Europe – FIREBALL examples

The Helsinki Open Future Internet innovation ecosystem

The Smart City vision of Manchester – Local Digital Agenda

Smart Energy of Amsterdam

A business eco-system of Smart Grids of Lisboa

Digital spaces and ICT to enhance the city life of Barcelona


FIREBALL network organisationsCore partners:Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Aalto University Economics, European Society of Concurrent Enterprising Network, Manchester City Council, Amsterdam Innovation Motor, ESADE Business School, Alfamicro, Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Lisboa E-Nova, City of Helsinki, INRIA, Dimes, IBBT, URENIO, University of Oulu, Media and Network cluster, Barcelona City Council

Supporting partners:City of Brussels, City of Stockholm, City of Nice, City of Luleå, City of Oulu, Region of Sicily, City of Agueda, Project Panlab


Expected results from FIREBALL• A European-wide community of Future Internet Innovation

constiuencies (FIRE, Living Labs and Smart Cities)

• A common vision and shared agenda by these constiuencies

• Showcases to represent innovative uses and future needs of Future Internet in Smart Cities

• Identifying common concepts, methodologies, tools and processes enabling collaborative working for Future Internet

Innovation

• A sustainable Connected European Smart Cities Network

• A roadmap and action plan for exploring Future Internet Innovation for Smart Cities


Meet up 2012

January: FIREBALL with European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and EUROCITIES KSF in Brussels

March: FIREBALL at KSF Smart Cities WG in Berlin

May 9th/10th: FIREBALL with Smart Cities Portfolio Working Group and Future Internet PPP (FI-PP) at Future Internet Assembly in Aalborg, Denmark

May 22nd-23rd: FIREBALL at ”User-driven Open Innovation ecosystems: go really local – across borders” special event organised by EU projects APOLLON, FIREBALL and Open Cities with ENoLL and EUROCITIES in collaboration with EC DG INFSO in Mechelen (near Brussels), Belgium.

Future Internet Research & Experimentation By Adopting Living Labs

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Future Connected Smart Cities Network• Roadmap development – essential feedback

needed• Collaboration between networks• Funding for future Smart Cities projects• CIP, FP7, Horizon 2020 …………

• Policy initiatives and advocacy• Green Digital Charter, Digital Agenda etc.

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