Sustainable Urban Development of Chisinau: Unlocking Smart City Investment Opportunities through “Green City Lab

1. Sustainable Urban Development of Chisinau: Unlocking Smart
City Investment Opportunities through “Green City Lab”
April 18, 2018
February 26, 2016

2. Main challenges
Shrinking resources Low citizen trust
Complex city
development issues

3. Lab’s mission
Transformation of the
processes, skills and
policies within Chisinau
City Hall
Seeking the solutions to
wicked development
challenges through
engagement with
stakeholders
Change of wider
culture of local
authorities

4. Lab’s journey
Defining service lines
Stakeholders engagement
Idea generation
Experimentation
Prototyping
Testing and piloting
Local authorities ownership
Finance for scale
Translation into policies
Unpack the issues
Actors mapping
Partnerships
Political sponsorship
Leadership
Network analysis
Ownership

5. Services and tools
Mapping specific challenges aligned
with the City Hall priorities
Data scraping, analysis and review
Stakeholders engagement, challenge
prizes
Foresight
Systems mapping (Strategic design
and Human-centred design)
Behavioural insights
Mapping options for solutions
testing, access to local/global
solutions

6. Are we the only ones?
Smart City Lab (Estonia)
Positioned as a cluster project in several
cities, supported by the Government, the
Lab works on ICT in different actions and
processes of the cities, healthcare, social
welfare, energy saving. Generally assists
cities and companies to experiment in city
environment.
Smart City Lab (Amsterdam)
Positioned outside municipal authorities,
the Lab facilitates smart city projects in
Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, in the area
of social inclusion: energy transition, circle
economy.
22@Barcelona (Spain)
Functions as a municipal society, created
by Barcelona City Council and fully
financed from public budget, the Lab is one
of the most ambitious urban transformation
project - from industrial to urban productive
(200 ha of land).
City Skopje Lab (Macedonia)
Functions as an UNDP project, counterpart:
Mayor’s Cabinet; the Lab works on
improving the communication between
citizens and the city, and redesigning public
services.

7. Current status
Adapted from the presentation Advancing INNOVATION For Asia and the Pacific, prepared by UNDP
Asia Pacific

8. Adapted from the presentation Advancing INNOVATION For Asia and the Pacific, prepared by UNDP
Asia Pacific

9. Next steps
Launch
• Institutional place
• Human resources
• Skills and capacities
• Service lines
• Experimentation
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Operationalization
• Civic engagement (crowdsourcing
and idea generation with citizens
and public servants)
• First pilots and recommendations
for scale-up
Reinforcement
• Fundraising
Self-sustainability &
institutionalization
• Case studies (various scenarios
for institutionalization and self-
sustainability
• Recommendation for the most
sustainable form of legal entity.