Barcelona is building a smart city through digital transformation and citizen participation. It is developing open data infrastructure, participatory platforms like Decidim, and sensor networks like Sentilo to power services, transparency and innovation. The city aims to foster equitable outcomes through initiatives like affordable housing and healthcare, sustainable mobility, and empowering citizens with digital education, democracy and data sovereignty tools.

1. BARCELONA DIGITAL CITY
BUILDING THE SMART CITY FROM THE GROUND UP
WITH CITIZENS Tecnology and Digital Innovation Commissioner
@Francesca_bria
barcelona.cat/digital

2. Fostering the City’s digital
innovation ecosystem
Technologies to
transform Government
and the City
Open Source Agile
transformation of the City
Hall, improving urban
services
Develop a City Data
infrastructure to drive
innovation
Make in BCN: Diversifying the
tech economy towards a circular
city
Uban i-Lab: Facilitate SMEs/
startups access to procurement,
and promote good quality jobs.
Empowering citizens
Grow digital education and
digital inclusion programs
Facilitate large scale digital
democracy and data
sovereignty for citizens

3. 3
AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HEALTH CARE, SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY, ENERGY TRANSITION
GREEN SPACES- REDUCED CO2 EMISSIONS
Start with Citizens Challenges to improve city services
TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE CITY

4. 4
SMART, EQUITABLE, DEMOCRATIC CITIES

5. 5
Mission Themes
& Goals
Success
Measures
Delivery
Approach
Barcelona Agile Digital Transformation Strategy
A three years strategy to create new capabilities, replacing legacy

6. Technology Code of Practice
A
set
of
criteria
to
help
Barcelona
select
appropriate
open
technologies
and
define
the
commitments
to
open-­‐source,
open
standards,
interoperability,
security
and
transparency.
Technology Buying Handbook
A
set
of
guidelines
to
help
Barcelona
select
appropriate
open
technologies
and
technology
services
to
avoid
proprietary
lock-­‐in
and
closed
architectures.
Data Strategy
An
approach
to
handling
the
city’s
data
with
ownership,
privacy,
sovereignty
and
ethical
use
&
innova?on
at
the
core.
Defines
Data
architecture
and
infrastructure
for
Barcelona
at
City-­‐Scale
New Procurement Framework & Digital Marketplace
A
new
procurement
instrument
op?mized
for
buying
agile
services
from
pre-­‐evaluated
suppliers.
This
will
allow
more
efficient
procurement
cycles
and
reduce
supplier
risk.
Capability Plan & Hiring
An
approach
to
developing
and
maintaining
the
skill
and
capabili?es
required
for
delivering
digital
services
and
a
staffing
approach
for
securing
new
skills
in
the
short
term.
Digital Service Delivery Standard
A
set
of
criteria
to
help
Barcelona
create
and
run
good
&
agile
digital
services.
Services
will
be
consistent
and
of
high
quality.
OPEN SOURCE & AGILE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY

7. DECIDIM BARCELONA
PUBLIC, SOVEREIGN, DECENTRALISED DIGITAL
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DEMOCRACY
decidim.github.io/

9. Decidim
Barcelona
Emergence of network democracy
Democratic systems haven’t changed in 200 years
crisis of representative democracy in Europe & globally
Social networks are the new vehicle of political expression and
political participation
How can we design the new democratic institutions best suited to next
generation democracy - open, experimental, and able to tap into the
collective intelligence of citizens?

10. Decidim
Barcelona
Digital platform for participatory democracy
Decidim.Barcelona is the
Barcelona’s participatory
democracy platform: open source,
auditable, collaborative, trustable,
common.
It hosts participatory processes,
government strategic planning,
citizen initiatives, large scale
deliberation & other governance
services Online + offline hybrid
Propose, meet, deliberate, decide, monitor:
Join democracy

11. 11
CULTURE, URBAN PLANNING, PARTECIPATORY BUDGETING, MOBILITY,
CITIZEN INITIATIVES, COLLABORATIVE LEGISLATION
11 PARALLEL PARTECIPATORY PROCESSES

12. Decidim
Barcelona
decidim.barcelona
participatory strategic planning
a case study

13. Decidim
Barcelona
Participatory strategic planning
39.049 participants
10.860 proposals
1.467 action plans
15.021 physical participants
500+ meetings
1.700 organizations
165.121 supports
72,2% citizen proposals accepted
24.028 active users
230.000+ online interactions

14. Decidim
Barcelona
Decidim
Barcelona
10.860 proposals
1.467 action plans
~7000 accountable
projects
Participatory Strategic Planning
+72% acceptance rate

15. Decidim
Barcelona

16. Decidim
Barcelona
Proposals
Proposal
distribution
by subject and
categories

17. 17
OPEN AND PARTECIPATORY BUDGETING

18. 18
TECHNOLOGY FOR TRANSPARENCY AGAINST CORRUPTION

19. 19
BARCELONA OPEN DATA PORTAL

20. CITY DATA COMMONS
A NEW DEAL ON DATA

21. • Ethics & responsible innovation
• Data sovereignty & privacy
• Data Infrastructure at City-Scale
• Beyond Data: Information and
City Indicators
• Data quality and analytics
• New ownership regimes for data:
CITY DATA COMMONS
21
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION STARTS WITH DATA
A new city-level data strategy that has transparency, privacy,
security and ethical use of data for innovation at its core

22. BCN
Data
Ci>zens/Business/Academia/
communi>es
BCN
Data
Teams
Insight
Use
caees
Insight
BCN
Data
Analy>cs
Office
BCN
Agencies
BCN DATA COMMONS

23. 23
SENTILO- OPEN URBAN SENSOR PLATFORM
hQp://sen?lo.bcn.cat/connecta-­‐catalog-­‐web/component/map
10 typologies
Energy
Noise
Garbage
Meteo data
Parking
Air quality
Water meter
Bicycle flow
People flow
Vehicle flow
1.800 components/ devices
14.000 sensors/data items
30 sensor companies
3.000.000 records per day
1,62M
habitants
BCN
150.000
lampposts
40.000
garbage
containers
80.000
public
parking
spots
in
the
street

24. 24
SENTILO APPLICATIONS
10.000 sensors in
95 municipal buildings
55 solar thermal
installations
60 devices in
10city areas
50 devices in
3 city areas (Eixample, Sants, Sant Martí)
Energy monitoring Noise monitoring
Urban LabWater metering
10 meters

25. 25
SENTILO APPLICATIONS
1.900 sensors and
650 devices in
7 city areas
2.000 sensors and
450 devices in
Les Corts
Garbage collection Parking spots
• Proof of Concept with 485 components
installed in outdoor public parking
spaces in a specific area
• 1 company involved (Worldsensing)
• Proof of Concept with 670 components
installed in containers used by citizens
• 5 companies involved (ID&A, TST
Sistemas, Enevo, Urbiotica, Distromel)

26. 26
Mission:
Ac>onable
Insight
for
Barcelona
Government
1. Support
more
effec?ve
delivery
of
public
services
to
ci?zens
for
greater
equity,
safety,
and
quality
of
life
2. Grow
and
advance
Big-­‐Data
pilots
&
analy?cs
to
improve
decision-­‐making
and
ci?zens’
engagement
3. Promote
a
genuinely
collabora?ve
and
innova?ve
economy
MAYOR’S OFFICE FOR DATA ANALYTICS

27.
(EU project – next-generation collaborative economy platforms
Pilots BCN and Amsterdam)
27
DECENTRALIZED CITIZENS OWNED DATA ECOSYSTEM-

28. 28
EU DIGITAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
NEXT GENERATION PLATFORMS/ CHALLENGES & PRIZES (60ML€)

29. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
EDUCATION, INCLUSION, EMPOWERMENT

30. Digital Manufacturing for Youth Inclusion & Employment /
STEAM
FUTURE JOBS & SKILLS IN THE AGE OF AUTOMATION

31. BASIC INCOME EXPERIMENTS WITH CRYPTOCURRENCIES

32. Building the smart City
from the ground up with citizens