The document discusses the transition toward smart cities, emphasizing the need for municipalities to engage in virtual spaces and the importance of innovation and interaction in urban development. It highlights the challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in accessing resources and infrastructure for innovation. The strategy promotes a holistic approach to city planning that prioritizes human experience and community engagement.

1. Changingspaces
Creating a smart city

2. Digital UrbanStrategist
Digital Urban Designer

3. UrbanGeographer
International Economist
Entrepreneur
Developedseveral fiber networks
Developedcity-wifinetwork
Creative industries
Establishment and Investements
City marketing

5. More people in the worldown a phonethan a
toothbrush
Peoplewatch 150 times a day at theirphone. A
chain smoker 60 times a day at a pack of
cigarettes

8. Livelycity centers?
Notnecessaryforpurchasesanymore?
You go thereforfun / experience
But whatifnobody is in the city center?

9. Fromindustrialtoindividual

11. Municipalities act in physical public space,
Public space is widelyinfluencedby internet,
But municipalities do notactivelyplay a rolein virtual space?

12. Cities focus on bricks
Cities are poorly present in
online communities

13. We live in a world of
communities,
notmunicipalities

14. Internet is the key
changemaker andwill
continue to shake the world
we know

15. "We
can'tsolveproblemsby
using the same kind
of thinking we
usedwhen we
createdthem."

17. Society (Demographics e.g.)
Environment
Economics
Create a Need for
New Services
Environment, Health, Entertainment, City Services, Social
Create a Need for
New Business Models and Eco-systems
Create a Need for
Innovation
Comes in two ways
Technology Organization
AND ARE ONE

18. Need
• Toretainlivelycity centers
• Vibrant localeconomy
• Innovationeco-systems
• sustainability

19. The City as a holosticexperience
Experiencedriveninstead of
environment, energyetc.

20. • Many smart cities focus on energy andbuildan
Urban OS
• Ourprojects focus on smart people and
interaction.
• Maketechnologyhuman

21. Create a platform
forinnovationandactivatecitizens
Frominfrastructurefocusedto a
strategic part of urbandevelopment
Fullyintegratedphysical, economicand digital master
planning
Internet-basedinnovationeco-system

22. Projects
Focus on :
1. Infrastructure (access)
We focus on SMEs but access to means forinnovation is limited. Large
corporationsownand control infrastructures. Investmentscosts are to high
formanySMEs. We createinnovation platform forSMEs
MAKE TECHNOLOGY HUMAN
2. Interaction
Engagement is a keyto change the eco-systems. We neednewwaysto
communicate. A city is a center of human interaction.

23. Create
• A platform forinnovation
• Infrastructurefor new eco-systems
smarth growth, through an economy based on
knowledge and a broad concept of innovation. The
strategy emphasizes growth in small and medium
sized businesses and microbusinesses, and the
establishing of networks and infrastructure for
small actors. (Fireball)

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