The document discusses using cities as laboratories for experimentation driven by innovation. It proposes using urban labs to test new solutions in real-life environments and involve citizens. Examples are provided of pilot projects tested in Barcelona's 22@Urban Lab across domains like environment, mobility, and telecom. The document advocates developing apps and platforms to connect citizens and reinvent citizenship through sharing and reusing data. It also proposes a common API called CitySDK to enhance development of smart city apps and their transfer between cities. Overall, the document promotes an open innovation approach in cities using ideas, living labs, open data, and networks to trigger new digital services and platforms.

2. The city as a laboratory
a place for experimentation driven by innovation
Esteve Almirall
ESADE
Business
School
esteve.almirall@esade,edu

3. Problem.-
Increasing { number
diversity}of services
Decreasing budgets
Opportunity.-
Re-invent cities (Smart Cities) . . .

4. Despite access to the same technologies applied by
these (private) innovators, our government had
historically failed to tap into the expertise of the
American people to help to solve our nation’s biggest
challenges.
Annesh
Chopra
U.S.A.
-­‐
CTO

5. 180.000 + jobs

6. Involving Citizens
& Constituencies
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Ex perim Labs
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7. Involving Citizens
& Constituencies
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marketplaces

10. Data
becomes
a
pla;orm
for
developers
to
create
apps
providing
unexpected
services
OPEN
DATA
-­‐
ECOSYSTEMS

11. a problem
How to provide an
increasing number and
diversity of ICT services
while fostering innovation
ecosystems?

12. The Old Way
1.0
you know
the way it’s done now

13. The New Way
Open Data
+
2.0 -> Citizen talent
+
Fame and fortune
=
?

14. unexpected results when
sharing data in Public
regon
transportation
tland-O Sleep soundly.
Por The iNap app will wake snoozing commuters as
their stop approaches.
Predict arrival.
The city doesn't provide live GPS tracking of its
trains and buses, but the app ArrivalTracker
uses an algorithm and city API data to predict
arrival times fairly well.
Portland's Tri-County Metropolitan
Transportation District was one of the first to
release actionable data, way back in 2008.
Fast Company, October 2011

15. unexpected results when
sharing data in Public
transportation
ton
os
Crowdsource trouble.
B OpenMBTA searches Twitter to relay what
problems riders are reporting.
Hear it straight.
How Fucked Is the T? bluntly sums up the
state of each subway line like a native
Bostonian would. Sample: If the Orange
Line's average wait time is 5.5 minutes, the
line "might be a little fucked.”
Massachusetts has more than 200 mobile
startups, which have developed dozens of
transit apps for navigating the finicky
Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority.
Fast Company, October 2011

16. unexpected results when
sharing data in Public
transportation
York
ew
Come and go efficiently.
N Exit Strategy NYC lets subway riders fulfill
the eternal Gotham need: leave and enter
stations at the most convenient staircases.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority
has released limited data, so app
development is slow. But that may change.
The MTA's App Quest contest will give a
combined $15,000 in prizes to transit app
developers. Winners are announced
November 1.
Fast Company, October 2011

17. Civic Ecosystem Civic
Data Apps Innovation
Innovator Profit-
Catalog Contests Marketplace
Networks non profit

18. Learn
locally
to
compete
globally
EXPERIMENTATION
–
URBAN
LABS

19. Urban Labs = Test spaces in the
middle of the city
Urban Labs = The City as a Urban
Laboratory
Urban Labs = Urban Living labs
Urban Labs = Real-life
experimentation
with users in Cities

20. Urban
Labs
–
Living
Labs
Example: Urbiotica pilot - Barcelona
8 containers for:
Trash
Paper
Glass
Plastics

21. A Barcelona experience: Urban Lab
Pilots
Some results
 Starting date: 2008
 Pilot proposals received: 43 pilot proposals
 Pilot tested or testing actually: 14 pilots
 Domains: Enviroment, Mobility, Telecom, …
Some of the pilot projects that have been trialled to date are:
 Implementation of 12 outdoor public street lighting points Eco Digital with LED
technology. 2009
 Implementation of 2 charging points for electric cars. 2009
 Pilot trial of 1 electrically and solar powered motorbike . 2010
 Traffic control cameras. 2008
 Metering: gas, electricity and water meters without presence.2009
 Fibre optics in homes (FTTH) . 2008
 Bicycle lanes. 2008
 Presence sensors for the public parking payment areas. 2010
 Barcelona Noise-map. 2010
 Among others…
Promoció Econòmica

22. FASTPRK - Parking Sensors (30) - Worldsensing
When we thought that the system was operative we
tested it in the 22@Urban Lab. Testing in real-life
environments allowed us to improve aspects that
we couldn't even think of in the lab. The Urban Lab
has been our best laboratory.
Jordi Llosa- Development officer Worldsensing

23. SIIUR - LED Lighting Pilot (12) - Arelsa, Circuitor,
Santa&Cole, e-Control, Prysmian, Semal
The SIIUR experience allowed us the development
of the SmartTower, a new family of electrical boxes
for Smart Cities.
Anna Urbiztondo - Project Development Director - SECE

24. SIIUR - LED Lighting Pilot (12) - Arelsa, Circuitor,
Santa&Cole, e-Control, Prysmian, Semal
Because of the pilot and the experience acquired
in the Urban Lab, Eindhoven chose SIIUR for
environmentally sustainable city lighting in
one of the main districts of the city.
Gemma Batlle- TIC Cluster Director - BDigital

25. Urban Labs
1.- To develop innovative products taking
advantage of real-life environments and
involving citizens in design, proof of
service and proof of business validation.
2.- Bridge the cognitive distances between city
administrations and innovative companies.
3.- Create an initial demand & provide a
showcase for innovative solutions.
- learn locally, compete globally-

26. ConnecCng
ciCzens,
reinvenCng
ciCzenship,
sharing,
reusing,
finding,
…
apps

30. An
App
Becomes
a
Pla;orm
ADOPT-­‐A-­‐WHATEVER…

32. 1
App.
7
CiEes.
Many
Uses.
Boston,
MA
Honolulu,
HI
SeaJle,
WA
Norfolk,
VA
Chicago,
IL
Bloomington,
IN
Buenos
Aires,
ArgenCna
And
more
everyday…

35. Open
InnovaCon
in
the
Public
Sector
OPEN
CITIES

36. Objectives
1) Explore how to approach Open & User Driven
Innovation Methodologies in the Public
Sector, particularly Smart Cities.
ü Best Practices.
ü Innovation Management in the Public
Sector.
ü Platform governance.
2) Trigger Rich Internet Services & Platforms
through four mechanisms.
ü Ideas -– Crowdsourcing.
ü Living Labs -–Urban Labs.
ü Data - Open Data (static & dynamic-Sensors).
ü Networks - Open FTH networks.

37. Helsinki
Berlin Senate !
Fraunhofer FOKUS
City of Amsterdam
NESTA Berlin Dutch
Amsterdam !
Cap Digital
Paris
Institut Telecom
ESADE
Barcelona Activa
Atos Origin
Rome
UPF – Univ. Pompeu Fabra !
Barcelona DotOpen
Tempos21
!

38. !

39. Code
for
Europe
COMMONS
4
EUROPE

44. A
Common
API
for
Europe
CITY
SDK

45. CitySDK
Reason:
Enhance the development capability
and between-city transfer of Smart
City Applications.
Service Development Kit for the pan-
European City:
A Software Toolkit and APIs,
example Applications and Widgets,
relevant guidelines, processes -
open source
Cities benefit from a healthy
developer ecosystem (like tech
companies, eg. Apple, Nokia,
Microsoft, Google)
44

46. Why ?

47. Service Platform
- govs. - orchestrators
Providers
resources to regulate resources to leverage on
(zero-sum game) (non zero-sum game)

48. Service Platform
- govs. - orchestrators
Providers
developed in-house co-developed
always fall short with users, communities
high-cost free and not-free
no sharing empowering entrepreneurship
local offer driven by innovation
fragmented stimulating growth

49. Service - govs.- Platform
Providers orchestrators

50. esteve almirall
esteve.almirall@esade.edu