The document discusses the rise of smart cities and digital communities. It notes that there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Smart communities, made up of public/private sectors, citizens, entrepreneurs, and academia, are what make cities smart. Digital communities are driven by entrepreneurship, citizen empowerment, open data, social innovation, and collaboration. They are transforming cities through networking at events like the Smart City Expo.

1. Smart City
Smart / Digital Communities
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Congress
Director
© Götz Keller
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2. Technology …..
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3. Technology …..
Ericsson & CISCO estimation:
50 billions of connected
terminals in 2020
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Billions of users
Millions of Apps
Users of apps by mobithinking:
1.2 billions 2012
2.4 billions 2017
Trillions of “Things”

4. Technology ….. + People  Digital communities
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”Cities are shaped by people,
their culture and their values”
Smart Communities make Smart Cities
Bangkok: Khao San Road

5. Smart Communities make Smart Cities
Public Sector
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Entrepreneurs
Private Sector
Citizenship
Civil Society
Academy

6. Share
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Entrepreneurship
Digital
Communities
Citizen
empowerment Open Data
Social
Innovation
Collaborative

7. Entrepreneurship, Collaborative / Copenhagen
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9. Innovative, Creative, Collaborative

10. Industry - Cities - Society

11. DIGITAL FABRICATION ATHENAEUMS
SUPPORTED BY BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL

13. Citizen Empowerment
High Line Park - NYC

14. Social Innovation / Medellín

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Sharing, sharing, sharing …

17. Helsinki + Amsterdam + Barcelona

18. Digital Communities,
the driver of urban transformation
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Entrepreneurship
Citizen
empowerment
Open Data
Share
networking
Social
Innovation
Collaborative

19. Smart City Expo, networking of Digital Communities

21. @pilarconesa
Thanks for your attention!