The Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) initiative is a global network of over 120 cities from 25+ countries working to establish common standards for smart city data sharing and services. OASC was founded in 2015 in Brussels and aims to build a global smart city market through lightweight implementation of open data services using common technologies. It is structured with a Board of Directors, Working Groups, city-led Council, and partnerships with other organizations. OASC has developed Models of Interoperability to facilitate data sharing across cities and open up new markets for smart city solutions while avoiding vendor lock-in.

1. Building a global smart city market
from the demand-side out
An introduction to MIMs

2. IMEC smart cities: from city to global
City of Things: local innovation
o IoT + living lab
Smart Flanders: regional collaboration
o Data sharing
OASC: global interoperability
o Market building
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3. Basics
Global smart city network
Founded 2015 in Brussels with a first wave of 31 cities from 7
countries
120+ cities from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia,
Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland,
Slovenia, Spain, and Uruguay.
Focused on light-weight implementation of open data services
using common standards, technologies, and architectures

4. Who is OASC
Incorporated as non-profit in December 2017
Based in Brussels, Belgium
4 founding partners:
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5. Structure
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Board of
Directors
Chair: Martin Brynskov
Aarhus University
Working
Groups
Mobility, Standards,…
Projects
H2020, EIT
Partnerships
EIP-SCC, TM Forum, FIWARE,
AIOTI, Eurocities,…
Events
CSCC, IOT4SCC, SCEWC,…
Management
CEO: Davor Meersman
OASC
Council of
Cities
Chair: Bart Rosseau
City of Ghent
120+
Cities
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National
Network
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7. Smart
mobility
Smart
living
Smart
government
Smart
environment
Smart
economy
Smart
people
citizens
government
research
business
Quadruple helix

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ALL HAVE AND NEED DATA
ALWAYS
ANYWHERE

9. Interoperability points and MIMs
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10. MIMs
Formally adopted by global community of 120+
cities in 25+ countries
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11. Interoperability Points
MIM
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MIM
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MIM
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12. One City is Not a Market
(MIMs to the rescue)
For companies
MIMs open up a global market of smart cities.
Develop cheaply, deploy often.
For cities
MIMs avoid vendor lock-in, and help local
innovations achieve global impact.
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19. Save the Date
17-21 Jun ‘19: IoT Week (Aarhus)
OASC Calendar: https://oascities.org/events
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20. Thank you!
Reach out to us:
www.oascities.org
Twitter: @oascities
dr. Davor Meersman
CEO
davor@oascities.org