This document discusses challenges facing cities and a vision for smart cities of the future. It emphasizes the importance of cities being transparent, collaborative, and integrated with their ecosystems. Cities need to attract businesses, citizens, and tourists while improving efficiency with budget and resource constraints. The document also highlights specific challenges around energy efficiency, youth involvement, mobility, and social cohesion and calls for approaches using data, platforms, and engaged citizens to address these issues in an open and collaborative manner.

6. ATTRACTIVE TRANSPARENT
& COLLABORATIVE
INTEGRATED WITH HIS
ECOSYSTEME
In order to keep up
with evolution, a
city must attract
businesses,
investors, citizens,
tourists ...
In a world where the
digital becomes the
main information
channel, the
administration has to
be transparent and
collaborative.
The city has a role
to play in terms of
public health
education,
innovation ...
EFFICIENT CLOSE TO THE CITIZEN
Faced with
budgetary and HR
constraints,
authorities need to
increase their
efficiency.
Citizens and local
businesses are
now customers of
the city with
expectations that
have to be met.
STARTS FROM THE GOALS OF THE CITY THAT WANTS TO BE...

7. AND HIS MAINS CHALLENGES
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY OF
PUBLIC
BUILDINGS
YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN
THE PUBLIC DEBATE /
POLICY
DESERTIFICATION
URBAN CENTRES
MOBILITY AND
LAST MILES
DELIVERY
SOCIAL LINK LESS
PRESENT IN
QUARTERS
Some examples

8. BUT DON’T FORGET

9. What do we need?
PLATFORMS DATA
ENGAGED
CITIZENS

11. Avoid « Silo » Platforms to adopt an ecosystem approach
NOKIA
CISCO

12. APIs as Enabler
FIWARE

13. APIs are nice … but may turn evil
FIWARE

14. We need APIs + common data models
Collaboration between cities and private sector is key!
FIWARE
Khanna

16. • Civil Complaint Data
• Transportation Data
• Census Data
• Sensor Data
• Social Medio Data
• CCTV
• Backend City Data
• Third party Data
• …

17. Microsof

18. Big Data & SmartCities

19. Smart Cities need Smart Citizens

20. www.fablabs.io/maps

22. SAP
• Do not give away your data!
• Have a collaborative approach with
your ecosystem and others cities
• Interoperability is key!
• Guidelines, principles provide
structure and coordination without
regulation
• Specific Soft Skills are needed
• Data quality is more important than
quantity of data
• Citizen participation for activating
Open Data usage

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