Marijke van Hees, portefeuillehouder Digitale Steden Agenda in de G32, riep tijdens Smart City 2013 op 29 mei 2013 alle Europese partijen op om gezamenlijk de vernieuwing van Europa in te zetten.

1. Digital City Agenda
How bottom-up innovation leads
to change at the top
MARIJKE VAN HEES
Chairman Stedenlink
G32 - File holder DSA
DSA - City Counsel Enschede Caring City

2. DSA MOVES!
• Announced May 2011
• An initiative from Stedenlink, G32, G4 and Platform 31
• From 8 at the start to 30+ active cities in 2013 , with support from
Ministry of Economic Affairs and many other partners
• DSA-Agreement between cities en Ministry of Economic Affairs,
signed 6 march 2013
• Goal: gaining social and economic benefits through innovative use of
ICT and broadband
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 2

3. HOW WE WORK
• Bring parties together (triple helix)
• Get cooperation and implementation going
• Stimulate participation and distribution of results
• Help find solutions for social issues of this time
• Institutional change, make our top-down systems more
client- and demand-orientated
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 3
Change will not
come if we wait
for some other
person or some
other time.
We are the ones
we’ve been
waiting for.
We are the
change that we
seek.
(Barack Obama)

4. Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 4
Scaleadvatage
Social profit
Uniqueness,
Distinctiveness
Optimalisation Social effectivity
Commonality
Efficient
Business as Usual
Effective & Efficient
Effective
2. ‘FRANCHISE’
• Genericity where
possible
• Learn more from each
other
• Based on Grand
Design
• Collective benefit
1. ‘BASICS’
• Own business first
• All acoording the
framework
• A lot of ‘coöperation’
• Individual profit
4. 'INNOVATION’
• More with Less
• Re-invent oneself
• ICT is catalyst
• Social benefit
3. ‘YOUR
MUNICIPALITY’
• Solidarity and own
capacity
• Maximum involvement
of Mayor and
Aldermen
• Responsive City
• Our profit is Your profit
Smart
Cities

5. EU FLAGSHIPS
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 5

6. DSA THEMES
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 6
Entrepreneurial
City
Safe CityLearning
City
Caring City
Open Networks Green City Our City Deregulated
City

7. GREEN CITY
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 7

8. CARING CITY
Voluntary care: a short term commitment with high impact
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER

9. OUR CITY
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 9
What if citizens decide on their own property tax value?
Successfully Participating Citizens in Smart Cities

10. WHERE WE WORK
Digital City Agenda | BOTTUM-UP INNOVATIVE POWER 10
EU 2020
Digital
Agenda
Digital
Agenda NL
Digital City
Agenda

11. Follow us on Twitter:
#dsaNL, @digitalesteden
Visit our website:
www.digitalestedenagenda.nl
Read, Learn and Share on
dsa.pleio.nl
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
(Bob Dylan)