Understanding Smart Cities as Social MachinesDirk Ahlers
Presentation at the 4th International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines SOCM2016 at WWW2016.
Paper is here:
http://www2016.net/proceedings/companion/p759.pdf
More details: http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~there/
Challenges in Replication and Scaling of PEDs – Technical and Organisational ...Dirk Ahlers
Presentation at: NordicEdge 2021 Smart City Research Symposium | Workshop: Positive Energy Districts as vehicle towards smart and sustainable cities | 22.09.2021
Dirk Ahlers, Annemie Wyckmans
NTNU – Smart Sustainable Cities Group
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
Further information:
ELSEVIER
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
Smart Cities - everything a smart city should haveDiksha Gupta
The document discusses concepts related to smart cities, including definitions of smart cities and their aims. It outlines various components and indicators that can be used to evaluate smart cities, such as smart economy, governance, energy, mobility, environment, and living. It also provides examples of smart initiatives in areas like transportation, land use, energy efficiency, and urban development from cities in India, Brazil, and Mexico.
Smart Cities that don't go "bump" in the night: delivering interoperable smar...Rick Robinson
This document discusses concepts related to smart cities and their information modeling. It begins by defining a smart city and outlining some of its key components. It then provides examples of concepts that could be included in an information model for city systems, such as organizations, alerts, incidents, assets, and locations. It also discusses existing standards that could be leveraged for modeling these concepts and provides examples of their current use. Finally, it presents an approach for developing a semantic model called SCRIBE that is aligned with standards, customizable for different city needs, and extensible.
Working towards Sustainable Software for Science (an NSF and community view)Daniel S. Katz
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for developing sustainable software for science. It notes that software is increasingly important for science but current practices and incentives do not support long-term sustainability. The document summarizes discussions from the Working Towards Sustainable Software for Science conference, which identified key issues around developing sustainable software, best practices, policies around credit and careers, and building supportive communities. It proposes that better measuring contributions to software could help address incentives, career paths, and sustainability of software over the long term.
Understanding Smart Cities as Social MachinesDirk Ahlers
Presentation at the 4th International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines SOCM2016 at WWW2016.
Paper is here:
http://www2016.net/proceedings/companion/p759.pdf
More details: http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~there/
Challenges in Replication and Scaling of PEDs – Technical and Organisational ...Dirk Ahlers
Presentation at: NordicEdge 2021 Smart City Research Symposium | Workshop: Positive Energy Districts as vehicle towards smart and sustainable cities | 22.09.2021
Dirk Ahlers, Annemie Wyckmans
NTNU – Smart Sustainable Cities Group
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
Further information:
ELSEVIER
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
Smart Cities - everything a smart city should haveDiksha Gupta
The document discusses concepts related to smart cities, including definitions of smart cities and their aims. It outlines various components and indicators that can be used to evaluate smart cities, such as smart economy, governance, energy, mobility, environment, and living. It also provides examples of smart initiatives in areas like transportation, land use, energy efficiency, and urban development from cities in India, Brazil, and Mexico.
Smart Cities that don't go "bump" in the night: delivering interoperable smar...Rick Robinson
This document discusses concepts related to smart cities and their information modeling. It begins by defining a smart city and outlining some of its key components. It then provides examples of concepts that could be included in an information model for city systems, such as organizations, alerts, incidents, assets, and locations. It also discusses existing standards that could be leveraged for modeling these concepts and provides examples of their current use. Finally, it presents an approach for developing a semantic model called SCRIBE that is aligned with standards, customizable for different city needs, and extensible.
Working towards Sustainable Software for Science (an NSF and community view)Daniel S. Katz
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for developing sustainable software for science. It notes that software is increasingly important for science but current practices and incentives do not support long-term sustainability. The document summarizes discussions from the Working Towards Sustainable Software for Science conference, which identified key issues around developing sustainable software, best practices, policies around credit and careers, and building supportive communities. It proposes that better measuring contributions to software could help address incentives, career paths, and sustainability of software over the long term.
Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable C...ITU
These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
data and measure performance and progress to:
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
Connecting Cities, Technologies and Citizens – the Swiss-European-Japanese pr...Stephan Haller
This document discusses the CPaaS.io project, a joint R&D project between Europe and Japan aiming to create an open social city platform. The project aims to develop an open city platform as a service that empowers citizens with their own data and validates the platform with use cases to provide public value. It received 3.2 million euro in funding over 2.5 years from the EU and Japanese government. The platform combines IoT, big data, and cloud services to connect technologies, citizens, and cities.
The document discusses smart cities and public sector transformation. It provides definitions of smart cities from various organizations and outlines why cities are pursuing smart strategies. The key aspects of smart cities discussed are smart environment, society, economy, government, and how they relate to improving quality of life, efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability. Successful digital transformation of cities requires focus on 5 pillars - data, interconnection, openness, innovation policies, and participation.
The Qrowd project is a 3-year, 3.9 million euro H2020 innovation action that combines crowd and computational intelligence to develop smart city solutions. It involves 8 partners from 5 European countries and is piloting smart transportation technologies in a medium-sized Italian city. The project aims to make data technology more human-centric through open innovation, crowdsourcing to collect and enhance data, train machine learning models, empower citizens, and innovate responsibly.
Inclusive cities: a crowdsourcing approachElena Simperl
The document discusses using crowdsourcing approaches to create inclusive smart cities. It describes a project called Qrowd that combines crowd and computational intelligence to develop smart city solutions through participatory methods. The project uses a mix of open innovation techniques to co-design pilots with stakeholders. It focuses on using crowdsourcing to improve predictions by incorporating human input through a human-in-the-loop architecture. The goal is to support more inclusive smart cities that are citizen-centric and use data responsibly.
Møte mellom NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities og Gjøvik kommune & eiendomsutviklere, 12.01.2018
Overview of ICT/Computer Science projects and large-scale approaches to understand and build Smart Cities.
This document discusses how digital technologies like AI, blockchain, and IoT could potentially be used to foster more sustainable public procurement. It argues that building an enabling data architecture is essential but progress has been limited due to a lack of available data. While these technologies offer opportunities, their application to sustainable procurement is still speculative and challenges remain around data generation, complexity, and assessing environmental impacts. More research is needed on designing digital solutions and regulating their social and sustainability impacts over the long term.
Amsterdam Smart City is a collaboration between inhabitants, businesses, and governments in Amsterdam to illustrate how energy can be saved now and in the future. The key challenge is bringing parties together to initiate substantial impact projects that implement smart grids and reach sustainability goals. Amsterdam Smart City aims to fulfill its clients' goals through a collective effort combining innovative technology and behavioral change focused on sustainable living, working, transport, and the municipality, enabled by smart grid technology.
Governance models for sustainable urban construction logistics: barriers for ...Walther Ploos van Amstel
This document discusses governance models for sustainable urban construction logistics. It notes that 27% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to construction, which represents a significant portion of city logistics. Effective construction logistics can reduce urban freight movements by 50-80% through approaches like urban consolidation centers and combining inbound and outbound flows. However, barriers to collaboration between public and private stakeholders include conflicting goals, lack of resources, and insufficient awareness and understanding of construction logistics solutions. The document recommends experiments, clear policy objectives, stakeholder frameworks, improved coordination, data transparency, and further research to help overcome these barriers.
Cities as Arenas of Low-Carbon Transition? Analysing the Cases of Graz and Fr...URBACT
Presentation delivered by Harald Rohracher (Professor, Dept. of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
This document discusses service-oriented computing, web services, and the S-Cube project. It provides an overview of service-oriented computing and some key advantages of using services such as lower development costs and enhanced competitiveness for businesses. It also outlines some common standards for web services. The S-Cube project aims to establish a research community to help shape the future service-based internet. It receives €870,000 in funding over 4 years, with £440,000 allocated to the Centre. Potential areas of investigation for the S-Cube project include task modeling, user modeling, user error analysis, and various human aspects related to web services.
Art and architecture relate to culture and responsibility, while art and architecture education focus on corporate, not-for-profit, and government sectors. The document discusses bringing together stakeholders across the smart grid value chain to share knowledge on successful pilot projects, fill gaps in learning from existing projects, and create recommendations to inform investment, policy, and smart grid rollout roadmaps. The goal is to catalyze concrete partnerships for implementing project recommendations.
This document summarizes and analyzes smart city initiatives in China, Iskandar (Malaysia), Japan, New York City, and Tarragona (Spain). It defines what makes a city "smart" and establishes a framework to analyze and compare different smart city projects based on factors like management, technology, governance, policy context, people/communities, economy, infrastructure, and environment. For each case study, it analyzes the approach taken in these areas and highlights some of the organizations, technologies, goals, and challenges involved in their smart city agendas.
Mark Bradshaw, Zastepca Burmistrza Bristolu, "Czy jestem smart w planowaniu p...Smart Metropolia
Bristol faces challenges of a growing population, inequality, and environmental issues but seeks to become a leading green and digital city through its smart city initiatives. The smart city program focuses on smart energy, transport, and data projects including smart metering, traffic control, and open data portals. The goal is to use innovative technology solutions to reduce the city's carbon emissions through greater efficiency, sustainability, and citizen engagement.
This document discusses several topics related to benchmarking e-government services:
1. It examines benchmarking of e-government services in Nordic and other Northern European countries, finding they generally fall into the "steady achiever" category with modest online presence.
2. It references an EU benchmarking report that assessed e-readiness and provision of e-government services across European member states.
3. It discusses benchmarking approaches to co-design of e-government services, noting the importance of questions about current practices compared to peers and good practice standards.
Helsinki is developing initiatives to become a smarter city by being more sustainable, livable, and participatory. It is using new technologies and opening public data to empower citizens and foster innovation. A key project is the development of the Kalasatama district as a living lab and test bed for smart urban solutions, with a focus on mobility, energy, health, education and citizen engagement. The goal is to improve quality of life through collaboration between the city, businesses, and residents.
Paul Brubaker - Introduction: Smart and Connected Urban MobilityShane Mitchell
This document summarizes a session on smart and connected urban mobility. The session will explore challenges of existing urban transportation systems and innovative solutions needed for smart mobility. Speakers will discuss the roles of ICT, strategies for social and environmental goals, and enablers of sustainable mobility. The expected outcome is a set of principles for smart connected urban mobility that allows intelligent, responsive, and environmentally friendly movement of people and goods while empowering citizens and enabling data-driven decision making.
Paul Curtis, London European Partnership for Transport, „Zmiana zachowań komu...Smart Metropolia
The document discusses Personalised Travel Planning (PTP), a proven behavior change methodology used in cities to reduce car trips and increase cycling, walking, and public transport use. PTP projects in the UK typically lead to a 10% reduction in car use. The PTP-Cycle project will implement PTP programs across 6 EU cities targeting 63,000 individuals to demonstrate modal shifts, especially increased cycling. Partners will monitor impacts and develop toolkits and training to support wider adoption of PTP across European cities.
prof. Helmut Wilke, Zeppelin Universität, “Inteligentne zarządzanie w praktyce”Smart Metropolia
This document discusses smart governance of complex systems and megacities. It covers 4 topics: 1) governing complex systems, which involves dealing with uncertainty and self-reference within complex adaptive systems, 2) coping with uncertainty through understanding different types and levels of complexity, 3) building competencies such as knowledge sharing networks and developing economic complexity, and 4) achieving resilience through continuous adaptation, learning, and systemic intelligence across organizations. The overall message is that smart governance of complex issues like megacities requires approaches that can manage uncertainty, build skills and knowledge, and continuously adapt to change.
Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable C...ITU
These indicators have been developed to provide cities with a consistent and standardised method to collect
data and measure performance and progress to:
achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
becoming a smarter city
becoming a more sustainable city
The indicators will enable cities to measure their progress over time, compare their performance to other
cities and through analysis and sharing allow for the dissemination of best practices and set standards for
progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level.
For more information visit: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ssc/united/Pages/default.aspx
Connecting Cities, Technologies and Citizens – the Swiss-European-Japanese pr...Stephan Haller
This document discusses the CPaaS.io project, a joint R&D project between Europe and Japan aiming to create an open social city platform. The project aims to develop an open city platform as a service that empowers citizens with their own data and validates the platform with use cases to provide public value. It received 3.2 million euro in funding over 2.5 years from the EU and Japanese government. The platform combines IoT, big data, and cloud services to connect technologies, citizens, and cities.
The document discusses smart cities and public sector transformation. It provides definitions of smart cities from various organizations and outlines why cities are pursuing smart strategies. The key aspects of smart cities discussed are smart environment, society, economy, government, and how they relate to improving quality of life, efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability. Successful digital transformation of cities requires focus on 5 pillars - data, interconnection, openness, innovation policies, and participation.
The Qrowd project is a 3-year, 3.9 million euro H2020 innovation action that combines crowd and computational intelligence to develop smart city solutions. It involves 8 partners from 5 European countries and is piloting smart transportation technologies in a medium-sized Italian city. The project aims to make data technology more human-centric through open innovation, crowdsourcing to collect and enhance data, train machine learning models, empower citizens, and innovate responsibly.
Inclusive cities: a crowdsourcing approachElena Simperl
The document discusses using crowdsourcing approaches to create inclusive smart cities. It describes a project called Qrowd that combines crowd and computational intelligence to develop smart city solutions through participatory methods. The project uses a mix of open innovation techniques to co-design pilots with stakeholders. It focuses on using crowdsourcing to improve predictions by incorporating human input through a human-in-the-loop architecture. The goal is to support more inclusive smart cities that are citizen-centric and use data responsibly.
Møte mellom NTNU Smart Sustainable Cities og Gjøvik kommune & eiendomsutviklere, 12.01.2018
Overview of ICT/Computer Science projects and large-scale approaches to understand and build Smart Cities.
This document discusses how digital technologies like AI, blockchain, and IoT could potentially be used to foster more sustainable public procurement. It argues that building an enabling data architecture is essential but progress has been limited due to a lack of available data. While these technologies offer opportunities, their application to sustainable procurement is still speculative and challenges remain around data generation, complexity, and assessing environmental impacts. More research is needed on designing digital solutions and regulating their social and sustainability impacts over the long term.
Amsterdam Smart City is a collaboration between inhabitants, businesses, and governments in Amsterdam to illustrate how energy can be saved now and in the future. The key challenge is bringing parties together to initiate substantial impact projects that implement smart grids and reach sustainability goals. Amsterdam Smart City aims to fulfill its clients' goals through a collective effort combining innovative technology and behavioral change focused on sustainable living, working, transport, and the municipality, enabled by smart grid technology.
Governance models for sustainable urban construction logistics: barriers for ...Walther Ploos van Amstel
This document discusses governance models for sustainable urban construction logistics. It notes that 27% of greenhouse gas emissions are related to construction, which represents a significant portion of city logistics. Effective construction logistics can reduce urban freight movements by 50-80% through approaches like urban consolidation centers and combining inbound and outbound flows. However, barriers to collaboration between public and private stakeholders include conflicting goals, lack of resources, and insufficient awareness and understanding of construction logistics solutions. The document recommends experiments, clear policy objectives, stakeholder frameworks, improved coordination, data transparency, and further research to help overcome these barriers.
Cities as Arenas of Low-Carbon Transition? Analysing the Cases of Graz and Fr...URBACT
Presentation delivered by Harald Rohracher (Professor, Dept. of Thematic Studies – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden) for URBACT Training for Elected Representatives on Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development.
Seminar 3 (2-4 December 2013, Brussels, Belgium): Sustainability and change. How can cities tackle the challenges of climate change and assess their progress? And how to intervene in complex energy transitions while improving a city's quality of life?
Read more: http://urbact.eu/en/news-and-events/urbact-events/training-for-elected-representatives/
This document discusses service-oriented computing, web services, and the S-Cube project. It provides an overview of service-oriented computing and some key advantages of using services such as lower development costs and enhanced competitiveness for businesses. It also outlines some common standards for web services. The S-Cube project aims to establish a research community to help shape the future service-based internet. It receives €870,000 in funding over 4 years, with £440,000 allocated to the Centre. Potential areas of investigation for the S-Cube project include task modeling, user modeling, user error analysis, and various human aspects related to web services.
Art and architecture relate to culture and responsibility, while art and architecture education focus on corporate, not-for-profit, and government sectors. The document discusses bringing together stakeholders across the smart grid value chain to share knowledge on successful pilot projects, fill gaps in learning from existing projects, and create recommendations to inform investment, policy, and smart grid rollout roadmaps. The goal is to catalyze concrete partnerships for implementing project recommendations.
This document summarizes and analyzes smart city initiatives in China, Iskandar (Malaysia), Japan, New York City, and Tarragona (Spain). It defines what makes a city "smart" and establishes a framework to analyze and compare different smart city projects based on factors like management, technology, governance, policy context, people/communities, economy, infrastructure, and environment. For each case study, it analyzes the approach taken in these areas and highlights some of the organizations, technologies, goals, and challenges involved in their smart city agendas.
Mark Bradshaw, Zastepca Burmistrza Bristolu, "Czy jestem smart w planowaniu p...Smart Metropolia
Bristol faces challenges of a growing population, inequality, and environmental issues but seeks to become a leading green and digital city through its smart city initiatives. The smart city program focuses on smart energy, transport, and data projects including smart metering, traffic control, and open data portals. The goal is to use innovative technology solutions to reduce the city's carbon emissions through greater efficiency, sustainability, and citizen engagement.
This document discusses several topics related to benchmarking e-government services:
1. It examines benchmarking of e-government services in Nordic and other Northern European countries, finding they generally fall into the "steady achiever" category with modest online presence.
2. It references an EU benchmarking report that assessed e-readiness and provision of e-government services across European member states.
3. It discusses benchmarking approaches to co-design of e-government services, noting the importance of questions about current practices compared to peers and good practice standards.
Helsinki is developing initiatives to become a smarter city by being more sustainable, livable, and participatory. It is using new technologies and opening public data to empower citizens and foster innovation. A key project is the development of the Kalasatama district as a living lab and test bed for smart urban solutions, with a focus on mobility, energy, health, education and citizen engagement. The goal is to improve quality of life through collaboration between the city, businesses, and residents.
Paul Brubaker - Introduction: Smart and Connected Urban MobilityShane Mitchell
This document summarizes a session on smart and connected urban mobility. The session will explore challenges of existing urban transportation systems and innovative solutions needed for smart mobility. Speakers will discuss the roles of ICT, strategies for social and environmental goals, and enablers of sustainable mobility. The expected outcome is a set of principles for smart connected urban mobility that allows intelligent, responsive, and environmentally friendly movement of people and goods while empowering citizens and enabling data-driven decision making.
Paul Curtis, London European Partnership for Transport, „Zmiana zachowań komu...Smart Metropolia
The document discusses Personalised Travel Planning (PTP), a proven behavior change methodology used in cities to reduce car trips and increase cycling, walking, and public transport use. PTP projects in the UK typically lead to a 10% reduction in car use. The PTP-Cycle project will implement PTP programs across 6 EU cities targeting 63,000 individuals to demonstrate modal shifts, especially increased cycling. Partners will monitor impacts and develop toolkits and training to support wider adoption of PTP across European cities.
prof. Helmut Wilke, Zeppelin Universität, “Inteligentne zarządzanie w praktyce”Smart Metropolia
This document discusses smart governance of complex systems and megacities. It covers 4 topics: 1) governing complex systems, which involves dealing with uncertainty and self-reference within complex adaptive systems, 2) coping with uncertainty through understanding different types and levels of complexity, 3) building competencies such as knowledge sharing networks and developing economic complexity, and 4) achieving resilience through continuous adaptation, learning, and systemic intelligence across organizations. The overall message is that smart governance of complex issues like megacities requires approaches that can manage uncertainty, build skills and knowledge, and continuously adapt to change.
This document summarizes a workshop on understanding smart environments and cities. The workshop objectives were to understand what defines a smart city through an evidence-based learning process. A smart city is defined as one that performs well in key fields of development like economy, environment, mobility, people, living, and governance. For the environment domain, the workshop discussed the most relevant components like green space, pollution levels, ecological awareness, and sustainable resource management. The goal was to identify Krakow's strengths and weaknesses in these areas to help develop a smart city strategy and roadmap.
Sofia Knowledge City - Mickael Pero - 20171028Mickael Pero
COST representative, Mickael Pero Science Officer at COST provided an overview of ongoing knowledge networks working on smart city topics, as well as the current activity of Sofia communities in those knowledge networks. Presentation available here.
Towards a Joined-up Smart Cities Vision and Strategy for Europe - Data DaysSarahBuelens
DG Connect aims to transform Europe's cities by making public services more convenient through technology, making cities more responsive to citizens, and providing information to improve decision making, all while achieving environmental sustainability and economic viability. The document outlines several principles and use cases for smart cities, including optimizing existing infrastructure, ensuring interoperability and open data standards, and creating scalable and secure technology solutions. It also lists several DG Connect activities and portfolios that focus on areas like open data, cloud systems, broadband access, smart energy and mobility initiatives, and using cities as test beds for innovative internet-enabled services.
Smart Cities, Smart Regions and the Role of Open DataJohann Höchtl
The document discusses open government data initiatives in Austria. It provides an overview of the Danube University Krems, which conducts research on e-governance and IT usage in government. It then discusses Austria's open data efforts, including the establishment of a cooperation group and data portal. It notes that Austria's metadata standards are aligned with international guidelines and that open data has enabled several civic applications. The document advocates expanding open data access across levels of government and countries to maximize its potential benefits.
The document discusses smart cities and smart ICT. It describes the Center for E-Governance at Danube University Krems and their research projects related to government processes, stakeholders, and ICT. Their projects include work with the City of Vienna on open government and open data, and with the Austrian Chancellery on e-democracy, open government data standards, and the workplace of the future.
Amsterdam is considered a leader in smart city development with three key drivers: economic development, investment competitiveness, and improving lives. The city focuses on sustainability, reducing CO2 emissions through initiatives like smart grids, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency. Transportation is being transformed through one-way vehicle sharing enabled by smart technologies. Lessons for other cities include the importance of customer needs, sustainability awareness, coalition building, and testing multiple technical solutions alongside innovative funding. Elements of Amsterdam's smart infrastructure like smart electricity grids and smart vehicles could be adopted elsewhere.
Leveraging the Platform effect for citiesAlex Gluhak
Urban Data Talks #4 presentation by Alanus von Radecki, Deutsches Kompetenz Zentrum fuer Staedte und Region, outlining how effective collaboration with various cities and municipal companies can support the scaling of smart city use cases.
The document summarizes the INTEGREEN project which used mobile sensors and vehicles to collect traffic and environmental data in real-time. This data was transmitted to a traffic management center and used to test more environmentally-focused traffic policies. The project also conducted awareness campaigns to educate the public and shared results with other European projects. The data collection and testing improved understanding of the relationship between traffic and air pollution to help traffic managers develop more sustainable strategies.
Talk by Sophie Meszaros from Open and Agile Smart Cities at Urban Data Talks #6 event on progress of european work on data spaces for sustainable smart cities and communities.
Visual Analytics of Smart City Data for Sustainable Quality of Life of CitizensMikolaj Leszczuk
The improvement of Quality of Life (QoL) concerns every citizen. Fostering and applying research domains in advanced acquisition, modelling and visual analysis tools will support cities’ deciders in taking informed QoL improvement decisions on (partially) uncertain big data. We acknowledge a challenge in the scalability of complexity ranging from an expert’s view to a naive citizen’s understanding of (potentially unpopular) QoL decisions that we will tackle by new approaches to open big data network acquisition, multidimensional and multidisciplinary transformation of data, extraction of decision relevant data and its associated reliability, followed by appropriate visualisation aided by a data-aware digital assistant.
An EU view on Smart Cities Mercè Griera i Fisarnogues
This document provides an overview of smart cities from an EU perspective. It defines smart cities as systems that catalyze sustainable development and quality of life through technology and urban planning. The EU aims to accelerate smart city solutions to meet climate and energy targets by funding demonstration projects. The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities will transform cities by focusing on innovation through integrated energy, transport, and ICT solutions. Horizon 2020 provides funding opportunities for large-scale lighthouse projects and activities to enhance the rollout of smart city solutions.
Regional Partnerships for Living Labs: the Case of Sicily and the MedLab Projectjexxon
A presentation of the process of building the TLL-Sicily Living Lab partnership and how this experience fed into the MedLab Project, for the eChallenges conference in Istanbul, October 22, 2009
Delivering Urban Efficiency through Collaboration: Smart Cities & ITSchneider Electric
Smart city is a change management journey. Citizens at the center. Technology as enabler. Business as partner.
Presented by Régis Largillier, Leader Of Smart City, Schneider Electric during Power To The Cloud, Schneider Electric Middle East Datacenter Solutions Conference
Augmented Urbans | Study "Resilience by the River"Elina Sergejeva
During Augmented Urbans project Riga Planning Region experts where working on a study called Resilience by the River wanting to bring attention to the wider spectrum of resilience and agility in urban plannning by creating visible impact on-site working togehter with local communities. As we where doing these small scale interventions we tested new, augmented, mixed use technologies and encouraged their use for participatory planning.
But in order to be more spatially specific, we set the focus on our region and studied how resilience has been addressed in spatial plans in Riga region
Study focuses on three cases on the banks of river daugava and links them with the knowledge mile or a cluster of university campuses in the urban center
Our cases are- Kruminsala island, Kekava un Ogre municipalities on the outskirts of the city. Throughout out activities we referenced Resilience towards a common value in our region — the river Daugava
Self-Improving Sustainable Intelligent Transport System (ITS) Using Video Con...Mikolaj Leszczuk
Objective: to develop VCA algorithms that are suitable for big data processing, and designing visual, audio and environmental sensors/actuators ready to support sustainable transport
Expected results
Short-term: increasing and expanding technical excellence by creating a set of innovative solutions integrating various sensors and actuators designed & developed for enabling ITS
Long-term: significant impact on the urban environment in areas of transit efficiency, pollution & safety
Connecting Cities for Sustainable Living: An Urban RevolutionShane Mitchell
The document provides an overview of the Connected Urban Development (CUD) program, a five-year public-private partnership between Cisco and cities around the world. The CUD program aims to reduce carbon emissions and promote economic development by fundamentally changing how cities operate and use resources through increased use of information and communication technologies. The CUD blueprint includes building blocks related to work, mobility, buildings, energy, and socioeconomics. The CUD program has launched pilots in various cities focused on areas like smart mobility, energy efficient buildings, intelligent traffic management, and more. Evaluations of pilots found benefits like reduced energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, lower transportation costs, and time savings for users. The CUD program seeks to engage
About URBAN INNO
A significantly better linkage of actors within urban innovation ecosystems (public authorities, research organizations, industry as well as end-users respectively customers and citizens) is needed for a better use of innovation potentials. Public and private sectors recognize that there is especially a significant gap in the field of participation in innovation processes from people as citizens and as users and customers. Many smart solutions, technologies and services are not used widely because of the lack of knowledge and motivation or acceptance of end-users.
URBAN INNO focuses on maximizing innovation potentials of urban ecosystems through:
- Better linking actors in innovation systems by establishing and interlinking quadruple helix clusters and networks in the partner regions; and
- Developing and implementing new participatory methods and tools to engage end-users in innovation processes with the objective to have educated and motivated users.
URBAN INNO will be implemented in small-medium sized urban ecosystems in central Europe with strong replication potential due to the big number of similar-sized cities in the EU. Quadruple-helix networks will be established and regional/urban innovation action plans developed (setup of demo centres and testbeds for industry). In parallel, new participatory methods and tools will be developed and tested in pilot projects. Participative urban environments will substantially improve their innovation performance with the established innovation environment. A transnational cooperation strategy and platform will provide all interested regions the best available participatory tools and qualified facilitators and best practice will enable transfer and exchange of urban innovation models and practices throughout central Europe.
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prof. Rudolf Giffinger, Technische Universität Wien, “Europejska sieć współpracy inteligentnych miast”
1. Networking European Smart Cities
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Rudolf Giffinger
Vienna University of Technology
Department of Spatial Planning
Centre of Regional Science
International congress „Smart metropolis”,
Gdańsk
21st - 22nd of November, 2013
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2. Objectives & structure
Trends in smart city discussion
Urbanisation, competitiveness, energy efficient city
Learning processes
Network based integrative understanding
Understanding Smart City – a learning process
Experiences with a place based SC-approach
Basic concept
Recent experiences on networking with integrative SC_approach
Conclusions
challenges of networks
learning processes for integrative SC-approach
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3. Urbanisation in a global context
Unbroken trend … but different pace
Change in urban systems
Increasing metropolitan regions and
changing settlement patterns
Competitiveness of cities
Economic re-structuring
Increasing importance of ‚soft„ factors
Environmental and ecological conditions
About 50 % of population in urban areas – energy
consumption about 75 %
Increasing energy consumption – emissions
Increase of energy efficiency
Increasing complexity on urban development
A challenge of learning processes based on networks
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4. Technical understanding of Smart City
„Smart Cities combine diverse technologies to reduce their
environmental impact and offer citizens better lives.
This is not, however, simply a technical challenge….”
European Smart City stakeholder platform‟
http://www.eu-smartcities.eu/faqs# Smart_Cities; 25.2.2013
technical solutions are obvious – basically result of networks of
technicians focussing on technical innovations
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5. Technical and economic understanding of Smart City
„.. when investments in human and social capital and traditional (transport)
and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic
growth and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural
resources, through a participated governance.“
Caragliu, DelBoand, Nijkamp,2011
Factors influencing the emergence of innovations in urban context
– from triple helix to enhanced triple helix
– University, industry, goverment / learning, market, knowledge
obviously, cooperation and networking of actors of specific segments
but focussing on business model for implementation of technical model
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6. Integrative understanding of Smart City
„A Smart City is a city well performing in
[relevant key fields of urban development],
built on the ‘smart’ combination of endowments
and activities of self-decisive, independent and
aware citizens.”
Giffinger, et al., 2007
Emphasizing good performance in urban
development through
improvement of services in different key fields
in collaboration of stakeholders in relevant key
fields
based on citizens’ awareness and their active
participation
Cooperation and networking becomes
obvious – but with which challenges?
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7. Integrative understanding of Smart City
SC understanding
Integrative
Relevant key fields
– with most relevant
domains
Place based evidence
Specificities and features
– Local conditions of
urban development
Comprehensive
Technology, structure,
aware citizens
SC learning process
Stakeholder and citizens based
evidence
Perception and assessments
o Identification of assets and trends
o Strategic interests
o Assessment of activities and
potentials
Indicator based evidence on urban
trends and conditions
supporting positioning and
benchmarking
detecting largest strengths and
weaknesses
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8. Smart City as a learning process
Smart City
Workshops
Key fields
28
Domains
81
Components
Data
Functions
• delivering Rank for each
city in urban system
• describing position and
profile in every considered
key field
• Supporting benchmarking
and analytical evidence
through differentiation into
domains described by
components (= indicator)
Participatory
settings
Expert
interviews
Functions
• identifying relevant key fields
and domains
•
assessing profiles in terms of
strengths and weaknesses
•
elaborating/ assessing
relevant indicators
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9. SC Aarhus: the first promising but linear experiences
www.smart-cities.eu
Aarhus, 2009/10
Presentation of rank – profile –
benchmarking – strengths and
weaknesses in large auditorium
Public discussion and definition
of most important topics (key
fields and domains)
Participatory setting through
corresponding workshops
Further discussion in working
groups
Local intraurban networks for
each key field in working groups
with stakeholders and citizens
No Expert interviews
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10. SC Linz: interactive process with open end
Linz 2013
Contract with consortium of
stakeholders
Presentation of first
results, discussing indicators:
missing or reliable
Modification of few indicators and
elaboration of missing values
Workshop with stakeholders:
• assessing profiles in terms of
strengths and weaknesses
Final report & Press conference
Clear Network of stakeholders
from the beginning; marginally
enhanced over time
No interviews
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11. Benchmarking: creating networks in SC-Krakov
Project consortium (lead partner
Technology Park Krakov) identifies
• Key fields and domains of smart urbanregional development
6 specific local workshops about key fields
• Assessing keyfields and domains
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses
• Discussion of indicators and new city
sample (300 000 to 1 mill inhabitants)
•
•
SC_Profiles: benchmarking for
dedecting strenghts and weaknesses
and good practice examples (excursions
to 4 cities)
Final report with Road map including
stakeholders
Competent Network of SC representatives
participating in 6 workshops discussing
most important projects and road map
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12. 6 energy efficient SCies in EU: an iterative procedure
http://www.pleecproject.eu/
European consortium of scientists and 6
partner cities: 2 surveys and several
workshops
Inclusion of additional city stakeholders
• Energy efficiency
• Key fields & Domains
• Assessing domains
• Defining components / indicators
Jyväskylä
Turku
Eskilstuna
Tartu
Stoke-on-Trent
Karte folgtGreenand
buildings
land-use
Santiago de
Compostela
Renovation
and
refurbishment
Innovative
building
technologies
Spatial
structures and
land-use
Profile of SC energy efficiency:
Work in progress
Mobility and
transport
Technical
Infrastructure
Production and
consumption
Energy
supply
Public
transport
Waste, water
and sewage
management
Industry and
commerce
Fossil energy
Private and
public services
Nuclear
energy
Private
households
Renewable
energy
Motorised
private
transport
Pedestrian
traffic and
cycling
Transport of
goods
Electrical
power grids
Heating and
cooling grids
Public lighting
Strongly evolving network: 6 partners –
corresponding city stakeholders cooperating
several times with experts
Sources of basemap: TUWIEN 2013 based on
Esri, GEBCO, NOAA, National Geographic, DeLorme,
NAVTEQ, Geonames.org and other contributors; EuroGeographics
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13. Conclusions
challenges of networks
First evidence on integrative SC-approach
Evidence based learning process and networking should/will
mutually support each other
Relational capital is irreplaceable for knowledge production in
networks
– trust building, coopeative abilities and competence
Despite an increasing circular process, following deficits of own
approach evident
– Still not fully explored in its features: convergence and irreversability
of network activities
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14. conclusions
learning processes for integrative SC_approach
Challenges are obvious in city level
Environmental problems, problems of rapid growing cities and
metropolises, …
Need of integration of technical and social innovations
creation of business models exclusively driven by economic interests
Technical solutions more or less existing
Need of identification of relevant communities in distinct places
Need of urban innovations based on networking
Common learning about local conditions and interests provides place
based evidence a precondition for adequate/effective solutions
Commmon learning improves chances for inclusive and sustainable
development
For realisation, political will remains an important precondition
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15. Many Thanks for Your Attention
Univ.Prof. Dr. Rudolf Giffinger
Department of Spatial Planning
Centre of Regional Science
Vienna University of Technology
www.srf.tuwien.ac.at
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