Rolf Hapel
Director
Citizens’ Services
and Libraries
City of Aarhus
Urban performance depends not only on the city’s
hard infrastructure, - physical capital, but also, and
increasingly so, on the availability and quality of
knowledge, communication and social infrastructure,
- human and social capital
”Smart Cities in Europe”, Caragliu, et al., Amsterdam Free University, 2009
City of high digital maturity
Aarhus front runner on digital services
National eGov strategies
Mandatory e-Self Services
Channel Strategy
for the
City of Aarhus
2010-12
Interaction
Distance
Short term Long termSponsorships
Short duration
Donations, gifts
Volunteers as consultants
Advocacy campains
Co-production
R & D
Business development projects
Branding
Sponsorships
Long duration
Networks, clubs
Innovation in hybrid organisations
Dialogue on services
Partnership strategy
To:
• Collaboration with citizens
• User driven innovation
• Co-production
• Co-creation
Sherry Arnstein, 1969
New policy for citizen
involvement
From:
• Hearings and formal
democracy
• Duty driven
• Neat, but dusty and
boring
Seed money for intern
innovation
7 mill Euro per year
1. Creating innovative culture
2. City Council risk willing
3. User driven - involvement of
staff and citizens
4. Cross sector innovation work
5. Private sector business
component
Business Aarhus
”State of the nation – measuring the business
climate”
600+ participants
”Headstart”
Morning meetings and network on social media
1500+ participants
EU Cultural Capital 2017
Activating business community,
education and cultural institutions
Budget: 70+ mill Euro
The “Mash-up” institution
LOCAL ARCHIVE
ARKIV
Archive
YOUTH
MEETING
ROOMS
ANALOGUE MEDIA
SELF SERVICE
LEARNING CENTER
SMS BUSINESS
SERVICE
HOME-
WORK
HELP
COMMUNITY
CENTER
CAFÉ
STUDY SUPPORTJOB CORNER
LIBRARY SHOP
REFERENCE
CONSUMER INFO
NATURE GUIDE
EXHIBITIONS
FAMILIES
Partner
activities
Q AND A
HEALTH
COUNCELLING
LEISURE INFO
NEWS LOUNGE
QUIET
AREA
TODDLERS/CHILDREN
REA-
DING
TRAI-
NING
EU FP7
27 institutioner og
virksomheder i
8 lande
Slutter marts 13
FP7
FI-SmartCity
Smart City
Platforms
Open data
47 data set – increasing rapidly
Klimakanalen
Life long learning
Peoples Entlightment
Volunteers
Adult education
Knowledge
Partnerships
Participation
Citizenship
Local democracy
Real Competecies
Citizens involvement
Formation
Debate
Innovation
Social Capital Empowerment
Inclusion
Coherence
Digitisation
Local society
It-competences
Learning styles
Civic society
Citizens’ Services and Library
17.500 m2
For rent 10.000 m2
P-facility 1.000 cars
Opening of covered river
City scaping
Trafic regulation
Light rail trace
Flood protection of
central City area
Scale of project
Total costs approx.:
270 million Euro
World Café
3-4 consecutive rounds of discussion
A new question posed at each round
Participants change – the host of the table
stays an picks up the essence
Library as percieved
by others
Dialogue and oral
competences involved
Opportunity to
examine the library’s
own attitudes and
ideas
Groups of people forming visions.
Everyone gets a camera and has to
answer in photos: What is it like to be a
user and what is it like to work there?
A great variety of
competences involved
Using pictures
communicates well
Starts discussions
and reflections
Photo typing
Users and staff introduces ideas and
projects and participants elaborate and
develop those ideas
The institutions’ space is
used for ideas and
projects
A channel into user
thoughts and ideas
Test-space for
development topics
Access to user
networks
Village Square
Mindspot: Target group from 14-20. Events
inside and outside of the library. Hiring
young people – Mindspotters - on a short
term basis to create events and develop
ideas for this user group
Using user competences
Construct a universe
Access to new network
and user groups
Changing the image of
the library worker
Lead Users
Children’s lab: A week’s workshop with
children btw 9-14 prototyping a library. The
results were used as part of the competition
programme for UMSA
Direct access to
children and not just
to children’s parents
Children carries large
networks
In 2014 these children
are between 16 and 21
User driven design
Experiments
LESSONS LEARNED
Make partnerships
Co-create and co-produce
Integrate user generated knowledge in services
Think value chains, new formats and ”universes”
in service production
LESSONS LEARNED
Make space for prototyping
Increase ties between public sector activities,
research and industry
Think relations rather than transactions
Be where the users are
Smart Aarhus Brussels Sept 2013
Smart Aarhus Brussels Sept 2013
Smart Aarhus Brussels Sept 2013

Smart Aarhus Brussels Sept 2013

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  • 2.
    Urban performance dependsnot only on the city’s hard infrastructure, - physical capital, but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge, communication and social infrastructure, - human and social capital ”Smart Cities in Europe”, Caragliu, et al., Amsterdam Free University, 2009
  • 5.
    City of highdigital maturity
  • 6.
    Aarhus front runneron digital services
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
    Interaction Distance Short term LongtermSponsorships Short duration Donations, gifts Volunteers as consultants Advocacy campains Co-production R & D Business development projects Branding Sponsorships Long duration Networks, clubs Innovation in hybrid organisations Dialogue on services Partnership strategy
  • 11.
    To: • Collaboration withcitizens • User driven innovation • Co-production • Co-creation Sherry Arnstein, 1969 New policy for citizen involvement From: • Hearings and formal democracy • Duty driven • Neat, but dusty and boring
  • 12.
    Seed money forintern innovation 7 mill Euro per year 1. Creating innovative culture 2. City Council risk willing 3. User driven - involvement of staff and citizens 4. Cross sector innovation work 5. Private sector business component
  • 14.
    Business Aarhus ”State ofthe nation – measuring the business climate” 600+ participants
  • 15.
    ”Headstart” Morning meetings andnetwork on social media 1500+ participants
  • 16.
    EU Cultural Capital2017 Activating business community, education and cultural institutions Budget: 70+ mill Euro
  • 17.
    The “Mash-up” institution LOCALARCHIVE ARKIV Archive YOUTH MEETING ROOMS ANALOGUE MEDIA SELF SERVICE LEARNING CENTER SMS BUSINESS SERVICE HOME- WORK HELP COMMUNITY CENTER CAFÉ STUDY SUPPORTJOB CORNER LIBRARY SHOP REFERENCE CONSUMER INFO NATURE GUIDE EXHIBITIONS FAMILIES Partner activities Q AND A HEALTH COUNCELLING LEISURE INFO NEWS LOUNGE QUIET AREA TODDLERS/CHILDREN REA- DING TRAI- NING
  • 21.
    EU FP7 27 institutionerog virksomheder i 8 lande Slutter marts 13
  • 23.
  • 24.
    47 data set– increasing rapidly
  • 26.
  • 28.
    Life long learning PeoplesEntlightment Volunteers Adult education Knowledge Partnerships Participation Citizenship Local democracy Real Competecies Citizens involvement Formation Debate Innovation Social Capital Empowerment Inclusion Coherence Digitisation Local society It-competences Learning styles Civic society
  • 30.
    Citizens’ Services andLibrary 17.500 m2 For rent 10.000 m2 P-facility 1.000 cars Opening of covered river City scaping Trafic regulation Light rail trace Flood protection of central City area Scale of project Total costs approx.: 270 million Euro
  • 32.
    World Café 3-4 consecutiverounds of discussion A new question posed at each round Participants change – the host of the table stays an picks up the essence Library as percieved by others Dialogue and oral competences involved Opportunity to examine the library’s own attitudes and ideas
  • 33.
    Groups of peopleforming visions. Everyone gets a camera and has to answer in photos: What is it like to be a user and what is it like to work there? A great variety of competences involved Using pictures communicates well Starts discussions and reflections Photo typing
  • 34.
    Users and staffintroduces ideas and projects and participants elaborate and develop those ideas The institutions’ space is used for ideas and projects A channel into user thoughts and ideas Test-space for development topics Access to user networks Village Square
  • 35.
    Mindspot: Target groupfrom 14-20. Events inside and outside of the library. Hiring young people – Mindspotters - on a short term basis to create events and develop ideas for this user group Using user competences Construct a universe Access to new network and user groups Changing the image of the library worker Lead Users
  • 36.
    Children’s lab: Aweek’s workshop with children btw 9-14 prototyping a library. The results were used as part of the competition programme for UMSA Direct access to children and not just to children’s parents Children carries large networks In 2014 these children are between 16 and 21 User driven design
  • 37.
  • 38.
    LESSONS LEARNED Make partnerships Co-createand co-produce Integrate user generated knowledge in services Think value chains, new formats and ”universes” in service production
  • 39.
    LESSONS LEARNED Make spacefor prototyping Increase ties between public sector activities, research and industry Think relations rather than transactions Be where the users are