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This document has been produced in the context of the CPaaS.io project which is jointly funded by the European Commission (grant agreement n° 723076) and NICT from Japan (management number 18302). All information provided in this document is provided "as is" and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability. For the avoidance of all doubts, the European Commission and NICT have no liability in respect of this document, which is merely representing the view of the project consortium. This document is subject to change without notice.
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Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
Context. With a mass exceeding several 104 M⊙ and a rich and dense population of massive stars, supermassive young star clusters
represent the most massive star-forming environment that is dominated by the feedback from massive stars and gravitational interactions
among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
the Chandra survey of Westerlund 1 consists of 36 new ACIS-I observations, nearly co-pointed, for a total exposure time of 1 Msec.
Additionally, we included 8 archival Chandra/ACIS-S observations. This paper presents the resulting catalog of X-ray sources within
and around Westerlund 1. Sources were detected by combining various existing methods, and photon extraction and source validation
were carried out using the ACIS-Extract software.
Results. The EWOCS X-ray catalog comprises 5963 validated sources out of the 9420 initially provided to ACIS-Extract, reaching a
photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
PPT on Direct Seeded Rice presented at the three-day 'Training and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies in South Asia' workshop on April 22, 2024.
Mending Clothing to Support Sustainable Fashion_CIMaR 2024.pdfSelcen Ozturkcan
Ozturkcan, S., Berndt, A., & Angelakis, A. (2024). Mending clothing to support sustainable fashion. Presented at the 31st Annual Conference by the Consortium for International Marketing Research (CIMaR), 10-13 Jun 2024, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Travis Hills of MN is Making Clean Water Accessible to All Through High Flux ...Travis Hills MN
By harnessing the power of High Flux Vacuum Membrane Distillation, Travis Hills from MN envisions a future where clean and safe drinking water is accessible to all, regardless of geographical location or economic status.
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
The technology uses reclaimed CO₂ as the dyeing medium in a closed loop process. When pressurized, CO₂ becomes supercritical (SC-CO₂). In this state CO₂ has a very high solvent power, allowing the dye to dissolve easily.
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The Bern University of Applied Sciences and its Smart City Research
1. Bern University of Applied Sciences | Institute Public Sector TransformationBerner Fachhochschule | Haute école spécialisée bernoise | Bern University of Applied Sciences | ベルン応用科学大学
The Bern University of Applied Sciences
and its Smart City Research
Prof. Stephan Haller, Institute Public Sector Transformation
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▶ Current Position
▶ Professor at the Institute Public Sector Transformation of the
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
▶ Head of the thematic focus area Buildings & Cities of the BFH Center Digital Society
▶ Teaching: E-Government, Project Management. Enterprise Architecture
▶ Research: Linked Open Data, Internet of Things, Smart Cities
▶ Experience
▶ > 25 years industrial ICT Research and Development (IoT since 1998)
▶ > 15 years project management of international ICT projects
▶ > 7 years R&D strategy definition
▶ Working experience in 3 countries:
Japan (7 years, Matsushita, SAP), Germany (5 years, SAP) and Switzerland (Swissair, SAP, Vigience, BFH)
▶ Master Degree in Computer Science from the ETH Zurich
Stephan Haller
stephan.haller@bfh.ch
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Switzerland and its Educational System
The Bern University of Applied Sciences
Joint European-Japanese Research
on Smart City
Topics for Today
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Switzerland and its Educational System
The Bern University of Applied Sciences
Joint European-Japanese Research
on Smart City
Topics for Today
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Switzerland – in the Center of Europe
European Union (EU)
EU Candidates
Potential EU Candidates
European Economic Area (EEA)
Switzerland
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Comparing Switzerland and Japan
Switzerland Japan Tokyo-to Tokyo (23 wards) Kyushu
Size 41,285 km2 377,973 km2 2,191 km2 619 km2 36,782 km2
Pop. 8.5 mio. 126 mio. 13.8 mio. 9.3 mio. 12.9 mio.
GDP Total $551 billion $5,749 billion ~960 billon
GDP per capita $83,583 $45,565 ~$71,400
Source: Wikipedia
GDP calculated as
PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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Typically Swiss …
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Switzerland and Japan – Similar but different …
Alps 日本アルプス
Images: Stephan Haller, wikimedia (タチヤマカムイ )
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Switzerland and Japan – Similar but different …
Schwingen 相撲
Images: Flickr (Kanton Glarus, hit thatswitch)
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Switzerland and Japan – Similar but different …
Rösti お好み裂き
Images: Pixabay (violetta), Stephan Haller
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Switzerland and Japan – Similar but different …
寿司
Image: Jun Yamada
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Political System: Federal Structure, Direct Democracy
3 Levels
▶ Federal (National)
▶ 26 Cantons
▶ 2212 Communes
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Federal Structure
3 Levels
▶ Federal (National)
▶ 26 Cantons
▶ 2212 Communes
Bern
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Federal Structure
3 Levels
▶ Federal (National)
▶ 26 Cantons
▶ 2212 Communes
Bern
Zürich
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Switzerland’s Educational System
Kindergarten
Secondary School
Universities
Specialised
Middle
Schools
Matura
Schools
(Baccalaureate)
Vocational Training
Primary School
Universities of
Applied Sciences
Teacher Training
Colleges
Higher Vocational Education
2 years
5-6 years
3-4 years
3-4 years
幼稚園
小学校
中学校
(高校)
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Switzerland and its Educational System
The Bern University of Applied Sciences
Joint European-Japanese Research
on Smart City
Topics for Today
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BFH Locations and its Departements
AHB – Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering
EHSM – Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen
G – Health Professions
HAFL – School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
HKB – Bern University of the Arts
S – Social Work
TI – Engineering and Information Technology
W – Business
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Facts and Figures BFH (2018)
8Departments
3 Teaching
Languages
German, French, English
1 Foundation in Canton Bern
October 1997
486 Ongoing research projects
with regional, national and international partners
6970Students
in 30 Bachelor’s degree courses and 22
Master’s degree courses
49%Proportion
of Women
Architecture, Wood and Civil
Engineering
Health Professions
School of Agricultural, Forest and
Food Sciences
Bern University of the Arts
Social Work
Engineering and Information
Technology
Business School
Swiss Federal Institute of Sport
Magglingen SFISM
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Bern in the heart of Switzerland
UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983
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BFH Business School Degree Programmes 2018
946 Bachelor 119 Master
2Master Degree
Programmes
MSc Business Administration
MSc Business Information Technology
Total Number of Students
2Bachelor Degree
Programmes
BSc Business Administration
BSc Business Information Technology
27% of students starting
BSc Business Administration
choose International
Programme in English
4 Double degree agreements with
selected partner institutions in
Sweden, Finland, Australia and the
french-speaking part of Switzerland
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Partners – Worldwide
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BScBA & MScBA
BScBA
BScBA & BScBIT
BScBA
Double Degree Programme
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BFH Business School
Welcome Week
great opportunity to learn more about Bern and
university life, meet other students.
International
Office Events
events on a regular basis in order to provide a
platform for networking between students,
professors and staff.
IFMP
The International Family Mentor Programme
with our local students in order to provide
support and an excellent exchange experience.
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Study Environment
Intensive
Personal
Support
Situated in the City Centre in the Marzili
district – the most popular outdoor
swimming area along the Aare river.
• Low student-lecturer ratio
• Open and frequent communication
with professors and International
Office staff
• Support in finding accommodation
• University sport facilities for a very
reasonable membership fee
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Make International Friends
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Virtual Tour ▶ https://www.tourmake.it/de/tour/27bfeaf9906d9d556b500c807df20604
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Study in Bern
Develop
intercultural
competencies
Experience
another
lifestyle
Gettoknowpeoplefromall
overtheworld
Improve your
foreign
language
skills
@bfh_business_international
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Vision of the Business School of BFH
«Our practice-focused teaching, continuing
education and research enable domain specialists
and executives as well as organisations to build
values that reflect the digital future of business
and society.»
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Organisation of the Business School of BFH
公共部門改革研究所
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Open. Participatory. Resilient.
https://de.wikipedia.org
BFHWirtschaft
Direct Democracy 4.0 is an
open, participatory and digital democracy.
At the core is the maximization of
Public Value.
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Open. Participatory. Resilient.
That's how we imagine the public sector.
And this is what we are committed to – with practical teaching and
continuing education, as well as with application-oriented research.
Our recipe for success:
▶ Think globally, act locally
▶ Bridging between different domains of expertise
▶ Multidisciplinary team well connected in science, practice and relevant
communities.
Our focus areas:
▶ Digital Democracy
▶ Data and Infrastructure
▶ Innovation.
Institute Public Sector Transformation
designed door Starline - Freepik.com
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Public Value at the Core: Topic-oriented, multi-stakeholder
approach
• Digitalisation monitoring
for 2019 elections
• AI/ML in political decision
making
…
Digital Democracy
• The Once-Only Project
• Smart City
• Memory institutions
• Linked & Open Data
…
Data & Infrastructure
• Communal monitoring
• Chatbot Directorate of
Education
…
Innovation
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Switzerland and its Educational System
The Bern University of Applied Sciences
Joint European-Japanese Research
on Smart City
Topics for Today
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Vision…
35Images: Smart City Nansha, ISA Internationales
Stadtbauatelier, Wikimedia Commons;
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Vision…
36Images: Smart City Nansha, ISA Internationales
Stadtbauatelier, Wikimedia Commons;
Village Exotica
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… or Nightmare?
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Images: CBS News;
Nanjin Transport Police's public Weibo post;
ABC Australia
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Smart City Definitions
„A city to be smart 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 participatory governance”
Caragliu et al., 2011
„A smart city is a well-defined geographical area, in which high
technologies such as ICT, logistic, energy production, and so on,
cooperate to create benefits for citizens in terms of well-being,
inclusion and participation, environmental quality, intelligent
development; it is governed by a well-defined pool of subjects, able to
state the rules and policy for the city government and development”
Dameri, 2013
„A smart sustainable city is an innovative city
that uses information and communication
technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve
quality of life, efficiency of urban operations and
services, and competitiveness, while ensuring
that it meets the needs of present and future
generations with respect to economic, social,
environmental as well as cultural aspects.”
ITU-T, 2016
„Eine Smart City bietet ihren Bewohnern maximale Lebensqualität bei minimalem
Ressourcenverbrauch dank einer intelligenten Verknüpfung von Infrastruktursystemen (Transport,
Energie, Kommunikation, etc.) auf unterschiedlichen hierarchischen Stufen (Gebäude, Quartier,
Stadt).
"Intelligent" ist in diesem Zusammenhang nicht automatisch mit "IT" gleichzusetzen. Bei ähnlicher
Performance sind passive oder selbstregulierende Mechanismen den aktiv geregelten Ansätzen
vorzuziehen.”
P. Richner, EMPA / IG Smart City Schweiz
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Different Smart City Applications
Themes in Amsterdam Categories in Vienna
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Sources: Amsterdam Smart City; Cohen 2014; Griffinger al. 2007; Haller 2019; Smart City WIen
Energy
Mobility
Circular City
Governance & Education
Citizens & Living
Smart City Academy
Digital City
Buildings / Health /
Social Affairs
Environment / Energy
Location
Mobility
Digital
Bildung
Innovation
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EU-Japan Project CPaaS.io
City Platform as a Service – Integrated and Open
Smart City Innovation is the goal of the CPaaS.io
joint R&D project between Europe and Japan. This
means creating value for the society and all actors
in the city environment – people, private
enterprises, public administrations.
To achieve this, the CPaaS.io platform combines the
capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data
analytics and cloud service provisioning with Open
Government Data and Linked Data approaches.
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Funding Institutions & Programmes H2020 EUJ-02-2016 / NICT (高度通信・放送研究開発委託事業)
Project Volume 3.2 Mio. € / 304.5 PM
Duration July 1, 2016 – December 31, 2018 (2.5 years)
Project Data
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Project Objectives
1. Develop an Open Social City Platform
2. Deploy the City Platform as a Service Solution
3. Empower the citizen to her data
4. Validate the platform with use cases providing public value
5. Develop blue prints for the adaptation and transfer of solutions to other cities
6. Create impact in cities
43. Use Cases
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Smart Transportation
スマート輸送
Smart Emergency Care
スマート緊急医療 Smart Water Management
スマート水の管理
Smart Events
スマート エベントSmart Government
スマート政府
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Use Cases – Events & Tourism
Event Experience
▶ More fun and excitement for participants at events like the "colour run"
▶ Increased number of participants
▶ Better information for international visitors (e.g., Snow Festival in
Sapporo)
▶ Better logistics for organizers, participants and visitors
Transportation
▶ Aggregated real-time information about
public transport operations from multiple
providers
▶ Scalability
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Use Cases – Waterproof Amsterdam
Goals
▶ Early detection of high water levels / floods
▶ Safety of citizens
Approach
▶ Citizens install water buffers and water
level sensors, connected via a LoRaWAN
network
▶ Data is collected, aggregated and
analysed in the CPaaS.io platform
▶ Automatic triggering of governmental
services
▶ Data available to third parties for
additional usage and services
Images: Rainproof Amsterdam (Merlijn Michon);
Stowa - Bert-Jan van Weeren
(https://youtu.be/7OeNDSepbUY)
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Use Cases – Emergency Services Yokosuka
Goals
▶ Better health and emergency services for the population
▶ On-site triage suppport
Approach
▶ Location data, images and IoT sensor data
give emergency staff a complete picture
of the situation
▶ Information exchange between
ambulances, hospitals and potentially
additional third party service providers
▶ Data analysis for better resource
allocation
Picture: Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory
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Video Yokosuka
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Summary: Main Project Results
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Source:https://www.cpaas.io/?page_id=1152
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Connecting Technologies: Smart City Platform
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Smart City Platform Federation
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Dashboard with data from federated instances
Source: AGT International
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City Dashboard Example: Murcia, Spain
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Source: http://mapamurcia.inf.um.es/
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Beneficiaries
For whom is value
delivered?
Cost Structure
What are the most important costs to implement and
operate this Smart City application?
Revenue Streams /
Saving Potential
How is the Smart City Application financed?
Relationships
Who are supporters and
opponents?
Stakeholder
Management
Key Activities
What key activities are
required to deliver the
value proposition?
Public Value
Proposition
What kind of public value is
created?
Which public value is delivered?
What urban problems are solved?
In what domain is the application,
e.g.
Smart Energy
Smart Mobility
Smart Water
Smart Public Services
Smart Buildings
…
Key Partners
Who are the key
partners?
Key Resources
What key resources are
required to deliver the
value proposition?
Toolbox for City Developers
Smart City Canvas: Public Value Proposition
Source:ChristianPfister,StephanHaller,undEduardKlein.2019.TowardsaSmartCityBlueprint
Template.InProceedingsofthe13thInternationalConferenceonDigitalSocietyand
eGovernments–ICDS2019,Athens,February24-28,2019,pages30-36.
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Value Chain for Smart City Applications
From Smart City Application Blueprint Template
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Adapted from (Porter, 1985) and (Laaboudi, D'Ouezzan 2016)
CoreElements
Supporting
Activities
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Do you need a Smart City Strategy?
Example: Zürich
Source: City of Zurich
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Toolbox for City Developers
Smart City Strategy Framework
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Smart
City
• Population
• Development Stage
• Political System
• Education Level
• Pressures
City Context
• Governance Model
• Citizen Involvement
• Motivation
• City Role
• Process Responsibility
• Business Sector Development
• Approach
• Regional Cooperation
Governance
• Implementation Model
• Application Domains
• Performance Measures
Implementation
• Data Infrastructure
• Networking Infra. (WLAN, IoT)
• Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Smart
City
Source:HallerS,NeuroniA,FraefelM,andSakamuraK(2018):PerspectivesonSmartCities
Strategies:SketchingaFrameworkandTestingFirstUses.InProceedingsof19thAnnual
InternationalConferenceonDigitalGovernmentResearch(dg.o’18),AnnekeZuiderwijkAand
HinnantC(Eds.).ACM,NewYork,NY,USA,Article4,9pages.
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β
Implementation Models
Start with single
application, expand
from there
Example(s)
▶ Sapporo
▶ Winterthur
▶ Yokosuka
Platform as a basis
for all Smart City
applications
Example(s)
▶ Vienna
▶ Murcia
Enable different
stakeholders to try and
test different applications
Example(s)
▶ Amsterdam
Anchor Platform Beta-city
Source:JeremyGreen.2016.TheSmartCityPlaybook:
smart,safe,sustainable:StrategyReport.
TechnicalReport.MachinaResearch.
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Effecting Transformation & Innovation
Top-Down
▶ Traditional approach
▶ Often slow
▶ No failures accepted
Bottom-Up
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▶ Co-Creation, building
on knowledge,
engagement and true
needs of citizens
▶ Fast
▶ Fail to learn
Typical Instruments
➜ Citizen Fora
➜ Hackathons
➜ Community Platforms
➜ Business Incubation Services
➜ …
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Bottom-Up Infrastructrure
The Things Network: Coverage Amsterdam
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Source: The Things Network, https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/
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▶ First edition held Dec. 17, 2017 – May 18, 2018
approx. 100 submissions
▶ Now running in its 3rd edition
Example
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▶ Cities need to learn from each other
▶ What works, what doesn’t…
▶ Needs
▶ Focus on public value, not technology
▶ Standardisation and interoperability
▶ The project conducted 3 open city workshops
▶ 2 in Tokyo, co-located with the TRON Symposium
▶ 1 in Bilbao, as part of IoT Week
▶ Cooperation with OASC (Open & Agile Smart Cities)
Connecting Cities
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Research Community
▶ Concepts & Tools
▶ Projects
Education
▶ Courses on Open Data,
Smart City, IoT, Project
Management
Continued Usage of Project Results
Cities
▶ Platform & Toolboxes
▶ Standard Interfaces
▶ Strategy Development
▶ Transfer of Use Cases
▶ New Use Cases
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Key Learning
Successful digital transformation rests on 5 pillars
Data
for fact-based
decisions
Inter-
connection
People, machines,
ideas
Openness
Open digital city
culture and
willingness to
learn
Innovation
Policies
Fostering of
creativity and
innovation
Participation
Population, public
authorities,
economic sector
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