The Future Internet PPP and the CONCORD Project, Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL President, European Parliament, 3rd Innovation Summit, OPEN DAYS, October 11th, 2011

1. THE FUTURE INTERNET
PPP AND THE CONCORD
PROJECT
Prof. Álvaro de Oliveira // Aalto University // ENoLL
11.10.2011
Future Internet, Smart Cities – Coming Your Way
3rd Innovation Summit at the European Parliament

2. CONTENT
• Why focus on the Future Internet?
• Roadmap towards Digital Economy
• Cities as systems of systems
• Implementation barriers for Digital Economy
• CONCORD and its impact
• Added value of CONCORD to the FI PPP Community
• Living Labs as catalyst of systemic innovation
• Added value of LLs to the FI PPP Community

3. WHY FOCUS ON THE FUTURE INTERNET?
• Future Internet is a core infrastructure in society, a
backbone for smarter cities and regions
• Novel societal and commercial usages are challenging
the original Internet architecture
• Increased urgency to:
- Assume systems perspective and analyze the market impacts
- Prioritise visions and research directions in ICT
- Accumulate critical mass and engage wider communities
- Align and work across Work Programs and Calls

4. ROADMAP TOWARDS DIGITAL ECONOMY
• Digital Single Market
• Openness and interoperability even in absence of
standards
• Increased online trust and security
• Internet for all through improved coverage
• Funds for innovation and ICT research
• Digital inclusion
• Digital public services

5. CONCORD
• Coordination and collaboration facilitation for the Next Generation FI
PPP
• Consortium with strong background in User Driven Open Innovation
(e.g Living Lab) and Smart City experimentation
• Applying the frameworks and principles of organizing, managing and
governing multi-stakeholder open innovation networks learned in the
CIP projects
• Advocate open innovation, early user involvement, SME
engagement and links to related initiatives

6. CONCORD PARTNERS

7. FITTING THE PIECES TOGETHER:
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
FI-­‐PPP
Users
FI-­‐PPP
Users
Ci+es
&
Ci+es
&
Regions
SMEs
Regions
SMEs

8. CONCORD IMPACT
• Accelerated development of experimental infrastructures for large-scale
trials
• Providing a comprehensive approach towards functionalities and non-
technical aspects (e.g. interoperability, openness, standards, data security
and privacy)
• Accelerated evolution of Future Internet infrastructure and ensured system
compatibility
• Emergence of open, secure and trusted service platform and scalable
networked applications through coordination and joint specifications
• Increased effectiveness and alignment of activities
• management of interdependencies, defining a use rights for platform use
• Increased economic service sustainability
• novel business models, cross-sector industrial partnerships & early user
involvement

9. ADDED VALUE FOR THE FI PPP COMMUNITY
• Advancing FI PPP implementation through the identification,
articulation, recommendation and consensus-building on the
identified technical and non-technical enablers for FI PPP
• Increased stability and sustainability of the communities
• Ensuring and facilitating the participation of SME’s, (user)
communities and citizens in addition to the incumbent players
• Tools, frameworks and open platforms for stakeholder
cooperation
• Increased visibility of the projects outcome and possible use
cases
• Bridging gaps in research and policies
• Networking and exchanging information concerning FI PPP

10. IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS FOR THE
DIGITAL ECONOMY

11. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE DIGITAL
ECONOMY
• Wicked problems call for diverse types of knowledge,
resource, participation and collaboration.
• Behaviour change requires the motivation of millions of
individuals and their communities; solutions cannot be
pushed.
• New, distributed and highly participatory systems imply
new roles for public and private spheres: demand/user/
citizen driven open RDI enabled by ICT.
Living
Labs
Open
eco-­‐systems
engage
and
mo+vate
stakeholders,
s+mulate
collabora+on,
create
lead
markets
and
enable
behavior
transforma+on

12. LIVING LABS

13. LIVING LABS AS CATALYSTS OF SYSTEMIC
INNOVATION

14. ENGAGING LIVING LABS: WHY SHOULD
YOU CARE?
“I feel the European Network of Living Labs is becoming a birthplace for
sustainable cities. The living labs are proving to be the ideal way to bring
citizens, government and businesses together for co-innovation. Living
labs give both governments and citizens a way to explore various options to
sustainable city initiatives and helps free them from limited choices
provided by the big IT vendors. City officials face overwhelming options in
selecting new technologies, and a living lab offers them a way to gain insights
through vendor-neutral research.”
Pieter Ballon, IBBT / i.Lab.o

15. ENGAGING LIVING LABS:
THE ADDED VALUE
Engagement from a double perspective:
• the living labs creating new products and services based on the
project outcomes (i.e. exploitation of the FI-PPP results); and,
• the FI-PPP projects using the services provided through the
Living Labs (i.e. real-life experimentation facilities for testing
purposes; co-designing services; etc.).

16. ENGAGING LIVING LABS:
THE PROCESS
The Stakeholder Workstream (SEWS) facilitates FI-PPP projects’ engagement with
the Living Lab community through a 2-step process:
• Supporting the analysis and selection of Living Labs (and related stakeholder
ecosystems) throughout Europe (and abroad) that will prove valuable stakeholders due
to their:
• STAKEHOLDER STRUCTURE
• INFRASTRUCTURE
• APPLICATION DOMAIN
• PREVIOUS FUTURE INTERNET EXPERIENCE(S)
• Providing the necessary mechanisms and instruments (e.g. common workspaces,
wikis; matching events; etc.) to interlink these selected Living Lab communities with the
FI-PPP projects

17. CREATING NEW MARKETS FOR EU SMART CITIES
TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES
ENoLL
Smart
Ci+es
Connected
Concord
in
Smart
Ci+es
Periphèria
|
CitySDK
|
Citadel
Africa,
Asia
and
Network
Brazil
World
Bank

18. BRING TOGETHER THE FI PPP OFFER AND
THE MARKET DEMAND
FI PPP ENoLL
Projects
Stakeholders
Living
Labs
Engagement
Technologies
Playground
Early
markets
Scientists / Engineers Funding sources Users / Consumers

19. BRING TOGETHER THE FI PPP OFFER AND THE
MARKET DEMAND COMMUNITIES
• Set-up the necessary communication channels and tools
• Bridge the engagement gaps between offer and demand through
proactive dissemination and mediation
• Facilitate and support the convergence of business requirements
• Link projects with existing networks and communities and
develop new networks
• Identify and proactively engage potential business partnerships
• Support the business partnership development, acting as
“midwifes” with tools (templates for NDAs, contracts, MoUs,
Letters of Intent, Business Plans, etc.) and proactive business
coaching.
• Identify adequate funding sources and facilitate their access
• Create follow up mechanisms and success indicators

20. BRING TOGETHER THE FI PPP OFFER AND THE
MARKET DEMAND COMMUNITIES
• Set-up the necessary communication channels and tools
• Bridge the engagement gaps between offer and demand through
proactive dissemination and mediation
• Facilitate and support the convergence of business requirements
• Link projects with existing networks and communities and
develop new networks
• Identify and proactively engage potential business partnerships
• Support the business partnership development, acting as
“midwifes” with tools (templates for NDAs, contracts, MoUs,
Letters of Intent, Business Plans, etc.) and proactive
business coaching.
• Identify adequate funding sources and facilitate their access
• Create follow up mechanisms and success indicators

21. GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT OF LIVING LABS

22. GLOBALIZATION OF ENoLL
• Brazilian Network of Living Labs (BNoLL)
• African Network of Living Labs (ANoLL)
• Chinese Network of Living Labs (CNoLL)
• Memorandum of Understanding with International organizations
- FAO Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (MoU and Action plan)
- United Forum Ubiquitous Network Industry and technology Development
Forum (China)
- Beijing City Administration and Public Service Innovation – Information
System and Equipment Center (CAISEC) China
- World Bank
- INSME International Network of SMEs (In progress)
- EEN Europe Enterprise Network (In progress)
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23. GLOBALIZATION OF ENoLL
THE CASE OF BRAZIL
• Amazon Living Lab - Fundação Feitosa (Manaus, Amazonas)
• Espirito Santo Cidadania Digital (Vitoria, Espirito Santo)
• Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency Living Lab (Campinas, São Paulo)
• Living Lab INdT - Well Being and Wealth Care LL (Manaus, Amazonas)
• Amazonas Living Lab (Manaus, Amazonas)
• BBILL (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais)
• EDP/Brasil Living Lab (São Paulo, São Paulo)
• Group Inter-Action Living Lab (Manaus, Amazonas)
• Habitat Living Lab (Vitoria, Espirito Santo)
• Rio Living Lab (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro)
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24. ENoLL ACTIVITIES IN BRAZIL

25. GLOBALIZATION OF ENoLL
THE CASE OF AFRICAN LIVING LABS
25th of September: Task
Task Force chaired by Force White Paper draft
the European Union including consultation
Commission and the feedback.
African Union 30th of September:
Commission created in White Paper Draft
Botswana on the 10th of released for wide public
May (ENoLL Workshop). consultation
World Bank as an 14-15th of November:
observer. White Paper Public
consultation of White
Co-creation of White Paper at ICT Forum,
Paper, Roadmap and Cape Town.
Action Plan for African 30th of November: Final
Living Labs. White Paper submited to
the European Union
Commission and the
African Union
Commission.

26. GLOBALIZATION OF ENOLL
THE CASE OF CHINA (CNOLL)
Workshops
• Energy Efficiency, Shanghai (13-14/10/2010)
• Beijing Energy Efficiency Workshop (22/11/2010)
• Beijing ENoLL Workshop (25/11/2010)
Existing Living Labs
• TianJin-China Living Lab
• China Mobile Research Institute
• Mobile Life Club of China - MC²
• Living Lab of China Mobile Communication Corporation
(LLCM)

27. GLOBALIZATION OF ENOLL
UPCOMING EVENTS
• Shanghai, China - ENoLL Workshop (17th October 2011)
• Beijing, China - ENoLL Workshop ( 18th – 19th October 2011)
• Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil – 1st EU – Brazil Innovation –
Living Labs Conference (3rd – 4th November 2011)
• Athens, Greece - Smart Cities. Urban Living Labs a bridge to
the World (10th – 11th November 2011)
• Cape Town, South Africa – 4th Euro – Africa Cooperation
Forum on ICT Research – Living Labs Workshop (14th – 15th
November 2011)
• Beijing, China – Innovation Conference (1st – 2nd December
2011)

28. SME ENGAGEMENT – UPCOMING
OPPORTUNITIES

29. THANK YOU!
Prof. Álvaro de Oliveira
CONCORD
President of the European Network of Living Labs
Chair of the Council
European Network of Living Labs