The city as a laboratory a place for experimentation driven by innovation

Esteve Almirall ESADE  Business  School  

esteve.almirall@esade,edu

Increasing number diversity of services { }

Decreasing budgets

Re-invent cities (Smart Cities) . . .

Problem.-

Opportunity.-

Despite access to the same technologies applied by

these (private) innovators, our government had

historically failed to tap into the expertise of the

American people to help to solve our nation’s biggest

challenges.

Annesh  Chopra  U.S.A.  -­‐  CTO  

180.000 + jobs

Involving Citizens & Constituencies

Experimenting in

Urban Labs Prizes, Challenges & Competitions

Involving Citizens & Constituencies

Experimenting in

Urban Labs Prizes, Challenges & Competitions

Involving Citizens & Constituencies

Experimenting in

Urban Labs Prizes, Challenges & Competitions

Commons for Europe Open Cities

CitySDK

Smart World Capital Urban Labs

Involving Citizens & Constituencies

Experimenting in

Urban Labs Prizes, Challenges & Competitions

Commons for Europe Open Cities

CitySDK

Smart World Capital Urban Labs

managing ecosystems

marketplaces

OPEN  DATA  -­‐  ECOSYSTEMS  

Data  becomes  a  pla;orm  for  developers  to  create  apps  providing  unexpected  services  

a problem

How to provide an increasing number and diversity of ICT services while fostering innovation ecosystems?

The Old Way 1.0

you know the way it’s done now

The New Way Open Data

+ 2.0 -> Citizen talent

+ Fame and fortune

= ?

unexpected results when sharing data in Public

transportation

Portland - Oregon Sleep soundly. The iNap app will wake snoozing commuters as their stop approaches. Predict arrival. The city doesn't provide live GPS tracking of its trains and buses, but the app ArrivalTracker uses an algorithm and city API data to predict arrival times fairly well. Portland's Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District was one of the first to release actionable data, way back in 2008.

Fast Company, October 2011

unexpected results when sharing data in Public

transportation

Boston Crowdsource trouble. OpenMBTA searches Twitter to relay what problems riders are reporting. Hear it straight. How Fucked Is the T? bluntly sums up the state of each subway line like a native Bostonian would. Sample: If the Orange Line's average wait time is 5.5 minutes, the line "might be a little fucked.” Massachusetts has more than 200 mobile startups, which have developed dozens of transit apps for navigating the finicky Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Fast Company, October 2011

unexpected results when sharing data in Public

transportation

New York

Fast Company, October 2011

Come and go efficiently. Exit Strategy NYC lets subway riders fulfill the eternal Gotham need: leave and enter stations at the most convenient staircases. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has released limited data, so app development is slow. But that may change. The MTA's App Quest contest will give a combined $15,000 in prizes to transit app developers. Winners are announced November 1.

Data Catalog

Apps Contests

Civic Innovator Networks

Ecosystem Profit-

non profit

Civic Innovation Marketplace

EXPERIMENTATION  –  URBAN  LABS  Learn  locally  to  compete  globally  

Urban Labs = Test spaces in the middle of the city

Urban Labs = The City as a Urban Laboratory

Urban Labs = Urban Living labs

Urban Labs = Real-life experimentation with users in Cities

Example: Urbiotica pilot - Barcelona

8 containers for: Trash Paper Glass Plastics

 Urban  Labs  –  Living  Labs    

Starting date: 2008 Pilot proposals received: 43 pilot proposals Pilot tested or testing actually: 14 pilots Domains: Enviroment, Mobility, Telecom, …

Some of the pilot projects that have been trialled to date are:

A Barcelona experience: Urban LabPilots

Some results

Implementation of 12 outdoor public street lighting points Eco Digital with LED technology. 2009

Implementation of 2 charging points for electric cars. 2009 Pilot trial of 1 electrically and solar powered motorbike . 2010

Promoció Econòmica

Pilot trial of 1 electrically and solar powered motorbike . 2010 Traffic control cameras. 2008 Metering: gas, electricity and water meters without presence.2009 Fibre optics in homes (FTTH) . 2008 Bicycle lanes. 2008 Presence sensors for the public parking payment areas. 2010 Barcelona Noise-map. 2010 Among others…

FASTPRK - Parking Sensors (30) - Worldsensing

When we thought that the system was operative we tested it in the 22@Urban Lab. Testing in real-life environments allowed us to improve aspects that we couldn't even think of in the lab. The Urban Lab has been our best laboratory.

Jordi Llosa- Development officer Worldsensing

SIIUR - LED Lighting Pilot (12) - Arelsa, Circuitor, Santa&Cole, e-Control, Prysmian, Semal

The SIIUR experience allowed us the development of the SmartTower, a new family of electrical boxes for Smart Cities.

Anna Urbiztondo - Project Development Director - SECE

SIIUR - LED Lighting Pilot (12) - Arelsa, Circuitor, Santa&Cole, e-Control, Prysmian, Semal

Because of the pilot and the experience acquired in the Urban Lab, Eindhoven chose SIIUR for environmentally sustainable city lighting in one of the main districts of the city.

Gemma Batlle- TIC Cluster Director - BDigital

Urban Labs

1.- To develop innovative products taking advantage of real-life environments and involving citizens in design, proof of service and proof of business validation.

2.- Bridge the cognitive distances between city

administrations and innovative companies. 3.- Create an initial demand & provide a

showcase for innovative solutions.

- learn locally, compete globally-

apps  ConnecCng  ciCzens,  reinvenCng  ciCzenship,  sharing,  reusing,  finding,  …  

ADOPT-­‐A-­‐WHATEVER…  An  App  Becomes  a  Pla;orm  

1  App.  7  CiEes.  Many  Uses.  

Boston,  MA  SeaJle,  WA  Chicago,  IL  Buenos  Aires,  ArgenCna      

Honolulu,  HI  Norfolk,  VA  Bloomington,  IN  

And  more  everyday…  

OPEN  CITIES    Open  InnovaCon  in  the  Public  Sector  

Objectives 1)  Explore how to approach Open & User Driven

Innovation Methodologies in the Public Sector, particularly Smart Cities.

ü  Best Practices. ü  Innovation Management in the Public

Sector. ü  Platform governance.

2)  Trigger Rich Internet Services & Platforms through four mechanisms.

ü  Ideas -– Crowdsourcing. ü  Living Labs -–Urban Labs. ü  Data - Open Data (static & dynamic-Sensors). ü  Networks - Open FTH networks.

ESADE Barcelona Activa

Atos Origin UPF – Univ. Pompeu Fabra

DotOpen Tempos21

Cap Digital Institut Telecom

City of Amsterdam Dutch

Berlin Senate Fraunhofer FOKUS

Helsinki

Berlin Amsterdam Paris

Barcelona

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Rome

NESTA

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COMMONS  4  EUROPE    Code  for  Europe  

CITY  SDK    A  Common  API  for  Europe  

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CitySDK Reason: Enhance the development capability and between-city transfer of Smart City Applications. Service Development Kit for the pan-European City: A Software Toolkit and APIs, example Applications and Widgets, relevant guidelines, processes - open source Cities benefit from a healthy developer ecosystem (like tech companies, eg. Apple, Nokia, Microsoft, Google)

   

   

Why ?

- govs. - Service Providers

Platform orchestrators

resources to regulate (zero-sum game)

resources to leverage on (non zero-sum game)

- govs. - Service Providers

Platform orchestrators

developed in-house always fall short

high-cost no sharing local offer

fragmented

co-developed with users, communities

free and not-free empowering entrepreneurship

driven by innovation stimulating growth

- govs.- Service Providers

Platform orchestrators

esteve almirall esteve.almirall@esade.edu