changing spaces

Creating a smart city

Changing spaces

Digital Urban Strategist

Digital Urban Designer

Urban Geographer

International Economist

Entrepreneur

Developed several fiber networks

Developed city-wifi network

Creative industries

Establishment and Investements

City marketing

More people in the world own a phone than a toothbrush

People watch 150 times a day at their phone. A chain smoker 60 times a day at a pack of cigarettes

Lively city centers?

Not necessary for purchases anymore?

You go there for fun / experience

But what if nobody is in the city center?

From industrial to individual

But municipalities do not actively play a role in virtual space?

Public space is widely influenced by internet,

Municipalities act in physical public space,

Cities focus on bricks

Cities are poorly present in online communities

We live in a world of communities,

not municipalities

Internet is the key changemaker and will continue to shake the world we know

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created

them."

New ServicesEnvironment, Health, Entertainment, City Services, Social

Society (Demographics e.g.)

Environment

Economics

New Business Models and Eco-systems

Innovation

Technology Organization

Create a Need for

Create a Need for

Comes in two ways

AND ARE ONE

Create a Need for

Need

• To retain lively city centers• Vibrant local economy• Innovation eco-systems• sustainability

The City as a holostic experience

Experience driven instead of environment, energy etc.

• Many smart cities focus on energy and build an Urban OS

• Our projects focus on smart people and interaction.

• Make technology human

Create a platform for innovation and activate citizens

From infrastructure focused to a strategic part of urban development

Fully integrated physical, economic and digital master planning

Internet-based innovation eco-system

Projects

Focus on :1. Infrastructure (access)We focus on SMEs but access to means for innovation is limited. Large corporations own and control infrastructures. Investments costs are to high for many SMEs. We create innovation platform for SMEs

MAKE TECHNOLOGY HUMAN

2. InteractionEngagement is a key to change the eco-systems. We need new ways to communicate. A city is a center of human interaction.

Create

• A platform for innovation• Infrastructure for new eco-systems

smarth growth, through an economy based on knowledge and a broad concept of innovation. The strategy emphasizes growth in small and medium sized businesses and microbusinesses, and the establishing of networks and infrastructure for small actors. (Fireball)

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