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Eurocities & Ghent Living Lab: connecting innovation strategies to citizens
bart rosseau – e-Strategy - City of Ghent
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Eurocities
Challenge for Smart Cities is People:
Is a city as smart as its citizens?
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EurocitiesTwo Way Process
• Enable member Cities projects– Fireball– Apollon– NICE– Green Digital Charter
• Inform EU decision makers on Cities’ experiences
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Ghent Living Lab• Link between ambitions (Ghent Digital
Agenda) and Citizens’ potential• Network between SME’s, Hacktivists,
Researchers, Students, Citizens and Government
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Ghent Living Lab
• Pre-launch:– Crowdsourcing ideas for SmartIP
• Launch– Stakeholders– Focus– Panel-recruitment
• Projects– People want to contribute– People want to shape their city
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Projects
• SmartIP• Citadel on the Move• Open data– Apps for Ghent– 2012-2013: student involvement in open data
• New ways to fight poverty: iDrops Social Innovation Lab
• Bluemap: bluetooth tracking for crowd mgmt
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Horizon 2020
• Smart Cities are key in realising EU Goals
• Emphasis in EU budget 2014-2020 would be a phenomenal boost
• Local government instrumental in innovation and research
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Thank you.
• www.eurocities.eu
• www.ghentlivinglab.be
• www.gent.be