Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems for Future Internet Research – Empowered by Smart Citizens!

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. FIREBALL brings together different players to exploit the linkage between Smart Cities, Living Labs and Future Internet for Connected Smart Cities Innovation.

What can Smart Cities be about?• Usage of digital spaces and ICT to enhance the city and the city life

• Digital dimensions of cities – the new intelligence of cities

• Internet as medium for organizing collective intelligence of cities

• The city as an innovation space for Future Internet research and development

• Digital agendas for future city innovation strategies

• Smart people and Smart technology – making cities become Smarter together!

Key drivers from Smart Cities of Future Internet Open Innovation.• Socio-economic ambitions of large cities, but also city marketing

• Need for connectedness (cities – rural areas – regions)

• Broadband deployment experiences, need for applications pull after the infrastructure

• Technology push. Need to create experimentation environments to stimulate innovation

• Driving network development

• Impact of Internet infrastructure on business attractiveness of cities

• Need to create open innovation environments to attract business and knowledge centres

Topics adressed.• Creation of synergies and cooperation among different research and innovation communities related to the Future Internet

• Identification and access to common assets for Connected Smart Cities Innovation exploring Future Internet opportunities

• Creation of a Connected Smart Cities Innovation Network of advanced Smart Cities in Europe – exploring challenges how open innovation can support the uptake of Future Internet-enabled services in Smart Cities

Main target groups of FIREBALL CA.• Cities developing Smart/Intelligent city strategies

• Large companies developing platforms and applications for Smart Cities

• Researchers and experts performing research on the subject

• The Living Lab communitySmart Cities and FIRE.Smart Cities represent demanding users, innovation drivers and testbeds for the emerging technologies and experimentation with multiple devices and systems – involving the citizens of the cities!

Smart Cities and Living Labs.The Living Lab participatory processes combine both the strengths of collective intelligence and innovation capacity of people and the mediating role of ICTs in organising global value chains of suppliers and customers – Living Labs are Open Innovation Ecosystems of Smart Cities

Expected results from FIREBALL.• A European-wide community of Future Internet Innovation constiuencies (FIRE, Living Labs and Smart Cities)

• A common vision and shared agenda by these constiuencies

• Showcases to represent innovative uses and future needs of Future Internet in Smart Cities

• Identification of common concepts, methodologies, tools and processes among the different contituencies to work together for Future Internet Innovation

• A Connected European Smart Cities Network

• A roadmap and action plan for exploring Future Internet Innovation for Smart Cities

FIREBALL pioneering organisations.CORE pARTnERS: Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Aalto University Economics, European Society of Concurrent Enterprising Network, Manchester City Council, Amsterdam Innovation Motor, ESADE Business School, Alfamicro, Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, Lisboa E-Nova, City of Helsinki, INRIA, Dimes, IBBT, URENIO, University of Oulu, Media and Network cluster, Barcelona City Council

SuppORTIvE pARTnERS: City of Brussels, City of Stockholm, City of Nice, City of Luleå, City of Oulu, Region of Sicily, City of Agueda, Project Panlab

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June: FIREBALL at Eurocities meeting in Linköping – Sweden FIREBALL at ICE 2010 in Lugano – Switzerland

July: FIREBALL at FIRE-week in Barcelona – Spain

September: FIREBALL at ICT2010 in Brussels – Belgium

October: FIREBALL at Knowledge Society Forum in Birmingham – UK

november: FIREBALL at the Connected Smart City Mayor meeting in Helsinki – Finland

December: FIREBALL at FIA in Ghent – Belgium

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