Eurocities & Ghent Living Lab: connecting innovation strategies to citizens

bart rosseau – e-Strategy - City of Ghent

Eurocities

Challenge for Smart Cities is People:

Is a city as smart as its citizens?

EurocitiesTwo Way Process

• Enable member Cities projects– Fireball– Apollon– NICE– Green Digital Charter

• Inform EU decision makers on Cities’ experiences

Ghent Living Lab• Link between ambitions (Ghent Digital

Agenda) and Citizens’ potential• Network between SME’s, Hacktivists,

Researchers, Students, Citizens and Government

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

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

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

Thank you.

• www.eurocities.eu

• www.ghentlivinglab.be

• www.gent.be