Mika RantakokkoBusinessOulu

OULUDIGITAL CITY OF COOPERATION

Flemish Smart City Award 5.3.2018

CITIES ARE FACING A TRANSITION

+75% Cities will grow from 3.6 Billion to 6.3 Billion by 2050

50% + of urbanization involves cities < 500K people

Share of urban population- 1960 – 34%- 2017 – 54%- 2050 – 70%

Everything that can be digitized,will be digitized.

Data is the new oil!

The Economist

Role of cities: - From Open Data operator to Urban Information Framework manager- Enable conditions for value creation

Financial Times 23.1.2018

Malaysia’s capital will adopt ‘smart city’ platform from Alibaba

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/29/malaysia-alibaba-city-brain/

Smart city OULU

Draft

Transforming healthcare with 5G

TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE WITH 5G

”I think Oulu is the world’s best place, second to none, for

radio access engineering.”

Rajeev SuriCEO, Nokia

photo: www.nokia.com

Exfo

Haltian

Ginolis

Koukoi Games

Fingersoft

Harman

TactoTec

Polar

Bittium

Continental

Nordea

CGI

Tieto

Anite

Nordic Semiconductor

Mediatek

Sony-Altair

Texas Instruments

SpreadtrumVaimo

Yota Devices

Solita

Bitfactor

F-Secure

ARM

Tosibox

Verkotan

ROHM Semiconductor

NokiaSiili Solutions

IndoorAtlas

Koodiviidakko

OP-Pohjola

FujitsuEyelife

snapshot

Oulu – City of Cooperation

Co-operation makes Oulu a Smart City and

Driver of Northern Finland

OULU

EuropeDigital Transition Partnership

Smart City Oulu Collaboration

Finland6Aika

City

OIA

OULU INNOVATION ALLIANCE

Co-creating Arctic OpportunitiesBased on a long tradition of working together

• An innovation ecosystem boosting Oulu’s attractiveness that optimizes top know-how to form, develop and internationalize companies

• Oulu Innovation Alliance partnership focuses on five ecosystems/topics:

• Northern City with Attractive Opportunities• Industry 2026• OuluHealth• Agile Commercialization• ICT & Digitalization

ACTIVE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS

Strategy for sustainable urban development carried out by the six largest cities in Finland: Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku and Oulu. The main objective of the strategy, which will be carried out in 2014–2020, is to create new know-how, business and jobs in Finland

Funded by ITI – Integrated Territorial Investment tool

Internationally significant marketplace: 30% of Finnish population lives in the six cities

Helsinki 640 767Espoo 277 116Tampere 229 288Vantaa 221 503Oulu200 649Turku 187 717

Facts and figures

• 190 000 students, 10 universities & 9 universities for applied sciences

• 41,5% of the all jobs in Finland are in the Six Cities• 99 700 people work in the city organisations • Top 3 industries in the Six Cities

• Services• Commerce and traffic• Industries

National impact of the regions of the Six Cities:• 40 % of total company revenues • 61% of GDP is produced • 75% the RDI expenditure

Three focus areas

● Open innovation platforms ● Open data and interfaces ● Open participation and customership

Are used to create new know-how, business and jobs by utilizing openness, digitalization and partnerships

Quadruple Helix

as a framework of

the Six City Strategy

Spearhead projects

● Three spearhead projects where all six cities involved● Build the basic functions of the focus areas and create the

preconditions for carrying out innovation activities ○ In cooperation with companies and other operators

● Duration three years● Funded from ERDF, budgets from 8-12 million €

Pilot projects,such as... E.g. smart mobility, cities as a testbed, gaming and learning, health and wellbeing, urban data modeling, opening and utilizing in business...

Learning from other

cities

More systemic

collaboration

Stronger developer network

Stronger innovation

culture

Seeing city as an

ecosystem

Better resources & know-how for urban

innovations

Seeing the opportuni-

ties of digitalisation

More customer

orientation in cities

Seeing city as an

innovation platform

Agile, scalable

experimen-tation models

Opening data & enabling

new business

New service production

models tested

New, innovative

procurement processes

tested

New operation models,

platforms & praxis

Some results & findings so far

An Innovation Platform Network of Finland's Six Biggest Cities

@Rantakokko - #citybusiness - #SCEWC17

Examples of6AikaTools

• Smart City making can be slow• Cost of integration and implemention

• Change resistance

• Facilitation is an essential part of the process

• Work with services that add value to the users.• Meaningful services provide meaningful data

• Pilot, experiment, DO - together• It makes sense to copy and share

• Competing vs. Partnering

Some key learnings from 6Aika... so far

EU Urban Agenda Digital Transition Partnership

Digital Transition

Partnership

CITY OF OULU COORDINATES EUROPEAN URBAN DIGITALISATION DEVELOPMENT

Digital Transition Partnership is for: • Better public services to citizens• Support European cities in exploiting the

possibilities of digitalisation• Help European businesses to develop new

innovations and create new business opportunities for global markets.

Digital transitionPartnership

1. Better Regulation

2. Better Funding

3. Better Knowledge,

BETTER

❑ Regulation

❑ Funding

❑ Knowledge

eGov Future Health

Urban Planning

Business Models*

Data & Standards*DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

Efficient and inclusive public administrations

End-to-end digital public services

Interoperability

Connectivity and equality in access

Quality of life ...

5G & Key Enabling TechnologiesNEW BUSINESS GROWTH IN EU URBAN AREAS

Digital Skills*

Goals of the actions

• Generalize and diffuse digital skills to everybody• Enable and implement citizen-centric e-government• Provide value through free and fair access to

open/public/personal data• Accelerate and adopt digital emerging technologies in cities• Adopt business model thinking to drive urban digital

transition• Strengthen the ability for cities to act within the digital

transition

∙Mainstreaming EU Digital Competence Framework for citizens into daily use ∙Digital Neighborhood Instrument∙Capacity-Building and Spreading of Pilots in Regions and Cities

Generalise and diffuse digital skills to everybody

∙Helping cities develop a user-centric eGovernment model∙Developing the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) at local level (“DESI local”)

Enable and implement citizen-centric e-government

∙Data taxonomy at a European level∙Access and reuse of private sector data of general interest by the public authorities∙Specify and monitoring of standardized Planned Land Use data for formal and informal urban planning participation processes ∙ European roadmap on MyData

Provide value through free and fair access to open/public/personal data

∙Building innovation and dissemination accelerator∙Support agile experimentation of emerging digital technologies∙Implementing the digital framework for emerging technologies within the digital infrastructure

Accelerate and adopt digital emerging technologies in cities

∙Co-creating a business model approach for cities∙Development of 5G regulation to enable local micro-operators in cities

Adopt business model thinking to drive urban digital transition

∙Implementing Digital transition in European Cities, with help of Digital Transition Funding Programme

Strengthen the ability for cities to act within the digital transition

Innovating out of the Box!

• Avanto-kuva

• Ilmakitara-kuva

- Cities are one of the driving forces in digital transition – supporting citizens and companies

- European platforms are needed to guarantee our competitive edge in global digitalisation competition - cities must act proactively to avoid slowing down the progress

OULUDIGITALIZING THE

WORLD

AT YOUR

SERVICE

FOR MORE INFORMATION:mika.rantakokko@businessoulu.comtel. +358 469 227 227

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