smart cities and smart ict

Danube University Krems.

The University for Continuing Education.

Smart Cities &

Smart ICT

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5 December | 2013 | Department for E-Governance

Danube University Krems. The University for Continuing Education. NiCE project study visit

Who we are

• Center for E-Governance, Danube University Krems

• Research on the Intersection of

– Government Processes and Procedures

– Government Stakeholders: Citizens, Business

– ICT

• Advanced training towards MSc & MBA in Management & IT

http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/department/gpa/telematik/index.php

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Our Projects

• City of Vienna

– Study on the implementation of the Open Government strategy

– Support on Open Data projects

– ICT usage towards a smarter City

• Austrian Chancellery

– Project Group eDemocracy and Workplace of the Future

– Open Data Applications for Austria

– Development of Open Government Data Standards

• Ministry of Finance

– Re-occuring jour fixe with IT-department

1. FACTS

Cities give home to +50% of

Mankind As of ~ 2009, more than 50% of world’s

population is living in cities

Until 2050, this will rise to 75%

For western civilizations this is today already at 75%

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/global_cities_of_the_future_an_interactive_map

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/global_cities_of_the_future_an_interactive_map

Cities

Cities are a melting pot of Growth & Innovation

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FACTS

In 2020, 600 cities will account for

65% of BNP

80% of BNP is generated in cities (in developed countries)

USA: 90% of BNP, 86% of Jobs are

produced on 3% of land

http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-politics/cities-of-the-future-2484

http://www.unhabitat.org/cdrom/docs/wuf1.pdf

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/11/20/cities-solve-problems




















Cities

require us to redefine

Imagination & Reality

Babylon

Atlantis

Metropolis

2. Claims

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CLAIMS

Urban areas contribute disproportionally to national

productivity. However, the structural productivity of

cities will at least in part rest upon an efficient

supply of serviced land and reliable infrastructure,

including transport, power, water and sanitation as

well as information & communication technologies.

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UN Habitat Report State of the World's Cities 2012/2013, p. xiv http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387

http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387

http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387

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CLAIMS

1. Smart Cities are characterized by informed decisions

based on facts by government representatives and

private parties (Citizens, Economy, NGOs)

2. Information Technology enabling the free-flow of Data

& Information will contribute to the smartness of a City

3. Traditional understanding of city-planning will have to

evolve to meet the challenges of an interconnected

world

Wait – Plan – Build – Hope

The traditional

planning approach

The new approach Ask – Integrate – Co-create – Innovate

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The quadruple Helix http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/quadruple-helix-dna_n_2527882.html

Local Government

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/about-open-innovation









“Data is the Oil of the 21st Century” Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda

(without pollution side effects)

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Open Data Portal

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Open Data Portal

Berlin Vienna

290 Data sets

16

Apps

196 Data sets 110

Applications

3. Smart City Smart ICT

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Smartness – Viewport & Dimensions

Inside Outside Stakeholder viewport: Smart Citizens vs. Smart Administration

Dimensions

Social together: Citizen, Business drivers government bodies

Functions: Transport, sewage system, environment protection

Facilities: Re-creational, entertainment, Education, jurisdiction

Who?

What for?

What is?

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Smartness and the Role of ICT

Splatters from the Internet – What constitutes a smart

city?

• … efficiency based on the intelligent management and

integrated ICT

• … ability to solve problems and use of ICTs to improve

this capacity

• … main focus is still on the role of ICT infrastructure

• … investments into ICT

Smart Economy Smart Mobility

Smart Governance Smart People

Smart Living

Smart Environment

ICT is the mortar which ties building blocks together

Policies Values

Organisation & Processes Enabler

Smart Governance Steering

Supportive Measures

Smart City Strategy Smart

Economy

Smart Mobility

Smart People

Smart Living Smart

Environment

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Influencers to ICT-Smartness Factor Identification

• Good Governance: ICT usage to leverage many eyes and many opinions

• Sensor networks: Smart power grids, user sensors

• Situation-aware devices: GPS sensors and ambient technologies

• User generated design: 3-D printers

• Real time data, open data, business intelligence

• Intelligent transport and routing

• Visualisations, Simulations and scenario planning

• Usability and applicability

• E-Learning and distant education

• Seed funding and venture capital

Pervasive data all around

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User sensors?

Sensing Sydney – Datensätze von BürgerInnen

http://sensingsydney.com/explore/#/feed/



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ICT-Factors contributing to the Smart City Strategy

Guiding principles

1. Value is defined by the city stakeholders;

2. Technology and stakeholder groups are an entity;

technological solutions influence the stakeholders;

3. Isolated technical solutions are meaningless;

4. Interoperability is always beneficial;

5. Increased verified information leads to better decisions;

6. Intensity of ICT usage is inappropriate to predict the

contribution towards the Smart City goals

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Next steps

• Desk research on Factors

• Factor clustering

– Possible Dimensions: Involving human interaction, Governance,

ICT, Education, Innovation & Creativity

• Test ICT Smartness assessment model on projects

• Model refinement

• Visualisation and comparison of project ICT-smartness

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To consider

• Qualitative or quantitative model?

– What does a smartness value of „25“ express?

– Is a project of smartness value 10 only half as smart compared

to a project of smartness value 20?

– Who can reliably and mostly unbiased assess projects according

to their smartness?

• Use results for benchmarking?

• Integrate into planning process

– Make smartness contribution compulsory

for every new ICT project?

Cities take us 4.

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G7 / G8 / G20 C-40

Rural structures dominate cities - Federal government paralysed by shut down.

„New York garbage has to be removed nonetheless.“

Challenges no longer met by nations?

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Terms & Associations

City Nation

Function Identity

Work, innovation & creativity Cultural origins

What you do and how you do it – aims and interests

Who you are and where you come from

Advertisement Flags

Motion - driven by aspiration Static - defined by history

Collaboration Power

Mayors discuss garbage and snow removal Prime ministers / chancellors proclaim distinctive identities

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An idea not that revolutionary

• Democracy was born in the Polis, the city-states of

ancient Greece

• Literature on that topic

Deadline for the submission of papers, workshop proposals, reflections:

6. January 2014 Notification of acceptance

7. February 2014 Camera-ready paper submission

28 February 2014

Conference

21. - 23. May 2014

• Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation • E-Democracy and E-Participation • E-Voting • Bottom-Up Movements • Social and Mobile Media for Public Administration • Open Collaborative Government • Democracy, Globalization and Migration • Connected Smart City • Technology and Architecture • Self-governance in Complex Networks • Rethinking Information Visualization for the People • Freedom and Ethics in Digital Societies • Design and Co-creation for E-democracy

• PhD Colloquium

Important Deadlines

IKT Information

Kommunikation Technologie

Umwelt

Wirtschaft

Bildung

Soziale Inklusion

Forschung, Technologie, Innovation

Gesundheit

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