Smart CitiesBased on ”Smart Cities of the Future”

ByMichael Batty (UCL, London),Kay Axhausen (ETH, Zurich),

Giannotti Fosca (Universit di Pisa),Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National University of Ireland),

Armando Bazzani (Universita di Bologna),Monica Wachowicz (University of New Brunswick),

Georgios Ouzounis (JRC),and Yuval Portugali (Tel-Aviv University)

UCL Working Paper Series, Paper 188, October 5, 2012, ISSN 1467-1298

One definition…“A city in which ICT is merged with traditional infrastructures,coordinated and integrated using new digital technologies”

”Smart Cities of the Future”, p. 1

But it is not a ICT workshop

…so be creative and think smart in more ways

• … relate the infrastructure of smart cities to their operational functioning and planning through management, control and optimization;

• … explore the notion of the city as a laboratory for innovation;

• … provide portfolios of urban simulation which inform future designs;

• … develop technologies that ensure equity, fairness and realize a better quality of city life;

Research challenges is to…

• … develop technologies that ensure informed participation and create shared knowledge for democratic city governance;

• … ensure greater and more effective mobility and access to opportunities for urban populations.

Research challenges is to…

Themes

ThemesCould there be a market for private education in innovation?

Is there a rising need for flexicurity services and job-ressource relation overview?

Is the tools for teaching innovation innovative enough?

ThemesCould there be a market for private education in creativity?

Is there a rising need customized training in life long learning?

Why are the tools and initiatives for integration failing – can they be re-thought?

Themes

Could there be a market for preventing/helping in case of identity theft?

Is there a rising need for privacy of data?

Why are we still voting on paper – is the link between citizen and decision making short enough?

ThemesCould there be a solution for individual but public transportation?

Why does it take 4 years to decide on a tram system and only 3 to built it?

”Rejsekort” – why are we slow in implementing last century technology instead of using 21st century solutions?

Themes

Could there be a market protecting local environment?

Is there a profitable way to ”go local” to minimize transport of goods?

What are the incetives to minimise your ecological footprint – and how do you know?

ThemesIs the ”individual safety market” only for property and personal safety?

When consuming culture increases online – what’s the opportunities in the city - IRL?

Health, fitness and self monitoring apps and wearables are huge – whats next?

Rules• Must be commercial business model to be

implemented in existing or new company

• Must not just be an app (no app-freemium business models)

• Target group cannot be international students or only students

Goal

Present a business concept structured by Pain, Cure, Profit

- just 5 minutes.