2014 12-18 From Smart Cities to Smart Citizens

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From smart cities to smart citizens Gilles BETIS – Urban Life & Mobility Action Line Leader @GillesBetis #RDULM14

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From smart cities to smart citizens Gilles BETIS – Urban Life & Mobility Action Line Leader

@GillesBetis #RDULM14

Trend Toward Smart Cities Bigger cities and an increased number of citizens

2013 50% world population living in cities

2020 50% Asia population living in cities

2035 50% Africa population living in cities

2050 +75% more people in cities, growing from 3.6 Billion to 6.3 Billion by 2050

What will be the reality and the diversity of our cities by these dates ?

Greenfield Brownfield

How to deal with legacy, and how to take advantage of it ?

When times are changing, cities are also changing, or even moving

Bibracte (Gallic oppidum)

Autun

Small Medium Large

Does one size fit all ? What are the real boundaries of a city ?

Growing Urbanization

http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps/maps_urban_2025.htm

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division: World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision. New York 2012

2025

1960

2011

1980

Percentage of urban population and agglomerations by size class

Growing Urbanization

http://esa.un.org/unup/Maps/maps_urban_2025.htm

City Size Class

Over 50% of urbanization involves cities of less that 500K people

Megacities are impressive but represent only 9.9% (13.6% in 2025)

Panoptic

Collaborative

Top-down and transversal !

Smart Cities or Smart Citizens? Must technology assist or empower ?

Smart Cities or Smart Citizens

Cities & People

Young Sam Kim – Dark Cities - http://youngsamkim.com

The city is […] a text written by millions of unknown writers […] read by millions of readers, each reading his or her own personal and subjective story in this ever-changing

chaotic text, thus changing and recreating and further complicating it. [Juval Portugali, 1997]

Gaming and hacking the city

Play Khayelitsha – A Visionary Local Business – © Play the City Studio

Value chains in the ecosystem

Citizens & Users

Urban Services Providers

Governance Bodies

Economical Actors

External value internalization

Internal value exchange

Value chains in the ecosystem

This is a matter of transition!

Behaviour

Governance

Business Any transition include risks, uncertainties,

creation and destruction of models

Frugal Development of the Smart Cities Creating more value for the citizens with less resources

§ Saving on investment with smart city planning & decision making

§ Not a low-cost city development, but § High quality development, less expensive § Focused on most important smartification

areas, with high leverage effects § Simple, understandable, hybrid § Leveraging on legacy resources, local

skills of people or experts

§ Ex : the Belfort Optymod case § Saving 50 Billions €, compared to an

equivalent tramway project §  Increasing ridership by 65% in 4 years

Creating and Sharing Value

Smart Cities create and share value for the urban ecosystem

Techno = Smart ?

Attractive

Inclusive

Sustainable

Resilient

Agile & Adaptive

Stable & Robust Processes

ULM Priorities and Stakes

Education

Entrepreneurship

Mobility Market Place

Urban Data &

Information Platform

Worldwide Outreach

The mobility paradigm shift Sense the heartbeat of the City

From Transport to Mobility Move People, Goods or Information

The mobility market place

From silos to interconnected actors Data browsers, data brokers and trusted third parties

A trusted digital ecosystem

EIT ICT Labs Urban Life and Mobility

[email protected] @GillesBetis

Thank you for your kind attention