Looking for the Mediterranean Creativity and

Innovation dimensions: The Lisbon example

Manuel NinaBologna, 23rd October 2014

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Smart City Med Panel: Scenarios for Smart Cities of Mediterranean

Overview

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• The Mediterranean context

• Some Portuguese experiences

• Lisbon successful example

• Human Smart Cities – Urban Innovation Ecosystem

• New wave of opportunities for the Mediterranean

European Financial Crisis:

The Mediterranean dimension

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Are we pigs??!

The Mediterranean: Centuries of Innovation and

Leadership

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SANJOTEC LIVING LAB

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Growth rate of 20% in 2013

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FIAPAL LIVING LAB

Volkswagen AutoEuropa

Lisbon: a

participatory and

innovative city

Participative democracy / Open Government

• Participatory budgeting

• Open data and

participation

• Partnerships with

universities and research

centers

The Citizen

as a “client”

The Citizen

as partner

Governance and participation

Lisbon was the first European Capital adopting the Participatory Budget(PB), and this experience is referred to as an

innovative example by the UN

PB is a tool for citizen participation

with the goal of supporting decision

making processes in all the fields of

competence of the city, through on

line media

The Participatory Budget Experience

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Proposals 580 533 927 808 659 551 669

Projects 89 200 291 228 231 208 211

Number

of votes1.101 4.719 11.570 17.887 29.911 36.000 *

Facts and Figures

The Participatory Budget Experience

Participation Initiatives

PARTICIPATION TREE

The Participatory Budget Experience

Winning projects

The Participatory Budget Experience

Winning projects

The Participatory Budget Experience

• +100 startups supported

• +250 jobs

• 5 million Euro gathered

• 40 Mentors

• +50 partners

• 30 events in last 6 months

• 600 applications received in last6 months

• +20 national and internationalawards

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LISBON:

START UP

CITY A start up city

Pursuing the goal of making Lisbon a city open to the exploration of new motivations, experiences, concepts and innovations, the Lisbon City Council has been supporting different types of events and initiatives in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation.

• Lisbon Challenge• ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal• Explorers festival• Demo Day Startup Lisboa• Startup Pirates @ Lisboa• SWITCH Conference• Bootcamp TiE Lisboa• Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon• TEDx Lisboa• Sandbox Global Summit

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVENTS IN THE CITY OF LISBON

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A start up city

_FabLab de Lisboa, a place whereyou can do (almost) everything

FAB LAB LISBOA

Lisbon Fablab

Lisbon Fablab

Academia LX

• Promote investigation for areas

where there is the need to search

for new solutions to new problems

that face modern cities;

• Annualy, Lisbon City Council

submits to universities and

investigation centers a set of

practical questions that are of

interest to the city;

• A prize will be given to the most

interesting and useful research work

Partnerships with universities

and research centers

Cities currently face the

challenge of putting citizens at

the center of their priorities and

the priorities of the actors within

research activities

In this context, it was created

the Prize ‘LX Academy’, aiming to

support the best research

project oriented to obtain

innovative responses to

problems and opportunities

posed by Lisbon.

A City of knowledge

City SDK

• Harmonizing access to open data in

8 european cities through a

common API – Service Development

Kit;

• Promoting the creation of a

common market for apps in europe;

• The knowledge of the city at the

palm of the hand of it´s citizens –

contributing to a smart city;

http://www.citysdk.eu/

Open Data

Lisbon Big Apps

• BIG DATA + BIG IDEAS = BIG APPS;

• A Big Sucess, 200 teams entered the

competition – three selected

winners and three honorable

mentions;

• Promoting the knowledge of the city

and the creation of startups trough

app creation and usage;

Open Data

• MyNeighbourhood is about bringing technology to the core of city neighbourhoods.

• The pilot cities are Lisbon (Mouraria and Marvila), and other neighborhoods in

Aalborg (Denmark), Birmingham (UK) and Milan (Italy).

• We are demonstrating that technology can be a social enabler in the fight against

the increasing loss of traditional neighborhood structures, culture and activities.

• The MyN Platform is a social platform in the neighbourhood, boosting local services,

local culture and education and local entrepreneurship.

• Co-design and Co-creation with the people is the

gold methodology.http://my-neighbourhood.eu/

https://facebook.com/MyNeighbourhood.eu

MyN Platform – my-n.eu

MyNeighbourhood

MyN Co-designTools of WIN methodology

Wishes, Interests and Needs (WIN)

Context Analysis and Citizens engagement and

motivation in Mouraria, Lisbon

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• Identify local community leaders;

• Identify Current Activities and Projects;

• Selection of key stakeholders to be involved in the Project;

• Presentation of MyNeighbourhood;

• Alignment of interests;

• Engagement in co-design and co-creation workshops with the community leaders and progressively extending to the citizens.

Co-design and Co-creation activities Co-design of ideas

The FIWARE Lisbon CaseThe concept

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Two scenarios were explored in Lisbon:

• The first scenario

• Integration of the Open Data sets from several data sources available

in Lisbon with the FIWARE platform, making use of the Generic

Enablers and the results of CitySDK and Citadel tools.

• The second scenario

• Integration in FI-WARE and MyNeighbourhood Platform as also

other platforms:

- MyNeighbourhood Platform – platform to support the

implementation of Human Smart Cities developed and implemented by

DRI.

- Open Data Platform – a generic platform of Lisbon Municipality

Open Data;

- Mobility Platform – an urban mobility platform developed and

implemented by IPN;

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Technical Solution – The new city in the cloudFIWARE – MyNeighbourhood Integration

Human Smart Cities

Co-created by governments and citizens

Human Smart Cities use technologies as an enabler to connect and engage government and citizens, aiming to

rebuild, recreate and motivate urban communities, stimulating and supporting their collaboration activities

leading to a joint increase of social wellbeing.

Human Smart Cities hear and speak with citizens and provide technical support and Policy to become the city government more transparent, participatory, efficient and a mirror of the

citizens’ will.

Human Smart Cities empower citizens to co-design and co-create solutions for their Wishes, Interests and Needs (WIN),

recreating a new sense of belonging and identity.

Human Smart Cities NetworkTools and Methodologies

Human Smart Cities Conference

Bologna, Italy - 17th October 2013

Human Smart Cities Launching

Human Smart Cites Conference

Lisbon, Portugal – 12th-13th March 2014

Human Smart Cities Network Consolidation

Forum PA – Human Smart Cities Conference

Rome, Italy – 30th May 2013

www.humansmartcities.eu

Human Smart Cities Pannel

Brasilia, Brazil – 29th July 2014

EU Policy Initiatives

• At least 5% of the ERDF dedicated to integrated actions for sustainable urban development delegated to urban authorities;

• Tackle economic, environmental, climate, demographic and social challenges;

• Need for integrated interventions at neighbourhoodand local level;

• Taking into account the need to promote urban-rural linkages;

• Need for innovative approaches.

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A wave of new opportunities for the Mediterranean

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Sustainable and competitive agriculture Health Tourism

Cultural Heritage

Active aging

A wave of new opportunities for the Mediterranean

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EntrepreneurshipUnique geographical position

Conclusions (1/3)

• Addressing Mediterranen issues requires a common effort

– Capturing the potential of increasing civic participation together with new technology potentials

– RDI leading to deep societal transformations: from welfare state to a human-centric service society

• Regional Innovation Strategies must broaden their scope to support this process

– Blending both technological and social innovation, research processes as catalyst

– Competitive enterprises embedded in Regional communitiesand emergent service ecosystems

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Conclusions (2/3)

• Regions have the greatest share of resources for promoting

Territorial Innovation and are where the benefits of

Innovation Policies can be most visible.

• Regions can take a leading, demand-driven role in

introducing transversal Innovation Policies, mixing technical

and non-technical participation and linking Creative Region

strategies to Territorial Innovation (Living Labs).

• Living Labs co-creation of innovation address all dimensions

of Regional Development Policies

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Living Labs policies provide regional, cross-

border and trans-national integration

Conclusions (3/3)

• The big global challenges of our time demand mass participation of users/consumers/citizens. Finding solutions requires the pooling of diverse types of knowledge and resources, and harnessing the motivation of millions of individuals and their communities.

• Technologies are not sufficient to solve the challenges in a sustainable way, user behavior transformation is required and this can be enabled by the Living Lab methodologies.

• Future Internet technologies, Living Labs and Social Innovation enable Smart Regional and Smart MED co-creation and the creation of the Human Smart City where citizens sense of belonging and identity, wellbeing and togetherness, form a better and happier society.

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Thank You

Manuel Nina

manuel.nina@alfamicro.pt

www.alfamicro.pt35