Presentation done during the EIT ICT Labs Urban Life and Mobility end-year event in Issy les Moulineaux on December 18th, 2014. http://www.eitictlabs.eu/innovation-areas/urban-life-and-mobility/

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

2. 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 ?

3. Greenfield Brownfield
How to deal with legacy,
and how to take advantage of it ?

4. When times are changing,
cities are also changing, or even moving
Bibracte (Gallic oppidum)
Autun

5. Small Medium Large
Does one size fit all ?
What are the real boundaries of a city ?

6. 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

7. 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)

8. Panoptic
Collaborative
Top-down and transversal !

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. This is a matter of transition!
Behaviour
Governance
Business
Any transition include risks, uncertainties,
creation and destruction of models

13. 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

14. 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

15. ULM Priorities and Stakes
Education
Entrepreneur
ship
Mobility
Market
Place
Urban
Data &
Information
Platform
Worldwide
Outreach
The mobility paradigm shift
Sense the heartbeat of the City

16. From Transport to Mobility
Move People, Goods or Information
The mobility market place

17. From silos to interconnected actors
Data browsers, data brokers and trusted third parties
A trusted digital ecosystem

18. EIT ICT Labs
Urban Life and Mobility
gilles.betis@eitictlabs.eu
@GillesBetis
Thank you for your kind attention