Presentation at the 2nd International Workshop SISC-DISES in Nice (france). Cities increasingly face challenges regarding participation and collaboration in order to become a “smart city”. The world’s best cities to live in are not the ones with the most advanced technological layers but cities that create an atmosphere where citizens, companies and government together build a vital and sustainable innovation platform. A platform strategy enables cities to engage the most important stakeholders. As a result, quadruple helix innovation contributes to a smarter city. Furthermore, we believe that an open technological infrastructure such as FIWARE is a key enabler for sharing big data from IoT services. In this presentation we present smart city cases from Enschede, Hamburg and Berlin. Furthermore, we show results from our own research projects comprising urban platforms, data visualizations and real-time city dashboards.

1. Platform innovation, data-driven applications and participatory governance
By Dr. Robin Effing and Dr. Mettina Veenstra
2nd International Workshop SISC-DISES in Nice (fr)
Smart City Strategy
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2. Introduction
Saxion University of Applied Sciences
School of Creative Technology
Research Group Smart Cities
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3. Effing & Groot:
The Social Smart City Framework
Source: Effing & Groot (2016) Social Smart City: Introducing Digital and Social
Strategies for Participatory Governance in Smart Cities

4.  “How can we use the already available data?”
 Main strategy: supporting Bottom up based small projects
 Strategy was not defined in a policy plan
 City center as a living-lab
 Collaboration structure is currently focusing on universities
 Absence of an overarching vision or plan (will follow in 2018)
Source: Spil, Effing & Kwast (2017): Smart City Participation: Dream or Reality? A
Comparison of Participatory Strategies from Hamburg, Berlin & Enschede

5.  Comprehensive strategy plan was developed (Berlin’s Smart City Strategy)
 Strategic focus: international competitiveness
 Smart city Berlin networks holds over 100 members of various organizations
 The citizens are the most important component of the strategy
 Most elaborate part in practice: Open Data innovation strategy, however mostly
universities make use of the data
 Lacking implementation schedule (a strategy is as good as its implementation)
Source: Spil, Effing & Kwast (2017): Smart City Participation: Dream or Reality? A
Comparison of Participatory Strategies from Hamburg, Berlin & Enschede

6. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Hamburg is one of the most liveable cities in Germany
 “The ultimate smart city is an utopia and does not exist”
 Hamburg defined a comprehensive strategy and vision in 2015: “Digitale
Stadt”
 Vision: “Establish an innovation climate that enables citizens to make public
data openly accessible and support companies and institutions in networking
“
 Key aim: “achieving a higher quality of living”
 Citizen centric approach
 Tools: open data, stadtwerkstatt, network collaboration
Source: Spil, Effing & Kwast (2017): Smart City Participation: Dream or Reality? A
Comparison of Participatory Strategies from Hamburg, Berlin & Enschede

7. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Wish to build an infrastructure suitable to be used in all of our smart city
projects
 Wish to make collected data reusable by others in Enschede
 Collaboration with City of Enschede

8. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Open & Agile Smart Cities: November 2015, some Dutch Cities join
(Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Rotterdam, Utrecht)
 FIWARE: platform providing set of APIs that ease the development of smart
applications in multiple vertical sectors + data models
 Orion Context Broker, CKAN, Cygnus

9. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Urban Platform (according to EIP-SCC): “The implemented realisation of a
logical architecture / design that brings together … data flows within and
across city systems … in order to transform…outcomes at local level.”

10. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Urban Platform (Enschede): An online basis for a smart city ecosystem where
data (visualisations), services, projects, smart city participants, stories and
events are displayed/shared in an interlinked way
 Layer on top of FIWARE (or other data platforms)
 Visibility of the smart city
 Dutch co-operation (NEN)

11. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
City as a platform manifesto (10 principles)
Knit local communities closer together
Offer a new economic agenda for local governments by using digital platforms
Collaborative framework between residents, the public and private sector
To drive the desired outcome of sustainability, inclusivity and targeted
innovation that benefits cities and their residents
1) City platforms must enable services that improve the quality of life in cities; benefitting
residents, the environment, and helping to bridge the digital divide
2) City platforms must bring together both public and private stakeholders in digital ecosystems
.
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. https://www.tmforum.org/smart-city-forum/city-platform-manifesto/

12. Image source http://smartklub.org/blog/the-smartest-city-hamburg/
 Collaboration based on the urban platform Smart Enschede
 More projects
 Involving citizens: Smart Citizen Lab, measuring ground water levels
 Involving Companies: Improving and expanding the urban platform, adding
sensors and networks, developing services
 Invitation to collaborate!

13. Keep in touch!
Saxion University of Applied Sciences
School of Creative Technology
Research Group Smart Cities
Enschede, The Netherlands
m.j.a.veenstra@saxion.nl
+31653217668
r.effing@saxion.nl
+31623462625
@robineffing
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