The document describes the Institute for Digital Progress (IDP), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that aims to transform the Phoenix region into a global hub for smart city and IoT technology through civic innovation. It outlines two pathways for innovation - Innovation as a Service (IaaS), which facilitates pilots of innovative technologies to address urban issues, and AZ Urban iLabs, which provides a platform for entrepreneurs to test ideas in real cities. The goal is to encourage bottom-up innovation and testing of new solutions to improve life for city residents.
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Innovation in Phoenix: City on the Rise - Dominic Papa
1. • 501(c)3 not for profit organization
• Transform the region into a global hub of Smart City/IoT
technology drivien by collaborative civic innovation
Executive Director & Co-Founder: Dominic Papa
dominic@idp.city
Azidp.com
2. Phoenix
• 5th Largest City
• Thriving Entrepreneurial Community (#yesphx movement)
• Large Technology Companies
• Leading Research Institutions
• Arizona State University – Ranked #1 in Innovation
• TGEN - Translational Genomics Research Institute
• University of Arizona Biomedical Campus
7. The Challenges
1. Insurmountable Urban Problems
2. How do we encourage bottom-up smart city
innovation and empower those entrepreneurs with
ideas that improve urban life?
13. 1. How do we make innovation the norm rather than
the exception?
2. How do we establish a routine practice that
enables consistent and effective preparation for the
biggest challenges of tomorrow?
Challenge 1
Insurmountable Urban Challenges
14. Innovation as a Service
Institute for Digital Progress
Innovative
Technology
Pilot
Urban Issue
Multi-Party Innovation
Customized
15. City Problems
Smart and
Connected AZ
Council
Project
Evaluation
Innovation Task
Force
Project
Acceptance
Smart and
Connected AZ
Council
iDP works with city
officials to clearly
define project
Further Review
Launch Pilot
Pilot Acceptance
Measure
Impact
Project Evaluation and
Implementation Flow
Continue Pilot?
NO
YES
Measure
Impact
Project
Implementation
Celebrate Success
and Share Credit
1. Assess & Focus 2. Design, Build, Test
3. Deploy & Evaluate
4. Replicate & Report
16. Pathway to Innovation 2
AZ Urban iLab
1. As a region, we want to encourage entrepreneurs
and startups to pilot novel ideas that could have a
positive impact on the lives of our residents.
2.How can entrepreneurs with ideas to improve
urban life test them in a city environment?
17. Arizona Cities Are Open For Business!
A transformative platform for entrepreneurs and innovators
to develop real pilots, in real places, with real citizens
18. Four Main Objectives
1. INNOVATION: Foster business innovation across the region
2. SHORTEN TIME TO MARKET: Enable companies to test
transformative products and services, to prove their value; which
can then be subsequently commercialized
3. PIPELINE: Maximize the marketplace for innovative products and
services that can be procured by cities (From local to Global)
4. BETTER SERVICES: Create new products and services that improve
urban life for the residents of Mesa
19. Benefits
• Citizens: Better products, better solutions, and better municipal services
• Economic Development: Test space in a real environment to facilitate
market access, maximize business competitiveness, increase capital, and
create job growth (particularly in STEM fields)
• Science & Technology: This is a powerful technology-transfer tool on both a
local and international scale. Create and provide unparalleled access to data
• City and Public Administration: A tool to facilitate the introduction of new
solutions (Innovation as a brand related to Arizona)
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How can we form a sustainable model of collaboration that can and will drive innovation in oour cities and in our communities
How is the Smart & Connected Council working with cities to help drive economic development and attract investment and solve insurmountable urban challenges?
Economic Development (Attract Investment)
Insurmountable Urban Challenges
Today governments at all levels face seemingly insurmountable challenges – rapid re-urbanization, dwindling budgets, increased citizen expectations, morphing societal needs. You might think that governments have little choice but to innovate.
Yet in much of the world public sector innovation continues to be organized haphazardly, with disparate short-term initiatives, and the odd consultancy report or conference rather than focused effort.
But there’s a shift occurring. From city halls to public agency front lines, governments are thinking more and more about how to create innovative solutions to their most pressing problems. Government officials are realizing the importance of thinking of innovation as a process. As an essential capability they wouldn’t want to govern without.
Today governments at all levels face seemingly insurmountable challenges – rapid re-urbanization, dwindling budgets, increased citizen expectations, morphing societal needs. You might think that governments have little choice but to innovate.
Yet in much of the world public sector innovation continues to be organized haphazardly, with disparate short-term initiatives, and the odd consultancy report or conference rather than focused effort.
But there’s a shift occurring. From city halls to public agency front lines, governments are thinking more and more about how to create innovative solutions to their most pressing problems. Government officials are realizing the importance of thinking of innovation as a process. As an essential capability they wouldn’t want to govern without.
No one company can provide breadth of technology solutions
One-size-fits-all solutions
Perhaps the most important question for local leaders to ask is how to make innovation the norm rather than the exception. How can governments establish a routine practice that enables them to consistently and effectively prepare for the biggest challenges of tomorrow?
The best elected officials recognize this, and know that, however brilliant they are, they need better ways of generating new ideas: better ways of tapping the brainpower not just of their staff but of the communities and businesses they exist to serve and support; and better ways of helping new ideas flower.
The Innovation as a Service Model allows iDP to act as the non profit R&D arm of cities, where we can collaboratively design and develop technology pilots that advance solutions to public challenges, have a measurable impact, and the potential to scale
The Innovation as a Service Model
Combines rigorous data analysis, best-in-class idea generation techniques, and strong performance management.
Co-create innovative pilot projects with the best and brightest minds that Arizona has to offer
Generates customized technology solutions to fit specific city issues and real citizens’ needs
Furthermore, as a nonprofit, at iDP we have developed a LEAN funding model that Leverages corporate and philanthropic funding and secured endowments and therefor it Does NOT rely on city or agency budgets to fund pilot programs
Cities in Arizona and in particular Mesa have established a reputation as emerging leaders in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
The answer is AZ Urban iLabs
It opens up the region as a site for experimentation, enabling entrepreneurs to pilot products and services.
AZ Urban iLab is a tool to facilitate the use of public spaces in the region to carry out tests and pilot programs on products and services with an urban impact. The idea is to use the cities as urban laboratories
Pilot programs must demonstrate an express need to use public and private spaces
These programs are premarket and the The Urban iLab is not a showroom for products or services currently available on the market or that are being marketed.
Aligned:
The pilot programs must meet the specific real needs of the citizens and their communities, and have a direct impact on the functioning of the city or on the services provided.
The Four main objectives that we are trying to accomplish are Innovation, we want to foster innovation not only in our cities but across the region and across the state. 2. We want to assist entrepreneurs and help them cut the time between design and deployment thereby shortening their time to market. 3 We see the urban ilabs as a way to help the governments in arizona maximize the pipeline for innovative solutions for them to ultimately adopt and last, and most important, the urban ilabs will help our governments ultimately deliver better services to our residents.
6 years
80 pilot proposals
+250 international calls
20 pilots tested
Examples of pilot projects: https://www.slideshare.net/cabrafiga/22barcelona-urban-lab