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Forum Virium - Public Session Presentation Lebanon, Beirut 21st October 2014 Mobile Ecosystems Co-Creation Workshop
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Forum Virium Helsinki: growing an open, smart city Beirut, 20th October 2014 Roope Ritvos, Development Director, Innovation Communities
New digital service innovations in co-operation
between companies, public sector and the citizens.
Forum Virium Helsinki is part of City of Helsinki Group.
New forms of Media
Focus areas
Innovation Communities
Smart City
Growth services for SMEs
Private member
companies
Public sector member organisations
Network members
KASV
UV
AL
ME
N N U S • F O R U M V
I RIU
M H
ELSINKI •
In figures
• Public-private innovation platform • Turnover 3,4 M€ • Growth approximately 15% / year • Project portfolio: 13 M€ (Fin), 51 M€ (total)
• Basic funding from the City of Helsinki, 25%
• External collaboration project funding 50%
• Direct commissions 20% • Membership fees 5%
KASVU
VA
LMEN N U S • F O R U M
VI R
IUM
HELSINKI •
2005 ”Industy-driven cluster project”
2014 Growing an Open Smart City
2009 Smart City, Users to the Center
Smart City""
Services and Technologies"
Living Lab""
Piloting areas for and with the Citizens"
+ =Better
Services & Products"
Solutions to Grand
Challenges"Better Living"
Value proposition
Helsinki: Mobile Games Startup Capital of World (2014 Develop) 1 of Startup Hotspots of the World (Wired et al.)
Growing an
Open Smart City
Mobile Apps in large use
Interactive Public Displays
Travel Card (0,5M users)
Open Data, Open APIs, Sensor Networks, Service SDKs
City as a platform
• Developer portal dev.hel.fi , open APIs, open data
• Developer meetups and workshops
• Innovation Challenges
• Open walk-in office times to the city’s developers
• European collaboration
CitySDK • Open source toolkit/API for
developing digital city services: opening and harmonizing city interfaces, processes & standards
• Mobility, Tourism, Participation
• Eight European cities, 15 companies and research partners involved
EU Digital Agenda Inspiring Initiatives (EC 2013)
”Truly smart cities such as Helsinki are using technology that is already out on the streets and on the web, enabling residents to input and update via smartphones, while apps help them to navigate the city more efficiently” (Guardian 2013)
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kki:
Esko
Läm
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Helsinki Region Infoshare
• Public data pools from the Helsinki Region as open regional data
• The opened data is ready to be used by anyone freely at no cost
European Prize for Innovation in Public Administration 2013 (European Commission)
Dat
akuv
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Info
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Kalasatama - Smart City Living Lab • A model district of smart urban
development
• Developed through experimenting, new technologies and the use of open data
• Collaboration between the city, companies, and the residents
• Objective: 1 hour more time to life in every day
“Just when you thought Scandinavia couldn’t get any more eco-friendly, Helsinki ups the ante … Heck, the design of Kalasatama is even set up to save residents a whole hour each day on conventional chores.” (Inhabitat.com 2014)
24 hour local services and crowd-‐sourced logisGcs in energy self-‐sufficient Smart Containers in Kalasatama, Helsinki, by start-‐up Piggy Baggy.
Smart City""The City government has a remarkable role in delivering new innovations to everyday lives of the people.""It is the key gatekeeper in innovations related to living, energy use, transport, education, public space, healthcare and services for the elderly and children."
Formal City Policy is important Helsinki City Strategy 2013-2016: ”Helsinki is an internationally recognized development and piloting environment for new products and services. New residential and commercial areas are exploited as development-, trial- and up-take environments for new products and services.”
Engaging the Developers
Growth Coaching
• Facilitation of pro and peer coaching for existing, growth-oriented SME/start-ups
• 200 start-ups; global success stories
• Open calls. Startups pay part of the costs. • Has been developed in co-operation with
businesses, low bureaucracy
• No domain focus requirement. Also specific projects on e.g. eHealth (joint EU activity).
Produced by Forum Virium Helsinki for City of Helsinki Economic Development Ku
va:
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aupu
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• Encourages SMEs, Civic Hackers and citizens to develop new ways to utilize open data / APIs
• Organized since 2009
• Over 600 entries
• Winners e.g.: BlindSquare, Stormwind Simulator, ParkkiNappi
• www.apps4finland.fi
• European collaboration with Apps4Europe K
uva: O
lli-e
kka
Orp
o
Apps4Finland Competition
• Encourages SMEs to exploit open APIs/technologies in their businesses
• Focus on SMEs in Creative Industries (E.g. 3D; digital media; games; audio)
• Fully funded concept and prototype creation, plus few selected more
• Open calls
Produced by Forum Virium Helsinki & partners for the European Commission
Kuv
a: O
lli-e
kka
Orp
o
CreatiFI
• Developer meetups • Hackathons • Hack-at-Homes • DevCamps • CityJams • Apps Competitions • Innovation Challenges • Open walk-in office times to the city’s developers • European collaboration
THE DEVELOPER ENGAGEMENT IS A CONTINOUS PROCESS THAT NEEDS TIME AND PEOPLE (AND MAYBE MONEY).
Citizens as drivers of innovation
Pic: BBC
Cities are organisms, not machines.
Pic: Aho & Soldan
Cities consist of people
don’t dare to call me
user, young man
WDC 2012 Interna9onal Design Founda9on
How to combine top-down with grassroots-up?
Living Labs 2.0 Communities are creative.
Restaurant day
One-‐day restaurants have so far popped up in 64 different countries including ArgenEna, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, USA and Uzbekistan.
Zurich Budapest
AhjoExplorer – All political/civic decision documents on mobile
-‐ Mobile App that helps the visually impaired in daily navigaEon.
“The idea to develop Blindsquare was born in Forum Virium’s ‘Mobile Augmented Reality Smart City Devcamp’. These kind of devcamps are important for us innovators.”, said Ilkka Pir]maa, CEO of Blindsquare.
Pics: Blindsquare
FVH success factor: the Network
Six largest cities of Finland
Joint Sustainable Strategy; 7 years, 80+ M€ (EU ITI)
Open And Agile Cities
Open, Smart City vision
Strategy support for City,
Companies
Engage Developers
PlaMorm • Data, API • Physical
Sites
PiloGng of • Tech • Methods
Joint sense-‐making
with peers
For more information roope.ritvos@forumvirium.fi +358 40 4662161 skype: rritvos www.forumvirium.fi
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