Developing a Blueprint for a Smart City where Enterprise and Social Collaboration Thrive

Digital Birmingham - Birmingham City Council

Raj Mack, Head of Digital BirminghamM: 07823534981

raj.s.mack@birmingham.gov.uk

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Putting Birmingham First 2013

• An engine for the West Midlands economy (20%)

• 160,000 daily commuters

• 4.3 million people of working age population within a one hour drive of the city centre

• 32m visitors per annum

• Innovation & research centre: 65,000 students in three universities

• Youngest city in Europe: 37% population aged less than 24

• UK’s largest cluster of life, bio, medical sciences businesses

• +25% of UK’s digital games production companies

POPULATION GROWTH

2008 > 50%2050 > 70%

Why be Smart ? - Challenges of urban growth

Resource

SCARCITY

CLIMATE CHANGE

60% carbon reduction by

2026

Acute and long term challenges &

Current systems strained

Legacy systems

Buildings use 40% of world’s energy savings and up to 40% of energy savings are not captured today

More than 50% of web connections will be mobile by 2013

What is a Smart City? - multiple definitions

A new mindset and approach to shape design • Set up a Smart City Commission

• Chaired by the Cabinet Member for Green, Safe and Smart City

• 16 international / national / local “experts”

• Collaborate - learn from others and import the best ideas

• Identify our guiding principles, a vision and strategic direction to design a smart city

• Initiate Roadmap by Autumn 2013 with strong stakeholder engagement

Birmingham: The Enterprise Capital built on an inclusive, sustainable and smart economy

Birmingham, the agile city where enterprise and social collaboration thrive helping its people live, learn and work better using leading technology

To create the sustainable environment that will enable our businesses, communities and citizens to learn, create and prosper in an open and collaborative way, through the provision of city governance, platforms, and spaces, which integrate and leverage intelligence across our all our communities

Tackle inequality & deprivation promoting social cohesion

Lay the foundations for a prosperous city built on an inclusive economy

Involve local people & communities in the future of their local area & their public

services

Identified 7 key smart city Principles• Leadership and ownership

• Exploiting technologies & Future proofed infrastructure

• Service transformation

• Support mechanisms that enable innovation for all

• New information marketplaces

• Support to citizens and businesses to close the digital divide

• Profiling and Influencing

Creating Birmingham’s vision

- a journey not a destination • Learning and collaborating - linked across Europe

and wider

• Understanding what’s important

• What are the city’s burning challenges

• One size does not fit all

• Co-creating useful solutions

City Protocol

Birmingham First - Starting from a strong base – Investment Infrastructure and connectivity in urban and built environment

New Street Gateway

£600million investment: busiest station outside of London - completes in 2015

Library of Birmingham

World class, knowledge hub - 0pens 2013£188 million investment

The City has a 25 year, £2.7 billion highways PFI with Amey

World class digital connectivity programme

£14M telecare service to support 27,000

Birmingham people

Birmingham First - Starting from a strong base – R&D / Global living lab test-bed - collaborative , scalable & experimental projects

ICT & social Media to make urban living

happier

SMARTSPACES is the largest of the projects to be launched by the European Commission in the area of saving energy

in public buildings using ICT.

On demand cars

Parker app trial in Jewellery

Quarter

Birmingham’s Civic Dashboard

Birmingham First -Starting from a strong base – InnovationEnterprise, skills & collaboration – people, place, business

“Droplet plans to disrupt mobile cash with no charges payment app for iPhone””

Smart Birmingham: A vision of what it looks and feels like

• The best place to start and grow a business

• Well connected to opportunities, spaces, places and markets

• Open minded, collaborative and experimental

• Joined up in our city thinking

• An easy, friendly and attractive place to come together

• A pleasant, safe and fun city known for its great natural

environment

• Better information, more choice, more convenience, less waste

• A great place to grow up and grow old

A Collaboration of City–wide Partners

Creative andDigital Media

Interconnect & Gateway

Open Data engagement

Open Data strategy, platform

Social Care& Telehealth

Universal Credit

DigitalDistrict / 4G

DISCOVER: carers’ eLearning

Funding Bids

Transformational

events

Smart City Commission

Digital Champions

Digital Blueprint

Welfare Reform

Smart Mobility projects

Smart Energy projects

Procurement

Living Lab

Digital Skills Agenda

Leaders Priorities: Smart City, Open

City

P3: To involve local people and

communities

P1: To tackle inequality and

deprivation

P2: To lay the foundations for a prosperous city

Activities

PrioritiesBirmingham Science

Park Aston

Carillion

AMEY

Housing Associations

Centro

Service Birmingham

BRE/SHABA

Health & Well Being Board

EUROCITIES

Technology Strategy Board (TSB)

Science City

Local Enterprise Partnership & City Region

Marketing BirminghamBusiness Birmingham

Clinical Commissioning Groups

Carers’ Strategic Partnership

CISCO

European Community

Digital Media Business Cluster

Core Cities

UTMC

Green Commission

Network Rail / Interconnect Board

Library of Birmingham Group

INCA / BDUK / SOCITIM

Major Cities in Europe

Aston, Birmingham Universities, BCU

European Network of Living Labs ENoLL

The journey continues…

• Our aim is to create a smarter city, not just a city where smart things happen

• Strong bottom-up approach

• Recognise that the role of the city is to act an enabler / facilitator to accelerate opportunities

• Real change will only be possible through city system integration and making data open and accessible

• A smart city is not about buying new technologies – It’s about learning to do things differently as innovation lies in the application of knowledge

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