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

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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%

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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"

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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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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)

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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).

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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

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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

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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