Smart Citizens in Smart Cities

Manchester City Region: creating Next Generation Digital Cities

Dave Carter , Head, MDDA Manchester Digital Development Agency, Manchester City Council.

Eurocities Smart Cities Network

- Eurocities founded in 1986 and its Brussels office opened in 1992 - Telecities founded in 1993 and first EC funded European Digital Cities project (94-96 - FP4) - led to further projects:
- TEN-Telecom project InfoCities (96-98) - IntelCity Roadmap project (FP5 2002-3) - Intelligent Cities project (FP6 2004-6)

- Telecities became Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum (KSF) in 2005 - Manchester was a founding member of Telecities and the Living Labs network (2006) which became the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) - Eurocities KSF launched its Smart Cities working group in April 2011, co-chaired by Manchester and Barcelona (both leads for EU CIP Smart Cities projects, Manchester with Smart Innovation & People SMARTiP and Barcelona with Open Cities)

The Battle for Control of Smart Cities

 Smart cities need smart citizens User driven open innovation as the basis for engagement Co-creation and co-production as linked concepts for new service development Users as producers, not just of content but of services Empowering citizens needs more open and sustainable approaches Future Internet enabled services in smart cities requires new social capital Innovative business models, e.g. social economy approaches, linked to the generation of new social capital

Unlimited Bandwidth, Zero Latency

Living Labs, Open Innovation & Creativity
transformational digital infrastructures (open access) Next Generation Access (NGA) - beyond just speed Future Internet and virtualisation, cloud based networks Web centric systems meet networked objects and data stimulating creativity and innovation (open content) building, operating and developing networks creating new marketplaces new trade = new jobs = new skills generating social capital (open engagement) user generated services digital inclusion and co-operation enabling new business models (sustainability) social networks to social enterprises service efficiencies: doing better for less talent, technology & tolerance

NGA = Fibre All The Way.............

Digital infrastructure: 21st century real estate Living Lab Corridor Digitisation Project:
test-bed: 500 businesses, 1000 residents over next two years open access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network + wireless create new value chains: B2C, C2B, C2C, plus supply chains: B2B co-production of new services: smart energy, smart health, smart living Low Carbon Data Network: micro-sensors, wireless, fibre + open data new infrastructures for the Future Internet: hosting, exchanges, networks

Reuse of key public assets

Metrolink tram network, new bus lanes, traffic signal networks potential development of public service networks (PSN) public sector assets, e.g. new public realm, factored in and mapped

New mutual co-ownership approaches

multi-stakeholder co-ownership of assets and new services resilient and trusted networks run by and for communities Digital Inclusion Partnerships: housing, health, education, voluntary & community sector, social entrepreneurs, digital and creative businesses, arts and cultural industries = Big Society..

Manchester Living Lab

Principals:

co-creation: building on Open Data co-ownership: mutualising commitment co-production: generating new services
- recognising people as assets - valuing work differently - promoting reciprocity - building social networks
Practice:

user driven open innovation replicable and scalable models entrepreneurs as co-stakeholders sustaining user engagement

MCR NGA deployment

100 gigabit+++ DARK FIBRE LOOP

One Central Park

sharp project

Connectivity Power Space

Connectivity via Metrolink

CITY CENTRE

Sport City

Manchester College

Connectivity via Metrolink

Media City

Central Salford

Corridor
test-bed Internet Exchange Peering with JANET

Connectivity Power Space

Digital Inclusion+Living Lab+Open Access+Co-ownership

Geek Power! Entrepreneurs + Innovation

Talent Technology Tolerance + Developer Communities = Creativity Innovation Diversity and new ideas new business new skills new jobs

Future Internet Smart Cities

The Future will be OPEN.. Users generating services as well as content Green Digital Agenda: greener, smarter ICT and uses Public Private People Partnerships (PPPPs) Open Data + Open Access + Open Source Social Capital: capacity building at all levels Localism, community engagement + social networking:
City Nets + Rural Nets + Regional Nets + Global Nets

Future Internet: Terabit Ethernet and beyond Bringing together the grass roots, geeks, entrepreneurial talent, Future Internet research, novel investment and co-ownership

Thank You!
d.carter@manchesterdda.com www.manchesterdda.com
www.openlivinglabs.eu