ICT Usage Lab : Projet FIREBALL


Smart Cities as Innovation Ecosystems for Future Internet Research - Empowered by Smart Citizens!

What can Smart Cities be about?

  • Usage of digital spaces and ICT to enhance the city and the city life
  • Digital dimensions of cities - the new intelligence of cities
  • Internet as medium for organizing collective intelligence of cities
  • The city as an innovation space for Future Internet research and development
  • Digital agendas for future city innovation strategies
  • Smart people and Smart technology - making cities become Smarter together!
  • Key drivers from Smart Cities of Future Internet Open Innovation.

  • Socio-economic ambitions of large cities, but also city marketing
  • Need for connectedness (cities - rural areas - regions)
  • Broadband deployment experiences, need for applications pull after the infrastructure
  • Technology push. Need to create experimentation environments to stimulate innovation
  • Driving network development
  • Impact of Internet infrastructure on business attractiveness of cities
  • Need to create open innovation environments to attract business and knowledge centres

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    F.Bonacina, updated 02-December-2011