Prof. Alvaro Oliveira, CEO of Alfamicro, presenting the case of Lisbon & Human Smart Cities during the ENoLL fringe session "Open Innovation and Living Labs shaping the cities and regions of the future" at the EC Innovation Convention 2014
Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation conference
Human Smart Cities - Prof. Alvaro Oliveira @ EUIC2014
1. Human Smart Cities
The case of Lisbon
Prof. Álvaro de Oliveira
Innovation Convention
Brussels, 11th March, 2014
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2. Modern cities became
places of
human
isolation and
social
exclusion.
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Human Smart Cities are places
for human
interaction and
social inclusion!
3. MyNeighbourhood Project
In the neighbourhood of MyNeighbourhood the past values of socio-spatial
connectedness are recreated through the Urban Living Lab methodology to
create and engage communities, design thinking to implement the WIN
methodology and Gamification to sustain the citizens motivation on the co-
creation of solutions for their wishes, interests and needs.
In the neighbourhood of MyNeighbourhood a social-digital environment
(Technical platform and social innovation methodologies and tools) is created
to support a closer attachment between people, their places of physical
dwelling and their material, social and environmental concerns. Proudness
and sense of belonging comes to life and scales up to the city.
4. Needs
Management
App WorkshopSocial
Game
Analytics
Wishes, Interests
and Needs
Solutions TransformationSOCIAL
TECHNOLOGY
PHASES Build Empower Scale
Social Network
Create
neighbourhood
communities that
work together to
solve their local
needs
Build
Provide innovation
tools and data for
neighbourhoods to
use in the creation
of their own
services
Empower
Facilitate growth of
new neighbourhood
services and scale to
achieve societal
transformation at
city level
Scale
MyNeighbourhood Phases
8. Co-design Activities
Context Analysis
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• Identify local community
leaders;
• Identify Current Activities and
Projects;
• Selection of key stakeholders to
be involved in the Project;
9. Co-design Activities
Design Phase - Meetings and Workshops
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• Presentation of
MyNeighbourhood.
• Alignment of interests;
• Engagement in co-design and
co-creation workshops with
the community leaders and
progressively extending to the
citizens.
18. Business case
• Scaling up in Lisbon
• 4 cities in Portugal
• 10 cities in Brazil
• Pilot projects in Colombia, Peru,Chile,Mozambique
• Creating a new company “Smarter Services” (S2)
• Establishment of technical partnerships
• Establishment of finance partnerships
• Creating attractive business models for cities
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19. Human Smart Cities Network
Human Smart Cities WS
Bologna, Italy
17 October 2013
Human Smart Cites
Conference
Lisbon, Portugal
13th March 2014
Forum PA – Human Smart Cities Conference
Roma, Italia - 30 Maio2013
www.humansmartcities.eu
26. EU Policy Initiatives
• At least 5% of the ERDF dedicated to integrated
actions for sustainable urban development
• Management delegated to urban authorities
• Tackle
economic, environmental, climate, demographic and
social challenges
• Need for integrated interventions at neighbourhood
and local level
• Taking into account the need to promote urban-rural
linkages
• Need for innovative approaches
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27. Policy Recommendations
• Ensure convergence of existing policy mechanisms;
• Accelerate implementation of ICT urban
infrastructures such as Communications, Future
Internet and Internet of Things;
• Establish a sizeable number of Human Smart City
projects that may create the critical mass to achieve
exponential growth;
• It is important to contribute for the creation of an
European-wide Urban Innovation Ecosystem to
generated wealth and create jobs.
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28. Human Smart Cities
Co-created by governments and citizens
Human Smart Cities use technologies as an enabler to
connect and engage government and citizens, aiming to
rebuild, recreate and motivate urban
communities, stimulating and supporting their collaboration
activities leading to a joint increase of social wellbeing .
Human Smart Cities hear and speak with citizens and provide
technical support and Policy to become the city government
more transparent, participatory, efficient and a mirror of the
citizens’ will.
Human Smart Cities empower citizens to co-design and co-
create solutions for their Wishes, Interests and Needs
(WIN), recreating a new sense of belonging and identity.
29. Conclusions
• Open, Transparent and Trustful City Government
• Citizens mass participation
• Social inclusion and social integration
• Behaviour transformation
• Sense of belonging and identity
• Innovation Ecosystem
The Human Smart City is a city where people – citizens and communities – are the main actors of urban “smartness”. A Human Smart City adopts services that are born from people’s real needs and have been co-designed through interactive, dialogic, and collaborative processesPeople are not obliged to adopt technologies that have been selected and purchased by their municipal governments; they rather are encouraged to compose their own services using available technologies in often simple, frugal solutions. .