MEASURE AND COLLABORATE TO IMPROVE YOUR CITY. With cityOmeters You can Measure the performance of your city Engage citizens and economic actors willing to support improvements Foster collaboration and exploit available expertise THE NEED Municipalities today are facing challenging needs: Increasing difficulty to interpret the real needs of the city, which in turn implies the risk of addressing irrelevant problems or overlooking important ones; Decreasing budget availability which makes municipalities able to provide only limited coverage of needs; Need to cope with complex laws and regulations for calls and tenders, which adds up delays in the procedures and discourage participation of economic actors. Thus, activities become too TIME CONSUMING and EXPENSIVE, and municipalities find it hard to find the RIGHT SKILLS and the hubs that could enable collaborations. THE SOLUTION A smartcity project aiming at Measuring correctly the city needs Evaluating the priority ranking of needs Enabling collaboration between citizens WHAT IS CITYOMETERS? Technology: a platform for validated city measurement, engagement and collaboration Methodology: a set of procedures, guidelines and services supporting the city The process Measure the City parameters from different sources, in real time Evaluate the priority of the needs based on impact, costs and feasibility determine which needs to address and initiate the corresponding improvement projects determine the relevant actors or hubs of local actors, activate the collaboration, and engage them in the projects monitor the project advancement and coordinate the collaborations assess the quality of the results to ensure maximization of benefits for everyone IMPACT AND BUSINESS CASES The main target of cityOmeters are mid-size European cities (from 80K to 250K inhabitant), with a total population of around 110 Mln citizens just in Europe. CityOmeters will enable savings for municipalities, cooperation among city stakeholders (in terms of time, effort and expertise), and increased perceived value for citizens and businesses with respect to quality of city services and coverage of needs.