Short presentation about the Smart City/Ghent Living Lab approach

1. How smart is Ghent?
@ghentlivinglab1

2. LOADING CITY
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3. Citizens
Actors with Ideas
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4. Challenges
Different actors
Different topics
Many stakeholders
Common goal?

5. Smart Ghent
• Existing networks
– Climate Alliance
– GentM
– GentBC
– iMinds
• Common focus?
• Ghent!

6. Smart Cities = Smart People

7. Ghent Living Lab
• Linking the ambition (Ghent Digital Agenda) with
citizen’s potential
• Linking
SME’s, hacktivists, researchers, students, citizens and
government

8. Strengths
• Experiencewithpartici
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• Applied to innovation
topics
• User centric
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9. So where’s your living lab?
The public space

10. Cases:
– www.gent.be
– Parking App
– Apps For Ghent

11. Impact on government
• What’s a smart city government
• “Government as a platform”
• Goals > Procedures

12. More....
http://ghentlivinglab.be
http://appsforghent.be
http://data.gent.be
http://www.gent.be
Contact: e-strategie@gent.be