Download here the FIREBALL White Paper.

This White Paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming “smarter cities” and the lessons we can draw for the future. Such strategies are based on an assessment of the future needs of cities and innovative usages of ICTs embodied in the broadband Internet and Internet-based applications now and foreseen for the future. These strategies are also based on a new understanding of innovation, grounded in the concept of open innovation ecosystems, global innovation chains, and on citizens’ empowerment for shaping innovation and urban development. Partly these strategies include the development of new types of innovation in urban areas. These new ways of innovation are characterized, firstly, by a high level of citizen involvement in co-creating Internet-based applications and services in all sectors of the economy and society; secondly, by the emergence of new forms of collaboration among local governments, research institutes, universities, citizens and businesses (e.g. Public-Private-People Partnerships). Such strategies and the resulting urban “innovation ecosystems” are becoming increasingly relevant given the urgent need to tackle growing social, economic and societal issues that cities are currently facing in a context of economic woes while simultaneously many improvement opportunities are offered to cities by new technologies and approaches to innovation.

Smart citizens in smart cities and communities co-creating future Internet-enabled services

This interactive conference is the premier European event of this Spring on Open Innovation for Future Internet in Smart Cities and Communities. It offers you as public organisation, SME, corporation, academic, and creative citizen a unique chance to get involved in shaping Europe’s user-driven open innovation ecosystems.

5 European projects and organisations bring you an exciting range of world-class keynotes, concrete results and demos, and many interactive sessions:

• Launch of smart care, energy, manufacturing and media networks that support cross-border Living Lab testing by innovative SMEs
• Results of user-driven open innovation in the Public Sector, creating Future Internet Services for Smart Cities
• Launch of the European Smart City and Future Internet roadmap
• Results of the 6th Wave of new members of the Network, and facilitate a range of new proposal development opportunities
• Launch of the European Cities Community Research and Innovation Initiative
• Facilitation of a range of new proposal development opportunities

This free 2-day event is organised in collaboration with the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, and will be held next to Brussels, Belgium. Book soon as places are limited!

Organising projects and networks: APOLLON – OPEN CITIES – FIREBALL – ENoLL – EUROCITIES

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Over the last two years FIREBALL has been working with the Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum and has seen a range of presentations from “smart cities”. This page makes available those resources we are able to.

BERLIN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY FORUM, Spring 2012 – SMART CITIES WORKING GROUP

Working Group Smart Cities – ICT PSP Smart Cities Portfolio March 2012

Working Group Smart Cities – Helsinki case study

Working Group Smart Cities – FIREBALL Summary March 2012

Working Group Smart Cities – CitySDK Overview

Working Group Smart Cities – Bologna case study