Living Lab and Smart City – trends and challenges

PhD Marita Holst OrganiCity/Botnia LL/CDT

PhD Anna Ståhlbröst Botnia LL/Information

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BACKGROUND AND STORY OF BOTNIALIVING LAB….

EXAMPLES OF BOTNIA SMART CITY RELATED PROJECTS

SATIN

SMARTiRoad

EAR-IT IoT Lab

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Smart CampusCroCoPil

Sense Smart City

CASSANDRA

GuidUeStreet Smart Buy

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CO-CREATING SMART CITIES OF THE

FUTURE

EXPERIMENTATION AS A SERVICE3 CITIES, ONE PLATFORM FOR EXPERIMENTAL SMART APPLICATIONS

OPEN CALL FOR EXPERIMENTSSUPPORT FOR THE FIRST EXPERIMENTS ON THE ORGANICITY FACILITY

WHAT MAKES AN EXPERIMENT? THE ESSENTIALS FOR CO-CREATED EXPERIMENTATION

PROPOSED LAUNCH DATESTART THINKING OF IDEAS, AND BUILDING TEAMS!

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Reflecting on 15 years of Botnia Living Lab Experiences and

Research in/from Smart Cities Projects

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CONTINUOUS DIGITALIZATION

• Transforms our cities and regions• Changes – what we do– how we do tasks – and what is possible

to do– how we experience things– how we solve tasks– what competencies that are needed

SMART CITIES AND DIGITALIZATION

Challenges for sustainable smart citieso Traffico Pollutiono Energyo Population growtho Water supplyo Waste managemento Increased social

inequalityo Economic disadvantageo Liveabilityo …

Societal priorities needed to be handle in digitalisationo Continuous engagement

of government to foster digitalisation

o Rules and policies that supports digitalisation

o Competencies for the digital society

o Data driven innovation for growth and prosperity

o Security and privacy in the digital world

o Infrastructures that supports digitalisation

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OPEN SOCIETY Openness is good

• increase transparency• stimulates innovation, growth, business and new possibilities

o But who is sharingo For what purposeo When are they openo What is openo For whom is it open – open data for all or for some?

Which unintended consequences can openness have?o Privacyo Securityo Competitiono Trustworthiness of e.g. services building on open data

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ENGAGING CITIZENS

Citizens needs should drive innovation and growth in citieso It is increasingly hard and demanding to engage

citizenso Getting through the flood of informationo Value from participating or using technology must be

explicito Find motivated citizens; where, how to reach, how

motivateo Find representative citizens o Creating and using co-creative methods o Motivations are changing

DATA DRIVEN INNOVATION Data as the Holy Grail

o Internet of Thingso Big data, data analytics, data scienceo Growth & Efficiencyo Well-being

From users as Factors through users as Actors and back again!!

Privacy and security issues Trustworthiness of data

Who creates value from data and who captures it?

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LARGE SCALE PILOTING Standards, scalability, flexibility and

speedo Reduces citizen’s possibilities to

influence the design and development of technology

o Requires solutions that are matureo Finding pilot contextso Responsibilities during and after pilotso Citizens do not want to use and install

prototype technologies to the same extent

o Technological lock-ins

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DIGITALIZATION OF SOCIETY

Digitalization is often viewed as the solution to societal problemso Human needs in focus to foster technological

possibilitieso Focus on technological solutions rather than

humanso Increases the digital divide

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CROWD ENGAGEMENT AND SHARING ECONOMY Micro work and involvement

o New employment marketo Self employment - good or bad?o Who is creating value and who is capturing it?o Regulations are not compliant with the growtho Competitions to solve an issue, but what happens

with the resources and efforts put in by the loosing suggestions

o Freedom of choice of course – but what does that really mean and freedom for whom?

WHY ARE LIVING LABS IMPORTANT FOR SMART CITIES?

Support innovation processes with the whole value chain Support inclusion and participation of citizens – aiming for

high quality of life Cross-border innovation activities Provide new insights – avoid naïve solutions and approaches Strengthening democracy and citizen influence Co-creating need-based solutions Facilitate innovative solutions for every day challenges Supports multi stakeholder engagement Provides a neutral playground – sand box Facilitate sustainable growth Researcher engagement – theories and practices

To fully harvest the potential of citizen engagement to

support the the development of smart cities and

sustainable societal growthMore research is needed!!

Thank You !!