Ville Intelligente Grand Lyon's List: Stratégie Ville Intelligente

• City SDK is a pan-European project that will create a service development kit enabling the creation of applications across partner cities in the domains of Mobility, Tourism and Participation. The kick off meeting of the project took place in Brussels in February.

• Le Centre de pédagogie urbaine (CUP) est une organisation à but non-lucratif qui tente d’améliorer l’engagement citoyen au moyen de l’art et du design. Ses projets “démystifient les politiques urbaines et les problèmes d’organisation qui ont un impact sur nos quartiers, pour que davantage d’individus puissent participer à leur modélisation”.
• l’un des joyaux culturel européen a rouvert cette semaine son portail Open Data : Florence [it]
• l’utilisation de la toute jeune plate-forme de création de visualisation de données infogr.am.
• La Poste, elle aussi, aime ça.
• Le projet “Flux²” est tout simplement beau à regarder.
• Sensor.ly
• veut offrir au grand public un moyen simple de comparer la couverture des opérateurs mobile à travers le pays
• projet “Ville Vivante” qui (re)trace de manière enthousiasmante la circulation permanente des téléphones au sein de la ville de Genève
• une géographie temporelle et féérique, abîmée dans l’irréel et l’abstraction d’un monde pourtant bien concret au travers des milliards de bits de données qu’il a fallu rassembler pour la produire

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• Whether it’s a matter of integrating networks owned by multiple authorities or persuading numerous stakeholders to share their data, smart city projects are wholly reliant on collaboration.

   This is true of IBM’s and Cisco’s commercial strategies. Both companies will typically partner with engineering firms, telecommunications operators or facilities management companies – and in some cases each other – to deliver a complete service.

   “We always take an ecosystem approach,” explains Cisco’s Feller.

• Managing the complexity of supplier- side partnerships is as nothing compared with the political machinations of city management, however. Both Parmar and Feller identify winning political backing as one of the critical challenges facing smart city projects.

   Feller says this can be especially difficult in the developed, democratic nations. “Compared with the cities in China – where you have strong mayors who can respond to an opportunity as it arises – in the US and Europe we have these fragmented, collaborative systems of power that are frankly more time-consuming.

• There is nothing quite like it in the world’s other major cities. I.B.M. has created similar data centers elsewhere for single agencies like police departments. But never before has it built a citywide system integrating data from some 30 agencies, all under a single roof. It is the handiwork of an I.B.M. unit called Smarter Cities and, if all goes according to plan, it could lay the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar business.
• the market to supply cities with “smart” systems is expected to reach $57 billion by 2014,

• There is a lot of talk about a "digital divide," but there's a growing "data divide" as well. It's no longer about having basic computer literacy skills. Being able to understand what data is available, how it can be manipulated, and how it can be used to actually improve one's life is a skill that not everyone possesses.

• How to handle complex governance issues
  
  Little was known in detail about the complex interplay between local, regional, national and European actors and policies in building successful knowledge hotspots in cities.
• A successful knowledge hotspot targets clearly defined groups with a concept that gives them a joint identity around a common theme.
• Knowledge hotspots send out a strong signal that the city in question is playing a pro-active role in the knowledge economy as a whole.

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