Debate Summary: how to Do more with less by Collaborating Publicly and Privately?

In the current economic context, with significant budgetary constraints in the public sector, there is a latent need to be more efficient in the management of services in the city. Cities that promote Smart strategies are committed to imaginative solutions to collaborate with the private sector. Under different formulas, they aim to realize technological and social projects that contribute to the smart city project.

This round table explained how different urban contexts are collaborating to do “more with less.”

Speakers

Yatinder Mahajan – Smart City Director – Dubai Design District – United Arab Emirates

Christian Herzog – Head of Division Digital Business & Service Industries – Berlin Partner for Business and Technology -Berlin Germany

Félix Martin Gordo – Deputy Director for Sector Information Systems, Autonomous Information Technologies Body – City of Madrid – Spain


Jesse Berst – Chairman – Smart Cities Council – Redmond – USA

Yatinder Mahajan – Dubai

Our challenge is to create the happiest city in the world, generating an ecosystem that facilitates this change. To this end, we work on four pillars: efficiency, security, impact and fluidity so that everything works correctly.

Our solutions contribute to consolidating cosmopolitan Dubai and continue to facilitate the establishment of companies in our region. Back in 1999, we began to implement Smart initiatives due to the conditions facilitated by the government.

Dubai has a large cluster that integrates different private initiatives to develop the Dubai of the future. The Dubai Design District launches different Smart projects.

To this end, we have an integrated Masterplan so that different economic strategies can function correctly.

Gradually, we have been investing in new Smart technologies in the field of buildings to improve their efficiency and management: energy, security…

The new planned urban developments are taking into account Smart guidelines to advance the ideal of a smart city, and for this we take as a reference global initiatives such as the case of Barcelona. (An example could be the intelligent irrigation system that we have promoted from Logitek – Wonderware Spain together with the City Council)

Our roadmap follows the Smart City deployment guidelines developed by the European Commission. In total there are 130 initiatives, of which 24 will be launched in 2015.

Christian Herzog – Berlin.

USB is a state agency located in Berlin, and among other things is responsible for ICT and Smart Cities initiatives.

We are a public-private partnership formed by the region of Berlin and numerous private initiatives.

What impact have we had on the development of an SC? A typical day in Berlin as a Smart City can help us visualize the multiple technological options that a Berliner can use from the time they get up in the morning until the end of the day.

A recently launched example is the APP Kiwi.ki to facilitate access to housing through a door opening system that does not require the use of a key, its potential lies not only in its personal use but also for public maintenance or emergency services.

We are Berlin is in a process of permanent urban transformation, our objective as a public-private partnership has been to define a government Master Plan to make Smart City Berlin a reality.

How are we going to achieve it? In the Agency we have many strategies, energy, climate, transport, industry… but the great challenge is to combine everything in a global intelligent strategy.

The successes of public-private collaboration have resulted in city meetings between all interested parties where we have been able to identify 13 projects of interest.

For example, Berlin has an Open Data platform that has more than 280 Datasets for subsequent use by third parties, such as companies like TOMTOM

In the coming months, Berlin will host world-class events such as the meeting with actors from Asia Pacific or the Metropolitan Solutions Event.

Félix Martin Gordo – Madrid

Madrid Intelligent Project

The city of Madrid has a very high volume of needs due to the large number of services and infrastructures that it must manage.

Madrid changed the traditional vision of focusing the service through direct management to changing a regulated management under quality indicators. From there, 6 large contracts were organized with multi-lots that include the large areas of service management of the city.

At the same time that the contracting model was changed, Smart City project management models were designed: new organizational structures were proposed within the city council, new IT developments and services, and new contracting systems with a control approach and ensuring the quality of the service.

The MIND platform was launched to concentrate all the information that manages services and their quality, and thus make the service more effective.

Two functional focuses were proposed: Citizen and Service Companies, together with them new areas of collaboration were proposed within the City Council, in addition, important efforts were made to consolidate a technological base of knowledge to share and manage information.

IBM is the partner that offers the technology of the entire system and thus supports the Smart City Madrid project.

The information that is managed on the platform is available to citizens and concessionaires operating in the city of Madrid

Everything that happens and where it happens has been georeferenced on the Smart City model of Madrid.

Mint Protocol: The relationship with service concession companies must be orderly and open, this protocol must allow the interrelation of service management data with a third party.

This project is the basis of the digital strategy for the coming years of Madrid.


Jesse Berst – Smart Cities Council

Cities are the most important challenge on the planet, they are the protagonists of change for a better world. They are the best hope for the possibilities of personal and professional development they offer. “Cities are our heroes and our hope”

The Smart City Council is a large conglomerate of experts, companies, and international institutions.

We have several reference documents that are very useful for those who are entering new Smart City initiatives.

The Smart Cities guide that we have developed has 27 recommendations based on the failures detected in experiences. It is essential to share the structure of the data, and this idea is in line with what Madrid has commented on its Smart City experience

We have compiled 28 financing mechanisms for Smart initiatives, and some of them do not need money.

In public-private collaborations, the balanced fulfillment of the 3 Rs is pursued: Responsibility, Risk and Reward

For this, it is also necessary to involve the university, not only the gray matter, but also its neutral vision for the development of projects.

It is necessary to have new contractual procedures such as the ESCO example of Schneider Electric in Dallas.

Really the involvement of all interested parties can make Smart initiatives a reality.

Envision Charlotte: an initiative that has materialized in a large collaborative environment to reduce consumption in the city. Energy, water, waste… This experience will be the center of an upcoming congress in March 2015.