Introduction
iCity involve into the co-creation of services of public interest different types of stakeholders: private and third sector as new services developers, and citizens and companies as beneficiaries and final users of the new services.
Reason to Be Selected
The project responds to the growing demand from social stakeholders to provide services of public interest based upon the exploitation of available public information, digital assets and infrastructure. In doing so, the project encompasses the concept of Open Data with a novel approach of Open Infrastructures where the available municipal ICT networks already deployed in urban spaces will be made available and accessible to open innovation ecosystems (specially SMEs) with the objective of maximizing the number of deployed services of public interest.
The services to be finally deployed will be designed by interested user-driven open innovation ecosystems according to selected priority areas for cities and will be developed on the top of a shared technological platform that the iCity project will integrate in the 4 participant cities: Barcelona, Bologna, Genova and London. The iCity platform will enable services deployment using on due time appropriate municipal infrastructures in each city and providing a software development kit (SDK). Transferring will be assured by making the platform be ready to be integrated in any other interested city willing to shift into a Smart City and adopt the co-creation approach in services provision and also by making available services of public interest to the citizenship on an iCity Open Apps Store.
Highlights:
Advantages for Developers:·Easy implementation. You just need to know iCity's API REST and that it standardises the access to all infrastructures. Everything is documented.·Opportunity to reach pan European markets. The applications can be used for more than one city.·Use iCity project communications as a mechanism for dissemination.·Benefit from the iCity Platform Governance: statistics, access control, etc.·Participate in an innovative European project to open IT infrastructures.·Co-working with other cities and developers around the world who are participating in public interest projects.Advantages for Infrastructure owners:·Development of new services that are of public interest by using an ecosystem of developers.·Access to infrastructures, with a secure control.·New potential customers.·Be a part of a European cities network.Details
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Technological Solution
The iCity platform, which will be offered as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), will enable services deployment using on due time appropriate municipal infrastructures in each city and providing a software development kit (SDK).
Features and capabilities:
·An advanced service delivery platform built on open standards.
·A rich set of common application infrastructure and business services to accelerate service creation and delivery.
·Integration with Operations support systems/business support systems (OSS/BSS) to enable (at scale) service orchestration, activation, service monitoring, maintenance, and billing.
·Quick integration with a wide variety of devices through a device abstraction framework.
·Quick integration with city applications using an application abstraction framework.
·A Portal for the end consumer and city operating personal.
| Lat: | 41.3948 |
| Lng: | 2.14877 |
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| Region: | Europe |
| Scale: | City |
| Field: | Civilian |
| City: | Bologna |