Developing a Blueprint for a
Smart City where Enterprise and
Social Collaboration Thrive
Digital Birmingham - Birmingham City Council
Raj Mack, Head of Digital Birmingham
M: 07823534981
raj.s.mack@birmingham.gov.uk
http://twitter.com/digibrum
Putting Birmingham First 2013
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An engine for the West Midlands economy (20%)
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160,000 daily commuters
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4.3 million people of working age population
within a one hour drive of the city centre
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32m visitors per annum
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Innovation & research centre: 65,000 students in three
universities
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Youngest city in Europe: 37% population aged less than
24
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UK’s largest cluster of life, bio, medical sciences
businesses
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+25% of UK’s digital games production companies
Why be Smart ? - Challenges of
urban growth
POPULATION
GROWTH
Resource
SCARCITY
Legacy systems
2008 > 50%
2050 > 70%
CLIMATE
CHANGE
60% carbon
reduction by
40%
Buildings use
of world’s
energy savings and up to 40% of
energy savings are not captured today
Acute and long term challenges
&
Current systems strained
2026
50%
More than
of web
connections will be mobile by
2013
What is a Smart City? - multiple definitions
A new mindset and approach to shape design
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Set up a Smart City Commission
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Chaired by the Cabinet Member for Green,
Safe and Smart City
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16 international / national / local “experts”
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Collaborate - learn from others and import
the best ideas
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Identify our guiding principles, a vision and
strategic direction to design a smart city
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Initiate Roadmap by Autumn 2013 with
strong stakeholder engagement
Birmingham: The Enterprise Capital built on an
inclusive, sustainable and smart economy
Our
vision
Birmingham, the agile city where enterprise
and social collaboration thrive helping its
people live, learn and work better using leading
technology
Our
mission
To create the sustainable environment that will enable
our businesses, communities and citizens to learn,
create and prosper in an open and collaborative way,
through the provision of city governance, platforms,
and spaces, which integrate and leverage intelligence
across our all our communities
Tackle inequality & deprivation promoting
social cohesion
Strategic
outcomes
Lay the foundations for a prosperous city
built on an inclusive economy
Involve local people & communities in the
future of their local area & their public
services
Identified 7 key smart city Principles
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Leadership and ownership
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Exploiting technologies & Future proofed infrastructure
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Service transformation
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Support mechanisms that enable innovation for all
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New information marketplaces
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Support to citizens and businesses to close the digital divide
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Profiling and Influencing
Creating Birmingham’s vision
- a journey not a destination
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Learning and collaborating - linked across Europe
and wider
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Understanding what’s important
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What are the city’s burning challenges
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One size does not fit all
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Co-creating useful solutions
City Protocol
Birmingham First - Starting from a strong base –
Investment
Infrastructure and connectivity in urban and built environment
World class digital
connectivity
programme
£14M telecare service
to support 27,000
Birmingham people
The City has a 25 year, £2.7 billion
highways PFI with Amey
New Street
Gateway
£600million investment:
busiest station outside of
London - completes in
2015
Library of
Birmingham
World class, knowledge
hub - 0pens 2013
£188 million investment
Birmingham First - Starting from a strong base – R&D /
Global living lab test-bed collaborative , scalable & experimental projects
Parker app trial
in Jewellery
Quarter
ICT & social Media to
make urban living
happier
On demand cars
Birmingham’s Civic
Dashboard
SMARTSPACES is the largest of the
projects to be launched by the European
Commission in the area of saving energy
in public buildings using ICT.
Birmingham First -Starting from a strong base – Innovation
Enterprise, skills & collaboration – people, place, business
“Droplet plans to disrupt mobile cash
with no charges payment app for
iPhone””
Smart Birmingham: A vision of what it looks and
feels like
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The best place to start and grow a business
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Well connected to opportunities, spaces, places and markets
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Open minded, collaborative and experimental
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Joined up in our city thinking
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An easy, friendly and attractive place to come together
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A pleasant, safe and fun city known for its great natural
environment
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Better information, more choice, more convenience, less waste
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A great place to grow up and grow old
A Collaboration of City–wide Partners
Local Enterprise Partnership &
City Region
Activities
Core Cities
Birmingham Science
Park Aston
Priorities
European Community
Smart City
Commission
Green Commission
Marketing Birmingham
Business Birmingham
Digital
District / 4G
Digital
Blueprint
Open Data strategy,
platform
Library of
Birmingham Group
INCA / BDUK /
SOCITIM
DISCOVER: carers’
eLearning
Open Data
engagement
Network Rail /
Interconnect Board
Leaders Priorities:
Smart City, Open
City
Transformational
Housing Associations
Aston, Birmingham
Universities, BCU
Universal
Credit
Clinical Commissioning Groups
events
Creative and
Digital Media
Digital Media Business
Cluster
P3: To involve local
people and
communities
P1: To tackle
inequality and
deprivation
Welfare
Reform
Health & Well Being Board
Digital
Champions
Carers’ Strategic
Partnership
Living Lab
P2: To lay the
foundations for a
prosperous city
Service Birmingham
Centro
Social Care
& Telehealth
Science City
Interconnect &
Gateway
Digital Skills
Agenda
Major Cities in Europe
Smart Mobility
projects
UTMC
Smart Energy
projects
Funding Bids
European Network of
Living Labs ENoLL
Procurement
CISCO
EUROCITIES
AMEY
Carillion
BRE/SHABA
Technology Strategy
Board (TSB)
The journey continues…
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Our aim is to create a smarter city, not just a
city where smart things happen
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Strong bottom-up approach
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Recognise that the role of the city is to act an
enabler / facilitator to accelerate
opportunities
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Real change will only be possible through
city system integration and making data
open and accessible
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A smart city is not about buying new
technologies – It’s about learning to do things
differently as innovation lies in the application
of knowledge
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