Dimensiones de la creatividad

The general situation of the economic and social development of the city

Barcelona⁹⁶ is the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia and the second largest city in the country, with a population of more than 6 million and about 5 million people in its metropolitan area. Barcelona is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres. It is the fourth economically powerful city by GDP in the European Union and 35th in the world with an output amounting to €177 billion (44% more than the EU average). The Barcelona metropolitan area comprises over 66% of the people of Catalonia, one of the richest regions in Europe, with a GDP per capita of €28,400 (16% above EU average). Barcelona occupies 13th place in the world on Innovation Cities Global Index.

Barcelona has a twinning agreement with Shanghai since 2001.

Does the city have a strategy, plan or action for the Smart City development? If so, please provide a brief overview of document, such as the innovative concept, targets and main actions.

The long-term vision of Barcelona is based on building a city of productive, human-scale neighbourhoods within a hyper-connected, high-speed and zero-emission metropolis.

The MESSI strategy summarizes the city’s ICT strategic plan: Mobility, E-administration, Smart-city, Systems of information, Innovation. In 2011, the Mayor included the Smart Cities topic in the city strategy for the new tenure as a key strategic point. The key areas of the Smart City efforts are directed towards Environment and Energy, Transport, Waste management, Urban-rural cohesion, and Quality of life. Also, the mobility master plan provides an important framework for the city’s transportation development.

Please describe the policies, actions and outcomes/impact of the ICT infrastructure sharing, information sharing and service platform sharing across smart city projects from the Smart City.

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One of Barcelona’s main goals is to work on the installation of a 500 km Optical Fiber municipal network, providing FTTH covering to the 90% of the city (500 km at 1 Gbps). The main investment being made by the City Council is in networks integration. The city is working on an exploitation and unified network management model so that it can be offered to other city services and be opened to others, exploiting the excess of capacity in exchange of obtaining new funds for its management and maintenance. These telecommunication infrastructures are offered to the rest of infrastructures and specific services of every business area since ICT infrastructures are transversal (through networks, management platforms, control and management systems).

Barcelona Wi-Fi is a free internet access network available to all citizens (443 Wi-Fi antennas)

The current models of provision and ICT services at the municipal level have gradually move towards a more sustainable, relying on more efficient technologies such as the cloud, using standards and sharing service. For example, Barcelona engaged Microsoft partner Bismart to create a storage solution that runs in a hybrid cloud. Based on Windows Azure, Windows Azure HDInsight Service, and SQL Server 2012, the solution collects and examines Big Data from city and public sources.

The typical smart city service or application of the city. Please describe the progress and the assessment of each service ( less than five services)

Service 1 Intelligent traffic data management, with the creation of a Situation Room to control the city from one single center (ready in 2013).

Service 2 Open Government project, based on the promotion of citizen participation, cooperation and transparency, especially making public data and infrastructures available.(2012) (Open Data, OVAC, e-administration)

Service 3 Development of energy efficiency in buildings based on the incorporation of solar panels, mixed uses, joint heating and water recycling under the framework of Energetic self-sufficiency plan (self-sufficient building blocks, smart grid, heating and cooling network)

Service 4 Smart Innovation includes the following projects: Innovation District 22@, Smart City Campus, Smart City Tour, Smart City Cluster, Urban Lab, and Competence center mSmart City. Urban Lab, 2008, is a tool created to allow the use of public space for companies to test solutions and services in a real urban environment.

Service 5 Development of an Urban Platform for city management to unify data from various sources (this project will be ready in 2014) which includes the projects: CityOS, Barcelona Sensors Platform, i-City.

Please describe the measures on organization, policy, funding and business model of the Smart City development.

The City Council created in 2011 a new department called Urban Habitat, under which several areas of the city were grouped: Urban Planning, ICT, Energy, Environment, Urban Services, Infrastructure, etc. A coordination team, led by the new Smart Cities Director, was set up and works dedicated to find synergies among the projects comprised in this Smart City strategy altogether and ensure their alignment with this long term vision of the city was also set up.

Barcelona City Council has signed strategic collaboration agreements with corporations such as Cisco Systems, GDF Suez, Telefonica, HP, Abertis or Schneider Electric among others.

Other partners are the EU Commission, World Bank and United Nations.

The city has a large trajectory of citizens’ involvement in the shaping of policies. Some examples could be the participative process of the 4-year Municipal Action Plan in which more than 70.000 contributions were received, or the signing of the Citizens Compromise for Sustainability that was approved with the implication of more than 800 civil entities.

The city is working on a project based on World Bank indicators called “bigov Better City Indicators” aimed to define the main indicators needed for building a city profile. This project is developed hand in hand with private sector, including big multinationals and local SMEs.

The city also has its own KPI monthly report to follow the performance in every area; those indicators are based on standards. Barcelona is collaborating jointly with the city of Buenos Aires in the innovative project of the “Smart City Index”.

Generally, the City Council itself is in charge of the projects and external partners are usually channeled by a public bidding process. Besides this, developer partners are linked to free software standards and I+ D agreement partners are subject to the established clauses regarding investments and tasks responsibilities of each partner.

It is important for Barcelona to share their experiences in developing smart city projects with other cities across the world, academia, and industry. They see dialogue as central in spreading learning and maximising the benefit and value of their work. The City Protocol is a discussion space to talk about cities across sectors http://cityprotocol.org/index.html

The city has signed agreements with a number of companies and other partners such as Cisco, Schneider Electric, GDF Suez, bdigital, Barcelona Design Innovation Cluster, IREC, i2cat, Dublin City Council, Buenos Aires Gobierno de la Ciudad, Ajuntament de Sant Cugat, City of Yokohama, Fundación Metropoli, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Ayuntamiento de Bilbao. Private companies usually contribute to the project funding by resources provision, sometimes capital contributions. Projects may be either integrally financed by the City Council or financed through PPP. The City Council funding may range from 100% in integrally self-financed projects to a percentage that can be very variable depending on the project when it comes to partnerships (usually > 50%).

There are also public biddings incorporating smart elements so that smart structures funding is supported by the chosen company. There is also the possibility of funding coming from the EU through innovation projects. It is normally a co-funding system which implies a mix between PPP and public biddings.