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Link and Evangelize the FI-PPP from Europe to the world for the benefit of FI research and innovation and to the European

industry business

D2.2.2: Report on FI stakeholders’

engagement and use of FI-PPP technology

(v2.0) Revision: v 1.1

Work package WP2

Task Task 2.1, Task 2.2

Due date 30/09/2016

Submission date 30/09/2016

Deliverable lead InterInnov

Version 2.0

Authors J. Magen, G. Pastor

Reviewers L. Pucci, M. Calisti

D2.2.2: Report on FI stakeholders’ engagement and use of FI-PPP technology_v2.0

© FI-LINKS Consortium 2014-2016 Page 2 of 26

Abstract D2.2.2 (v2.0) reports all activities performed within WP2, as well as

the related results, in the 2nd year of the project. It includes some

recommendations for future actions after the completion of FI-

LINKS.

Keywords Report, Engagement, International Cooperation

Document Revision History

Version Date Description of change List of contributor(s)

v0.1 25/08/16 Table of contents and section

assignments

G. Pastor, J. Magen

V0.2 31/08/16 Section 2.1.1 drafted G. Pastor

V0.3 04/09/16 Contribution to several sections P.-Y. Danet

V0.4 08/09/16 Overall completion and editing

of the document

J. Magen

V0.5 09/09/16 First final editing J. Magen

V1.0 15/09/16 Insertion of contributions

related to USA and LatAm, and

final editing for review

J. Magen, E. Fernandez, J.

Gonzalez, F. Facca

V1.1 23/09/16 Comments from reviewers and

final editing

J. Magen

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

FI-LINKS Deliverable 2.2.2 is the second version of the report of the activities performed for engaging

Future Internet stakeholders into roadmapping activities and “evangelization” and adoption of FIWARE at

international level. It focuses on the activities performed during the 2nd year of the FI-LINKS project, and in

this sense complements Deliverable 2.2.1 that was reporting on the activities from the 1st year of the project.

The objectives of the engagement activities for Year 2 were refined at the end of Year 1 and summarized in

Deliverable D2.1.2 “Plan for engaging FI stakeholders, v2.0”. The process for engaging European regions

was further detailed in Deliverable D3.1.1 “Updated version of the ICT region taxonomy focusing on FI-

PPP”. The FI-LINKS partners followed the plans laid out in those two deliverables, and also embraced

arising opportunities whenever relevant to the promotion of FIWARE and moreover the engagement of the

relevant stakeholders at regional and international level.

Activities performed by the project during Year 2, all under the “FIWARE Mundus” brand, include:

In Latin America, FI-LINKS supported activities in Mexico, Brazil and Chile that are all in the process

of adopting FIWARE and have already set up FIWARE Lab nodes;

In the USA, FI-LINKS has established a formal partnership with the Global City Teams Challenge

programme (https://www.us-ignite.org/globalcityteams/), and has helped many start-ups involved in the

“FIWARE Accelerate” Programme to start discussions with US organisations for potential cooperation

and business, opening up opportunities for those start-ups and SMEs and also for European cities and

other key FIWARE stakeholders from industry;

In Canada, FI-LINKS has established a first cooperation with the Edmonton Research Park, leading to

the set-up of the first FIWARE Lab node in the country, after University of Toronto was the first to

develop a prototype based on FIWARE;

In Africa, FI-LINKS has been very active in particular with Senegal and Tunisia, and to a lesser extent

with other countries such as Egypt and Morocco. A FIWARE Lab node is being set up in Senegal and

another one shall follow shortly in Tunisia;

In China, after a visit from FI-LINKS and a visit from a Chinese delegation to Europe, the City of

Hengqin has also initiated the set-up of a FIWARE Lab node, while Hong Kong Telecom is considering

launching a commercial instance. Other Asian countries such as India and Vietnam are also showing

interest.

The completion of FI-LINKS coincides with the end of FI-PPP Phase 3 and the completion of most FI-PPP

projects. A few projects will carry on the activities in the next couple of years, progressively handing over to

the FIWARE Foundation. The main recommendations from FI-LINKS for future activities related to

FIWARE Mundus are:

To significantly broaden and strengthen the engagement of relevant players in order to increase the

number of FIWARE ecosystems around the world, e.g. via the set-up of international pilot projects via a

dedicated “FIWARE Global Piloting Programme”;

To empower existing FIWARE users, with particular focus on start-ups and app developers, to leverage

on them for additional evangelization and engagement of new stakeholders;

To encourage the promotion of FIWARE for educational and entrepreneurship purposes e.g. via the set-

up of a global “FIWARE Master Course”.

This means that although opportunities will still be looked upon in a bottom-up mode, an overall strategy

for worldwide promotional activities shall be defined and implemented. This should be done via a

“FIWARE Mundus” committee within the newly founded FIWARE Foundation. International members

shall be encouraged to join the FIWARE Foundation, in order to ensure that FIWARE becomes truly global -

although born in Europe.

https://www.us-ignite.org/globalcityteams/



TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................. 4

ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 5

1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 6

2 REPORT ON STAKEHOLDERS’ ENGAGEMENT AND FIWARE OPPORTUNITIES AT

INTERNATIONAL LEVEL ........................................................................................................... 7

2.1 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities around the world ................................................. 7

2.1.1 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Latin America ................................................. 7

2.1.2 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in North America (USA, Canada) ....................... 9

2.1.3 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Africa ............................................................ 11

2.1.4 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Asia ............................................................... 13

2.1.5 FIWARE Mundus Survey ................................................................................................................ 15

2.2 Opportunities for FIWARE accelerators and start-ups ..................................................................... 18

2.3 The role of the FI-LINKS Future Internet Advisory Board in identifying FIWARE opportunities at

international level ............................................................................................................................................. 19

3 LESSONS LEARNT AND CONCLUSIONS – RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOLLOW-UP

ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................... 20

3.1 Main conclusions from FI-LINKS Year 2 international engagement activities ............................... 20

3.2 Main Recommendations for follow-up activities ............................................................................. 21

ANNEX I: FIWARE MUNDUS FULL SURVEY RESULTS ................................................................... 23



ABBREVIATIONS

AB (FI-LINKS Future Internet) Advisory Board

DoW Description of Work

EC European Commission

EU European Union

FI Future Internet

FI-Core Future Internet Core, the FIWARE project in charge of developing the FIWARE

platform

FI-PPP Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (of the European Union)

FP7 Framework Programme 7 of the European Union

LatAm Latin America

SME Small and Medium Enterprise

WP Work Package



1 INTRODUCTION

The original objectives of the “Future Internet engagement” activities of the FI-LINKS project were twofold:

Identify and start engaging the relevant stakeholders and players at European regional level and in

countries beyond Europe with the aim to evaluate the establishment of the appropriate interaction

with those regions and countries in terms of sustainable adoption of the FIWARE technology;

Support the Future Internet roadmapping activities performed by the FI-LINKS Work Package 1

(WP1) in close coordination with selected external Advisory Board members coming from different

related areas of expertise.

During Year 1 of the project, the FI-LINKS consortium successfully engaged in a number of actions both at

international and at European regional level, making it possible to progress significantly towards the

objectives that were described in the Description of Work (DoW) and refined further at the beginning of the

project in Deliverable 2.1.1 “Plan for engaging FI stakeholders, v1.0”.

Year 2 of the project allowed FI-LINKS, fully working under the “FIWARE Mundus” brand, to develop

further those activities and in particular to achieve actual cooperation and adoption of FIWARE in several

places around the world. This document provides detailed information on the activities that have been

performed in Year 2 for engaging the most relevant stakeholders in order to achieve and sometimes exceed

the objectives that were set at the beginning of the project and revised at the end of Year 1.

Section 2 describes the activities that have been performed at international level, continent per continent and

country per country when relevant.

Section 3 reports on the main lessons learnt and provide recommendations for follow-up activities.

Note: the description of the engagement of European regions can be found in Deliverable D3.1.2 “Updated

version of the ICT region taxonomy focusing on FI-PPP”. Although it was included in the Year 1 report, it is

not summarized here, in order to avoid replication.



2 REPORT ON STAKEHOLDERS’ ENGAGEMENT AND FIWARE OPPORTUNITIES AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

2.1 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities around the world

During Year 1 of the project, FI-LINKS had investigated the opportunities of interaction with many

countries; both highly developed countries as well as emerging countries. The choice of the countries to be

investigated was done in conjunction with the EC and the interest shown by the key industry players

involved in FIWARE.

During Year 2, FI-LINKS, under the FIWARE Mundus brand, continued to deepen the contacts and

engagement in the countries already engaged, and explored further opportunities. The details of the activities

performed are described in the following sub-sections.

2.1.1 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Latin America

A summary of the situation and activities performed in Latin America at the time of completion of FI-LINKS

is shown in the following table:

LATIN AMERICA: the initial efforts towards international cooperation emerged in Latin America, as the

activities and outcomes in countries with very different socioeconomic characteristics from this region are

especially relevant to FIWARE. TID leveraged on Telefónica’s commercial footprint and institutional

presence to promote FIWARE in several countries, facilitating strategic actions that are resulting in

FIWARE being adopted with different levels of endorsement:

Mexico Mexico is one of the first countries outside Europe where FIWARE acquired

relevance. Through the incorporation of two large institutions, i.e. the University

Tecnologico de Monterey and the public research centre Infotec, a FIWARE node

was established within the frame of FI-Core project. The EC has acknowledged the

potential of the Mexican implication in such community (e.g. in Mexico FIWARE

was promoted at the largest Campus Party ever held) and included a specific call for

FIWARE-related innovation in the EU-Mexico section of the H2020 ICT Work

Programme, out of which two projects were selected (FIWARE MEXICO and

SmartSDK)1. In August 2015, the National Council for Science and Technology

(Conacyt) announced the creation of the App incubation laboratory, where the first

FIWARE training in Latin America was held by FI-Core project members2.

FIWARE was also present at the largest national council of municipalities, therefore

paving the ground for its establishment as a Smart Cities technology of reference. As

results of these engagement activities, two Mexican cities became part of OASC

(Leon and Cuatula) and additional ones showed interest in FIWARE and OASC. The

City of Guanajuato, one of Mexico’s main cultural touristic attractions has undertaken

a project to become a Smart Tourist destination with FIWARE as one of its

technological pillars.

1 In September 2016 those two new Mexico-related projects FIWARE Mexico and SmartSDK, under the umbrella of FIWARE

Mundus, organised a FIWARE Mexico workshop with more than 100 live and virtual attendees. The event was the chance to present

the future FIWARE activities planned in Mexico, including: the establishment of an Acceleration programme, similar to the A16

programme in Europe, that will be launched next year and help to bootstrap the FIWARE start-up ecosystem in Mexico; and the

availability of the first commercial FIWARE offering in Mexico. Cf. https://www.fiware.org/event/fiware-mexico-workshop/ 2 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/press-coverage/mexico-ya-tiene-su-laboratorio-para-incubar-apps-3/#more-39002

https://www.fiware.org/event/fiware-mexico-workshop/

https://www.fiware.org/press-coverage/mexico-ya-tiene-su-laboratorio-para-incubar-apps-3/#more-39002



Chile With Chile being the most developed economy in the region, innovation projects are

becoming frequent. TID visited Chile in October 2014, in particular for kicking off

the activities in the new R&D Centre in Chile promoted by the Chilean government,

which will focus on Smart Cities, Smart Mining industry (one of the fundamental

economic pillars in Chile) and Smart Agriculture. A team from the FI-Core project

together with UPM carried out several training actions in cooperation with UDD-

Universidad del Desarrollo de Chile. In 2015, actions towards the adoption of

FIWARE have successfully impacted the Smart Agriculture community. Initiatives

such as the “Moth Challenge”3, addressed the developers’ ecosystem, providing them

with an opportunity to reach the complex agricultural players.

The hardware ecosystem has also been reached, and the company WildnWise, a

Chilean start-up specialized in M2M and IoT solutions has become the first non-

European hardware manufacturer in achieving “FIWARE IoT Ready” label4 with its

Wisebox Modbus Gateway product.

Brazil Brazil is the third pillar of FIWARE in LatAm, where it is highly present in

significant initiatives such as “Brazil-EU Cooperation on Human Smart Cities and

FIWARE Workshop”, organized by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) on behalf

of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and with the strong support of FIWARE

Mundus5; Campus Party Brazil6; and also target for specific research calls in H2020

work programme, with calls focused on FIWARE. As a result of their participation in

FI-Core, Universities of Sao Paulo and Uberlandia have set up a FIWARE Lab node.

Following the workshop held in February 2016 in Natal, new actors are becoming

active on FIWARE, including Instituto Metropol Digital7, that is currently deploying

a FIWARE Lab Node in Natal; the Federal University of Recife, that organised

different hackathons (e.g. Hackacity8 event in Recife) and training based on

FIWARE; and CESAR that is developing different IoT services based on FIWARE.

Additional contacts have been made in Recife during the Beyon2020 event that was

organised with the support of FIWARE Mundus. As results, the Softville Foundation9

is exploring in collaboration with FIWARE Mundus the adoption of FIWARE for

their start-up programme. Notably, a Facebook group was created by Brazilian

FIWARE developers with support from FIWARE Mundus10.

Clearly, FIWARE is seen as key catalyst for Smart City related activities in Brazil: all

events related to FIWARE and held in Brazil in 2016 where focusing on Smart Cities.

Beyond that the expert involved in the consultation for the EU Brazil cooperation

indicated FIWARE as key technology for cooperation (EUB2017 objective on IoT

explicitly mention FIWARE).

3 Cf. http://www.tidchile.cl/desafiopolillas 4 https://www.fiware.org/iot-ready-commercial-devices/ 5 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-mundus-lands-in-brazil/ 6 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/2015/02/11/the-5-greatest-things-of-campus-party-brasil-2015/ 7 http://portal.imd.ufrn.br 8 http://olinda-recife.hackacity.eu/ 9 http://www.softville.org.br/ 10 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1118913754847186/

http://www.tidchile.cl/desafiopolillas

https://www.fiware.org/iot-ready-commercial-devices/

https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-mundus-lands-in-brazil/

https://www.fiware.org/2015/02/11/the-5-greatest-things-of-campus-party-brasil-2015/



Other countries There are several ongoing discussions on the possibility to establish FIWARE as a de-

facto standard in the field of Smart Cities in several countries, notably in Argentina,

Uruguay and Colombia.

For example, a presentation was made in Argentina to representatives of the ICT

sector at Buenos Aires chamber of commerce, including representatives from ALCUE

NET project and the Enterprise European Network; while in Uruguay, FIWARE was

presented at the national computer science event by TID Chile’s CTO.

In addition, a few meetings and teleconferences have been held with the Inter-American Development Bank,

with the objective of investigating whether FIWARE-based projects could be supported by the Bank11.

Several of their programmes are currently being considered for supporting FIWARE-related activities in

Latin America.

2.1.2 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in North America (USA, Canada)

A summary of the situation and activities performed in North America at the time of completion of FI-

LINKS is shown in the following table:

NORTH AMERICA: throughout the second year of FI-LINKS, the effort of FIWARE Mundus in North

America have led to a direct repercussion on the FIWARE community. The activities in the USA are still

progressing well, while the actions in Canada start to move towards more concrete steps.

11 http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html.

http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html



United States Through FIWARE Mundus / FI-LINKS, a partnership was signed in November 2015

with NIST and US Ignite to promote FIWARE as reference platform in the Global

City Teams Challenge (GCTC) programme12. FIWARE delegations coordinated by

FIWARE Mundus -composed of representatives from the broad FIWARE

community, including representatives from accelerators, start-ups and SMEs, and

FIWARE Node service providers- participated in the GCTC Expo in June 201513, as

well as previously in the GCTC2016 Kick-Off Workshop in November 2015 and the

GCTC Tech Jam in March 2016. In this context, FIWARE is being promoted as one

of the key platforms to be used by GCTC ‘action clusters’, i.e. worldwide teams

working together to achieve common pilot projects to develop and deploy solutions

for smart cities. FI-LINKS encouraged and is currently supporting European start-ups,

cities and service providers to join forces with other US cities and organisations

around common GCTC action clusters. Business partnerships are also being

considered and are under discussion between European start-ups and US

organisations.

The engagement of US stakeholders accomplished by FI-LINKS also covered actions

to encourage the deployment of new FIWARE Lab nodes and instances. The Portland

State University together with Urban Systems, a local solution provider willing to

partner with FIWARE, are finalising the set-up of the first FIWARE Lab node in the

USA, as announced recently14. Additionally, owing to FI-LINKS’ efforts, a FIWARE

instance will be set up at NIST premises by means of a formal cooperation with the

FI-Core project. The ultimate objective is to strengthen the presence and promotion of

FIWARE in the USA through NIST’s validation of the platform and its features. This

action is planned to happen between October and December 2016. Also thanks to FI-

LINKS, FIWARE (via FI-Core) is participating actively in the NIST-led “IoT-

Enabled Smart City Framework” Working Group.

Contacts with some other cities, e.g. Kansas City, Salt Lake City and San Jose, have

also happened. The set-up of FIWARE Lab nodes is currently under discussion with

those cities.

12 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-partnership-with-the-nist-global-city-teams-challenge-2016-program-now-official/ 13 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/2016/07/01/fiware-at-the-gctc-expo-2016/; videos are available at https://vimeo.com/album/4025936/. 14 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/news/new-portland-state-smart-city-lab-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us/

https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-partnership-with-the-nist-global-city-teams-challenge-2016-program-now-official/

https://www.fiware.org/2016/07/01/fiware-at-the-gctc-expo-2016/

https://vimeo.com/album/4025936/

https://www.fiware.org/news/new-portland-state-smart-city-lab-first-of-its-kind-in-the-us/



Canada FI-LINKS participated in a couple of events in Toronto15 to promote FIWARE in

Canada. As a result, the University of Toronto was the first North American

organisation to build a prototype using the platform.

Further to the actions in Toronto, several discussions have been pursued with other

stakeholders, including the Edmonton Research Park, the City of Edmonton, the

Edmonton Public Library, the Province of Alberta, and Clinysis –an SME from

Edmonton. Given the potential interest to go further, a couple of visits were organised

in Europe in Paris and Seville in June 2016, where several actors from the FIWARE

community were also invited to present their experiences with the initiative. The

impact has been so successful that the set-up of a FIWARE Lab node in the

Edmonton Research Park has been formally acted at the ERA-CAN+ final event held

in Rome on 15 September 2016.

Another Canadian SME from Prince Edward Island called CENSON is also

considering the possibility to set up a FIWARE Lab node, with the main objective to

strengthen the educational and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the smallest Province of

Canada.

2.1.3 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Africa

A summary of the situation and activities performed in Africa at the time of completion of FI-LINKS is

shown in the following table:

AFRICA: Orange, which operates in several African countries, has already identified some developers’

ecosystems that should be ready for FIWARE, in Senegal, Tunisia and Egypt. InterInnov has identified

potential interest via the US GCTC programme with Nigeria, and both have initiated an interaction with

Seedstars World for future cooperation. Preliminary contacts have been initiated with some other countries,

in particular Morocco and Egypt.

Senegal Sonatel is willing to host a FIWARE Lab; several universities are willing to educate

students to the FIWARE technologies; and the CTIC (Incubator) is willing to setup an

accelerator aiming at supporting development in national priority domains such as

agriculture, water, or environment, using the European Development Funds. Smart

city initiatives also exist with new cities in the suburb of Dakar (Diamnano).

Tunisia Orange Tunisia is willing to host a FIWARE Lab; and the Orange developer Center

which encompasses more than 8000 developers is interested in investigating and

pushing the FIWARE technology in order to enlarge the field of applications. There is

also an interest in setting up an accelerator aiming at supporting development in the

priority domains of tourism, water, and environment, using the European

Neighbourhood Funds together with the Digital Tunisia 2018 plan.

Nigeria Preliminary contacts have been established on the one hand with Seedstars World,

which is a business development organisation helping incubation and funding of

innovative projects in Nigeria and elsewhere; and on the other hand with the

Covenant University, which participates in GCTC, and are interested in setting up a

FIWARE Lab node for a smart campus.

15 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-at-the-smart-city-360-summit-1415-october-in-toronto-canada/.

https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-at-the-smart-city-360-summit-1415-october-in-toronto-canada/



Egypt In Egypt, Orange has a lab with more than 100 developers which are developing

applications for the Orange African countries. In particular they are developing

applications on water management and FIWARE has been considered as a good way

to develop quickly innovative applications.

They are planning to install a FIWARE node for internal development and then set up

a FIWARE instance to be commercialised in African countries.

Other countries Preliminary contacts have also been made in Morocco, showing interest in the

domains of smart cities and water applications.

Potential support from the European Commission

Further to the progress in the potential adoption of FIWARE in Latin America and in Africa, and to the

meetings with the World Bank in Washington D.C. in March 2015, discussions occurred with the FI-LINKS

Project Officer and other people within the Net Innovation Unit about potential support that could be

available from the European Commission for some of the FIWARE related activities at international level,

and more particularly in Africa.

It was therefore decided to arrange a meeting with some representatives from DG DEVCO in order to

investigate the possibility to use some available funds for the deployment of FIWARE in emerging

economies. This meeting was held on September 24, 2015, at DG DEVCO premises in Brussels, with the

presence of two of the FI-LINKS partners (Orange and InterInnov) and of the FI-LINKS Project Officer.

The main objective of the meeting was to check the potential usage of the Development Funds to finance

FIWARE accelerators in Africa. The main conclusion was that ICT applications developed with FIWARE to

support priority domains defined by each country could in principle be funded by European Development

Funds. However, such funds could not be used to support the set-up of a generic platform or accelerator. Still

accelerators focusing on a given sector/domain could be supported; some of the current FIWARE

accelerators are also sector-oriented in nature.

Following that meeting with DG DEVCO, the use of such development funds to finance the development of

FIWARE applications on priority societal sectors for Senegal (agriculture, water and waste) and for Tunisia

(agriculture, energy, environment) was considered. In Senegal, the local accelerator could use those funds to

set up calls for projects (5-10 K€/ project).

At the time of drafting this document, no real progress has happened on this front, because the priority in

Senegal has been agreed upon on setting up a FIWARE Lab node that cannot be supported by EDF (and is

actually supported by Orange Labs in Senegal). In Tunisia, a similar priority was agreed upon, and besides

they are waiting for the Senegal node to be set up first. See more details on progress in Senegal and Tunisia

below.

Senegal

Several meetings took place in Senegal together with the Ministry of Research, with the European bureau in

Senegal, with Sonatel and with the city of Dakar. There were also meetings with the WAZIUP project which

is an EU project aiming at implementing pilots in several African countries using IoT technologies supported

by FIWARE.

There is a very dynamic open innovation ecosystem pushed by the Ministry of Research, by Sonatel and by

the CTIC incubator and also with Universities. The involvement of all those players increases the chance of a

successful usage of FIWARE in Senegal.

Several opportunities have been identified:

- Developing open innovation with local web developer communities using the FIWARE technology

to develop innovative applications in the priority domain shared with the DG DEVCO. Development

funds should be used to fund an accelerator able to facilitate development of mobile and web

applications in Agriculture, Waste management and Water management. This ecosystem had been



set up using the Emerginov platform which offers communication enablers (SMS, clic to call, MMS)

with open APIs. Web developers are thus used to an environment somewhat similar to FIWARE but

from a previous generation.

- Providing a platform for the WAZIUP project16 which plans to set up pilots in the fields of

agriculture, logistics, health and education. They are developing a low cost LoRa-based IoT network

and should use the FIWARE platform to develop and host applications.

- D4D and OPAL projects which are funded by the World Bank, have the objective to provide

statistics based on Open Data collected from different sources.

- Smart city services that the Senegal government is willing to develop in Diamniadio (new city closed

to Dakar) but also in Dakar city which is planning to offer open data.

All these opportunities are providing a good terrain for the sustainable success of FIWARE.

Sonatel, the largest telecom operator in Senegal, is ready to set up a FIWARE Lab first and then a

commercial instance if business is progressing.

In order to set up this instance, Orange is currently establishing a team together with the Pôle

Images&Réseaux (which operates the Orange FIWARE Lab in France) able to support the installation of the

node.

Tunisia

In Tunisia, Orange Tunisia has set up an “Orange Developer Center”, which is a large community of

hundreds of developers developing mobile applications. FIWARE enablers are seen as a real improvement of

their actual development environment and they are very interested to use it.

As with Senegal, Tunisia should use European funds (Neighbourhood funds) in order to develop project in

the priority domains which are Agriculture, Energy and environment.

In addition, the Tunisian government has launched the eTransform plan (Tunisie Digital 2018) with 6 B€ to

fund projects using ICT to develop and facilitate the daily life of Tunisian.

Orange decided to wait until the Senegal node is running before setting up a node in Tunisia. But with the

Senegal case and the team established to support the installation, it shall be possible to make it happen

quickly in Tunisia.

We can also mention that since 2016, Tunisia organisations may participate in H2020 in a similar way as

European partners, i.e. they could apply in proposals using FIWARE.

2.1.4 FIWARE adoption and cooperation opportunities in Asia

A summary of the situation and activities performed in Asia at the time of completion of FI-LINKS is shown

in the following table:

ASIA: There were several events where the FI-LINKS project was invited to present FIWARE in Asian

countries. Further to one of those meetings, specific activities were performed with China, and FI-LINKS

received some requests to support activities in India.

16 www.waziup.eu

http://www.waziup.eu/



China The FI-LINKS Project has been invited by the Support action CHOICE (EU-China

relationship development) to a workshop together with the Hengqin city and Hong

Kong Telecom. There was great interest from the city to use FIWARE and from HK

Telecom to set up a FIWARE commercial instance. Other contacts have also been

made with a local Chinese association, targeting Macau for example.

Further to the event with CHOICE, FI-LINKS invited a Chinese delegation from

Hengqin to visit Europe and meet with FIWARE stakeholders, including cities and

start-ups. This was organised in June 2016, with the immediate result that a FIWARE

Lab node is being set up in Hengqin (with support from Orange Labs China), and

several European start-ups have been invited to propose their FIWARE-based

solutions to the City of Hengqin (after the applications will have been translated to

Chinese).

Worth noting, Orange and Telecom China have signed a Research partnership on

Smart cities and FIWARE is part of the deal. The objective is to educate China

Telecom Staff to FIWARE and then to launch pilots in Shanghai and Macao.

Japan The activities performed by FI-LINKS with regards to Japan can be summed up in the

exchange of best practices related to the vision on Future Internet in international

cooperation opportunities, mainly via the 5th EU-Japan Symposium in ICT Research

and Innovation17. The main activities were aimed at gathering information about

strategic initiatives that are being undertaken in Japan; as well as contributing to

the FIWARE Mundus objective of promoting the assets of the programme

beyond Europe. Participation in FIWARE in a new EU-Japan Symposium planned on

6-7 October 2016 is under preparation with the EC. Worth noting is also the great

interest of the Start-up Europe initiative in India, with several events being planned in

the last months of 2016.

FIWARE is also one of the platforms being used by the test beds from the

FESTIVAL project18. Additionally, some interest was raised for a possible

cooperation opportunity through GCTC between the City of Genoa in Italy and the

City of Chikuma in Japan. This has not (yet) translated into an actual cooperation.

India FI-LINKS was invited by the FI-Media Support action to a Smart City event in New

Delhi. This raised great interest from the ecosystem (SMEs such as Beyond

Evolution, IIT Delhi, Orange Labs, etc.). The Indian government has recently

launched a large Smart City Challenge with the objective to setup 100 smart cities.

FIWARE seems to be perceived as a relevant technology to deliver innovative

applications. Worth noting that Forthcode, an SME from Bangalore, is already

developing FIWARE-based applications for the City of Eindhoven.

In addition, one of the FIWARE players involved in the set-up of a commercial

FIWARE (as contracted by FI-Core) is organising in September 2016 a workshop in

India in order to promote FIWARE in the domain of smart cities.

17 5th EU-Japan Symposium in ICT Research and Innovation: http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/past-events/5th-eu-japan-symposium-in-

ict-research-and-innovation.html 18 Cf. http://www.festival-project.eu/.

http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/past-events/5th-eu-japan-symposium-in-ict-research-and-innovation.html

http://www.ict-fire.eu/events/past-events/5th-eu-japan-symposium-in-ict-research-and-innovation.html

http://www.festival-project.eu/



Other countries The CONNECT2SEA and also SEA-EU-NET 2 support actions, which have the

objective to develop cooperation between Europe and ASEAN countries, have invited

FI-LINKS in two events in order to promote the FIWARE technology: the CIO

Forum in Djakarta (March 2016), and the APAN summit in Hong Kong (August

2016). Much interest was raised from the participants, mainly from the Institute

Technologic Bandung in Indonesia but also by the Netnam organisation from

Vietnam. Both are planning to set up a FIWARE associated node in the near future, to

develop smart city services.

Some contacts had been established with Korea e.g. via a common project between

TID and Korea Telekom and via the IoT-enabled smart city working group, however

there is no real prospect for FIWARE in Korea at this time19.

2.1.5 FIWARE Mundus Survey

At the beginning of Year 2 of the project, the question was raised about how to define the geographical areas

that should be looked upon in priority. It was agreed that the FIWARE stakeholders and more specifically

the organisations involved in the FI-PPP projects as well as the start-ups and SMEs that were involved in the

“FIWARE Accelerate” programme were to be targeted with a dedicated survey.

The FI-LINKS project therefore launched a survey among all those players to understand who was interested

in activities/market places outside Europe.

The objective of this survey was twofold:

1. First, with this survey, the FI-LINKS project looked at prioritizing its next FIWARE Mundus

activities at international level to match the business interests and expectations from the European

industry, and in particular the organizations that have been involved in the FI-PPP. This survey

allowed those organizations to provide such information and make sure that the countries being

investigated by FI-LINKS were the ones they are most interested in.

2. The second objective of this survey was to keep those organisations interested in a given

country/geographical area in the loop of what is going on, and makes them benefit of FIWARE

Mundus support for further activities in those areas.

The survey was composed of 10 questions:

1. About you and your organisation

- First name/Last name

- Company/Organisation

- Your organization's type (industry, SME, academia, accelerator, others)

- City/Country

- Email

2. Are you interested in FIWARE promotion outside Europe?

- Yes

- No

19 Cf. https://www.fiware.org/2016/03/17/fiware-and-ngsiv2-towards-harmonized-apis-and-data-models-for-real-time-context-data/

and https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-participates-in-international-working-group-to-develop-consensus-framework-for-iot-

enabled-smart-city-architectures/

https://www.fiware.org/2016/03/17/fiware-and-ngsiv2-towards-harmonized-apis-and-data-models-for-real-time-context-data/

https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-participates-in-international-working-group-to-develop-consensus-framework-for-iot-enabled-smart-city-architectures/

https://www.fiware.org/news/fiware-participates-in-international-working-group-to-develop-consensus-framework-for-iot-enabled-smart-city-architectures/



- Please explain in a few words why you are interested (or not)

3. If you are interested in Africa, please state what countries

- Senegal

- Tunisia

- Others (please specify)

4. If you are interested in Asia, please state what countries

- China

- India

- Japan

- Korea


5. If you are interested in North America, please state what countries

- Canada

- USA

- Mexico

6. If you are interested in Latin America, please state what countries

- Mexico

- Brazil

- Chile


7. Please state what type of interest your organisation has with each of those countries

- Provide FIWARE technical support e.g. help to use FIWARE

- Help set up and operate a FIWARE node

- Provide other types of services e.g. training, consulting, etc.

- Partner with a local organisation

- Partner with a subsidiary of my organisation

- Just be informed about the FIWARE activities carried out in these countries


8. Are you aware of the activities performed by FIWARE Mundus outside Europe?

- Yes

- No



- If yes, where from? (FIWARE News/Blogs, FI-PPP Newsletters, Basecamp posts, others –please

specify)

9. Are you interested in cooperating further with with the FIWARE Mundus initiative?

- Yes

- No

- If yes, please explain in a few words what kind of cooperation with FIWARE Mundus you envisage

10. I and my organisation agree to share the responses to this survey with the other respondents (all

part of the FI-PPP) (if you select "no" then the information will be kept confidential)

- Yes

- No

This was posted on Basecamp in January 2016 and also sent to all FI-PPP participants (via the general

mailing list provided by CONCORD).

FIWARE Mundus survey general results

The survey received 42 responses, including 31 from SMEs (i.e. 74%), 3 from start-ups (i.e. 7%), 2 from

Industry (i.e. 5%), 1 from academia (i.e. 2%), and 5 from “others” (i.e. 12%).

21 respondents indicated in the questionnaire (or provided us with this information by email) in which FI-

PPP project/accelerator they are involved in. Four respondents are involved in more than 1

project/accelerator.

The projects/accelerators are:

Accelerators: Soul-FI (7 respondents); FI-Adopt (3); Speed-Up Europe (2); Fractals (2); Finish (2); FI-

Business (1); Frontier Cities (1); Finodex (1); FI-C3 (1); and FICHe (1)

FI-PPP Projects: FINESCE (1); FI-Core (1)

CSAs : FI-LINKS CSA (2 : Martel and InterInnov)

First of all, we analysed the responses per geographical area (i.e. Africa, Asia, North America, and Latin

America). The results of this first analysis were as follows:

North America: the respondents are interested in USA (78%) and Canada (74%), with a slight preference

for the US and less interest in Mexico (52%)

Latin America: the respondents are equally interested in Brazil (70%), and Mexico (69%) and less in

Chile (64%). It is worth nothing that 9 respondents are also interested in cooperating with Colombia and

6 respondents with Argentina.

Asia: the respondents are interested in:

China (69%)

Japan (69%)

Korea (59%)

India (45%)

In addition to the above, four respondents declared to be also interested in cooperating with

Singapore.

The respondents express less interest in Africa (except for two respondents who identified the Arabic

speaking countries as priority).



This shows that there is no strong indication of a given geographical area to focus on. For this reason, we

asked the respondents to indicate the two top countries that are a priority for their business. 17 respondents

provided us with this additional information. The majority of them listed USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and

China –in order of preference. This is in line with the general results.

The respondents are envisaging different kinds of cooperation with FIWARE Mundus. The majority of them

stated that they are interested in partnering with a local organisation in the countries they are most interested

in. They are also interested in providing FIWARE technical support and other types of services.

The full report is available in the Annex I.

FIWARE Mundus survey: results per category of organisation

As a second step, we analysed the results per category of organisation (i.e. SMEs and start-ups, and “other

categories”, meaning 2 Industry, 1 Academia and 5 “others”).

34 SMEs (31) and start-ups (3) responded to the FIWARE Mundus Survey. SMEs and Start-Ups are equally

interested in Asia, North America and Latin America. For this reason, we asked the respondents to indicate

the two countries which represent a priority for their business. 12 SMEs and 2 Start-Ups provided us with

this additional information. The majority of them (i.e. 50%) listed the US as a priority country.

Regarding the “other categories”, 2 Industry, 1 Academia and 5 “others” responded to the questionnaire.

Here are the results for each of the above-mentioned category:

The two representatives of Industry are equally interested in North America (USA, Canada) and in

Latin America (Brazil);

The representative of Academia is interested in Asia (Japan, Korea), USA, Brazil and Mexico;

The five representatives of the “other” category are interested in USA, Canada, China, Japan, Chile

and Korea (in order of preference)

The full report per category of organisations is available in Annex I.

FIWARE Mundus survey: conclusions

This analysis underlines that the respondents are equally interested in collaborating with Asia, North

America and Latin America and expressed less interest in Africa. For each geographical area, the

respondents aim to prioritise their collaboration with:

North America: USA and Canada

Latin America: Brazil and Mexico

Asia: China and Japan

90% of the respondents expressed their willingness to collaborate further with FIWARE Mundus.

In order to keep those organisations interested in a given country/geographical area in the loop of what is

going on, and makes them benefit of FIWARE Mundus support for further activities in those areas, we

created for each country/geographical area a detailed mailing list with the contact of the companies who

expressed the willingness to be informed about the next activities/opportunities.

2.2 Opportunities for FIWARE accelerators and start-ups

Throughout the international activities and more specifically via the US GCTC programme, one of the main

differentiators of FIWARE versus its main competitors was not only that it was not a commercial product

sold by a single vendor, but also that was not only presented as a “platform” but along with solutions and

applications developed by start-ups and SMEs. FI-LINKS interacted as much as possible the FIWARE

accelerators so that start-ups and SMEs involved in the “FIWARE Accelerate” programme could participate

in international activities, as soon as they were interested to do so of course.



The internal communication tool set up by the FIWARE Press Office to facilitate interaction among the

FIWARE community, at first Basecamp and then “mobilize”, proved to be an interesting tool to reach and

mobilise accelerators and start-ups. Discussions at FIWARE related events also proved to be a good means

to make accelerators, start-ups and SMEs aware of the FIWARE Mundus activities. Another tool that was

used was the FIWARE Mundus survey, described in the previous section.

As a result of the involvement of accelerators, SMEs and start-ups into FIWARE Mundus activities,

interesting prospects are developing:

About 20 start-ups and SMEs have had the opportunity to demonstrate their FIWARE-based products

and solutions in the various GCTC events attended by FIWARE delegations under the coordination of

FI-LINKS. Several of them are currently interacting with US cities and organisations in order to proceed

with further cooperation, either within GCTC or beyond.

Several start-ups and SMEs demonstrated their FIWARE-based products and solutions to the Chinese

representatives of the City of Hengqin, who are now expecting Chinese solutions to be presented to them

for possible adoption.

INFOTEC, with the support of FINNOVA Program of Economy Ministry, is planning to set-up an

Acceleration programme in Mexico, similar to the A16 programme established in Europe.

Several EU-based start-ups presented their products and solutions to Mexican and Brazilian FIWARE-

related events.

About 35 start-ups and SMEs participated in the FIWARE Mundus survey and have been receiving

specific information about activities in the various countries they indicated interest into.

2.3 The role of the FI-LINKS Future Internet Advisory Board in identifying FIWARE

opportunities at international level

Although the FI-LINKS Future Internet Advisory Board was instrumental in triggering cooperation in a

couple of countries outside Europe in Year 1 (i.e. USA and Canada) and at European Regions level, there

was no further interaction with the Advisory Board with respect to international activities during Year 2 of

the project. Indeed, sufficient progress had been achieved in reaching international stakeholders, and it was

decided that the Advisory Board in Year 2 was more relevant for supporting the roadmap effort from Work

Package 1.

Still, interaction continued with two of the former members, Glenn Ricart from U.S. Ignite, and Alberto

Leon-Garcia from University of Toronto. Glenn was particularly instrumental in the relationship that has

been built with GCTC and NIST, and is still regularly introducing FIWARE to other US players. Al

introduced FIWARE to his students and succeeded in the development of the first North America prototype

using FIWARE.



3 LESSONS LEARNT AND CONCLUSIONS – RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

3.1 Main conclusions from FI-LINKS Year 2 international engagement activities

Engagement activities at the European and international level during Year 2 of the FI-LINKS project have

started to lead to some specific results in terms of adoption of FIWARE outside Europe and in terms of

cooperation between European and non-European stakeholders. Some of the main conclusions that could be

drawn from this second year are as follow:

“FIWARE Mundus” is now a clearly established and recognised brand for the activities led by FIWARE

at international level.

FIWARE’s main assets as seen at international level include the fact that it is an Open Source solution

(vs. vendors locked-in solutions), and the hundreds of solutions and applications already developed by

SMEs and start-ups as part of the “FIWARE Accelerate” programme. FI-LINKS was one of the main

trigger behind the recently announced “Powered by FIWARE” catalogue of FIWARE-based solutions

and applications that should be put on line in the near future. In the meantime, FI-LINKS already offered

the opportunity to some of the FIWARE start-ups and SMEs to access such an online catalogue initiated

by Urban Systems in the USA20.

One concrete activity around FIWARE at international level is to set up a FIWARE Lab node (or a

FIWARE instance). This seems to be perceived as a necessary first step by the local stakeholders before

engaging further into the adoption of FIWARE on a broader level. A typical example is the City of

Portland in the USA that has delegated the set-up of the Lab node to the Portland State University, with

the idea of making it a showcase for the development of smart cities applications, that could then

eventually be adopted at city level.

There is a growing interest in setting up FIWARE instances not only for commercial purposes but also

for educational purposes. Several organisations have expressed such interest, in order to educate students

using an innovative (and open source) platform, but also to trigger their entrepreneurship spirit, as

applications can more easily be developed and then commercialised. More generally the set-up of a

FIWARE Lab node is considered as a ‘means of attraction’ for the local innovation ecosystem, as

demonstrated e.g. in Canada by the Edmonton Research Park and CENSON in Prince Edward Island.

There are however some key challenges that need to be overcome:

The formal set-up of the FIWARE Foundation has been announced for more than one year and is

happening only now21. This is clearly a challenge as stakeholders are relying on some level of reliable

technical support that is currently provided by FI-Core but that is not extensible and may reach its limits

soon especially if more and more players are setting up Lab nodes. Support from some key companies

behind FIWARE such as Telefonica in LatAm and Orange is Africa may prove to be a key asset in the

future success, besides the set-up of the Foundation, and along the growing involvement of new industry

members of the Foundation -including local players willing to support FIWARE in various countries

outside Europe.

Although the visibility of FIWARE is growing at international level, it still misses some striking

examples of adoption by significant players. In this respect, the need for finding local industry players

20 Cf. https://catalog.sphaera.world/. 21 At the time of drafting this deliverable, the FIWARE Foundation has finally been submitted for formal creation in Germany, and

the final formal set-up is expected before the end of 2016. It still needs to become fully operational and staffed but this is definitely a

good step forward.

https://catalog.sphaera.world/



willing to provide services around FIWARE is a key challenge, along with significant success stories

outside Europe. In short, pilots and trials are kicking off, but commercial success is still in its infancy22.

Several entities are interested in the deployment of a FIWARE Lab node. Still, the support to

deployment activities is currently only provided by best effort support activities of FIWARE partners. To

widen and fasten the deployment of FIWARE Lab nodes, there is the need of a clear (commercial?)

offer, providing support in the design and deployment of FIWARE Lab nodes.

One of FIWARE’s unique selling propositions as a potential de-facto standard, strongly in line with the

“write once run everywhere” motto, is attractive to start-ups and entrepreneurs worldwide. However,

existing pilots and even success stories still need help to deliver their value proposition to communities

where FIWARE has not been deployed. For example, empowering application developers to act as

FIWARE ambassadors would help to improve the visibility of FIWARE.

In the 2nd year of FI-LINKS, thanks to the activities related to FIWARE Mundus, FIWARE has clearly

stepped up at international level from “what is that?” into “I have heard this name already”23, and is

improving its visibility by the day all around the world. The current set-up of several FIWARE Lab nodes in

several locations outside Europe is clearly a major step ahead.

3.2 Main Recommendations for follow-up activities

As stated in the previous sections, much progress has been made at international level in the past couple of

years. The FIWARE brand name is acknowledged, a few FIWARE Lab nodes have been and are being set

up, and relevant contacts have been made with innovators and users in many countries.

In the case of GCTC, the solutions deployed in European cities by start-ups, SMEs and large organisations

are on the edge of being used also in US cities, via GCTC “action cluster” projects. Interestingly, GCTC is

conceived not as a US-centric programme but as a “global” programme, providing FIWARE innovators and

users with the possibility to cooperate not only with US cities and organisations but also with those from

other countries, especially from Asia and Africa, FIWARE being the main provider of “European content” in

GCTC2016.

The past activities at international level have been built with a mix of top-down and bottom-up approach.

Some priorities were set e.g. Latin America, but then opportunities were grabbed when they were deemed

relevant, e.g. with USA and more recently with China and Canada, not to mention Africa.

Based on this, the main recommendations that FI-LINKS makes for the future are:

Significantly broaden and strengthen the engagement of relevant players in order to increase and the

number of FIWARE ecosystems around the world, e.g. via the set-up of international pilot projects via a

dedicated “FIWARE Global Piloting Programme”, supporting more pilot trials around the world with the

objective of eventually kicking off commercial offers;

Empower existing FIWARE users, with particular focus on start-ups and app developers, to leverage on

them for additional evangelization and engagement of stakeholders. In this sense, it is critical to set up as

soon as possible the “Powered by FIWARE” catalogue of FIWARE-based solutions and applications,

and provide additional tools to support networking and interaction between all the local / regional

ecosystems stakeholders –among end-users, among innovators, between innovators and end-users,

among the FIWARE existing community.

Encourage the promotion of FIWARE for educational and entrepreneurship purposes e.g. via the set-up

of a global “FIWARE Master Course”, strengthening local education communities everywhere so that

students and entrepreneurs may learn about FIWARE in Universities and then use it for developing

22 This state of fact is however mostly true for Europe as well and not only at international level. 23 As stated for example at GCTC Expo in the USA in March 2016.



products and solutions that can fit local needs to start with, and then be replicated in other places -as

FIWARE allows.

This means that although opportunities will still be looked upon in a bottom-up mode, an overall strategy for

worldwide promotional activities shall be defined and implemented, as much as possible in relation with the

priorities set by the FIWARE Foundation, where a “FIWARE Mundus” committee shall be set up.

International members shall be encouraged to join the FIWARE Foundation, in order to ensure that FIWARE

becomes truly global -although born in Europe.



ANNEX I: FIWARE MUNDUS FULL SURVEY RESULTS

FIWARE Mundus Survey – Full Results

(Business interests outside Europe)

General Results

The FIWARE Mundus Survey, organised by the FI-LINKS project, received 42 responses, including 31 from

SMEs (i.e. 74%), 3 from start-ups (i.e. 7%), 2 from Industry (i.e. 5%), 1 from academia (i.e. 2%), and 5 from

“others” (i.e. 12%).

21 respondents indicated in the questionnaire (or provided us with this information by email) in which FI-

PPP project/accelerator they are involved in. Four respondents are involved in more than 1

project/accelerator. The projects/accelerators are:

Accelerators: Soul-FI (7 respondents); FI-Adopt (3); Speed-Up Europe (2); Fractals (2); Finish (2); FI-

Business (1); Frontier Cities (1); Finodex (1); FI-C3 (1); and FICHe (1)

FI-PPP Projects: FINESCE (1); FI-Core (1)

CSAs: FI-LINKS CSA (2 : Martel and InterInnov)

Geographical Focus

First of all, we analysed the responses per geographical area (i.e. Africa, Asia, North America, and Latin

America). The results of this first analysis are as follows:

North America: the respondents are interested in USA (78%) and Canada (74%), with a slight preference

for the US and less interest in Mexico (52%)

Latin America: the respondents are equally interested in Brazil (70%), and Mexico (69%) and less in

Chile (64%). It is worth nothing that 9 respondents are also interested in cooperating with Colombia and

6 respondents with Argentina.

Asia: the respondents are interested in:

China (69%)

Japan (69%)

Korea (59%)

India (45%)

In addition to the above, four respondents declared to be also interested in cooperating with

Singapore.

The respondents express less interest in Africa (except for two respondents who identified the Arabic

speaking countries as priority).

This shows that there is no strong indication of a given geographical area to focus on. For this reason, we

asked the respondents to indicate the two top countries that are a priority for their business. 17 respondents

provided us with this additional information. The majority of them listed USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and

China –in order of preference. This is in line with the general results.

Activities at International Level

As indicated in the table below, the respondents are envisaging different kinds of cooperation with FIWARE

Mundus. The majority of them stated that they are interested in partnering with a local organisation in the

countries they are most interested in. They are also interested in providing FIWARE technical support

and other types of services.



In addition to the above, the respondents aim at expanding their partnerships and collaborations outside

Europe, sharing their experience as FIWARE success story and, in certain cases, becoming a focal point for

FIWARE Mundus in a given country and export FIWARE technology in a geographical area that is not

covered by FIWARE Mundus. In addition, some of the respondents are interested in teaching training

sessions, hands-on workshops and in sharing experiences and technical advices about FIWARE. In addition,

some of the respondents are also interested in helping FIWARE Mundus to promote the usage of FIWARE

outside Europe.

Cooperation with FIWARE Mundus

The majority of respondents (i.e. 57%) are not aware of the activities performed by FIWARE Mundus

outside Europe. This should lead to some corrective actions from FIWARE Mundus/FI-LINKS.

Results per Category of Organisation

SMEs and Start-Ups

34 SMEs (31) and start-ups (3) responded to the FIWARE Mundus Survey. The results of the SMEs and

Start-Ups analysis are as follows:

North America: the respondents are more interested in the US (71%) and Canada (68%) and less in

Mexico (53%);

South America: the respondents are equally interested in Brazil (71%), Chile (71%) and Mexico (65%).

It is worth nothing that the 18% of the respondents is also interested in collaborating with Colombia.

Asia: the respondents are more interested in China (71%) and Japan (65%) and less in Korea (53%) and

India (48%);

The respondents expressed less interest in Africa.

SMEs and Start-Ups are equally interested in Asia, North America and Latin America. For this reason, we

asked the respondents to indicate the two countries which represent a priority for their business. 12 SMEs

and 2 Start-Ups provided us with this additional information. The majority of them (i.e. 50%) listed the US

as a priority country.



The table below summarises what kind of collaboration they envisage in the countries they are interested in.

Other Categories

2 Industry, 1 Academia and 5 “others” responded to the questionnaire. Here are the results for each of the

above-mentioned category:

The two representatives of Industry are equally interested in North America (USA, Canada) and in

Latin America (Brazil);

The representative of Academia is interested in Asia (Japan, Korea), USA, Brazil and Mexico;

The five representatives of the “other” category are interested in USA, Canada, China, Japan, Chile

and Korea (in order of preference)

The table below summarises what kind of collaboration with FIWARE Mundus they are envisaging:



Conclusions

This analysis underlines that the respondents are equally interested in collaborating with Asia, North

America and Latin America and expressed less interest in Africa. For each geographical area, the

respondents aim to prioritise their collaboration with:

North America: USA and Canada

Latin America: Brazil and Mexico

Asia: China and Japan

90% of the respondents expressed their willingness to collaborate further with FIWARE Mundus. As

reported in section 1 “General results” they are envisaging different kinds of participation in our activities.

This will be further investigated by the FIWARE Mundus team.

Documents

: Report on FI stakeholders’ engagement and use of FI-PPP ... · Link and Evangelize the FI-PPP from Europe to the world for the benefit of FI research and innovation and to the