Brussels Smart

Crowdsourcing week

Brussels ChallengesSmart city examplesSmart city - tomorrow

Challenges - demography

Challenges - housing

Challenges : road traffic

(35% extra travel time or 42 min >

2%)

Challenges – school dropouts

Challenges: youth unemployment

“Brussels reminds me of Berlin.” (Financial Times)

25,5% of Belgian ICT-start-ups, created in Brussels

Of the 100.000 jobs in ICT in Belgium=> jobs in Brussels: 26,2% On the European Digital City Index 2015 (UK Nesta): Brussel 7th for scale up & 9th for start up

Smart City - today

=> by, for& with Brussels citizens:-Infrastructure

- Fiber to the Street: 1 miljoen euro / per year => 166 secundary schools (till 2020)

- Wifi on 80 public place areas- Smart government

-Data- Open Data policy - Hackatons

Smart city today

Lessons learned: Bordeaux

wifi.brussels

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Lessons learned Rio

: Brussels cameras and approach

15

Lessons learned Barcelona

Participation

Pacco test (citymined)

Smartcity.brussels

Digital inclusion focus BrusselsCapital Digital

+ Le Wagon coding bootcamp scholarship

Smart city tomorrow

http://opendatastore.brussels

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Smart city today - data

Future: What makes a city smart?Problem Driven

Open dataShared standardsThe city as a platformTopdown meets bottom upDemocratic

Smart and digital city strategy

• Focus on areas from the Digital Economy and Society index– Connectivity– Human capital– Usage of Internet– Integration of digital technologies– Digital Government

Smart and digital city strategy

• And also– Transversal approach– Mutualisation and re-use– Digital inclusion– European Dimension– Governance– Performance measurement

ContactBianca.debaets@gov.brussels

tdelestre@gov.Brussels