RESEARCH: Projects

 INFORMACIÓN GENERAL

 INVOLVED COMPANIES

 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

A key ambition of OrganiCity is to make the creation and design of technologies and services for cities more inclusive for citizens and communities. It aims to tackle the question of how smart cities can be organically grown from citizens and communities instead of being engineered by the visions of large corporates and city governments alone.

OrganiCity will offer the FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) community and urban service developers a flexible Experimentation-as-a-Service facility for smart city infrastructure and urban service design. The facility will allow full exploitation of emerging Future Internet technologies such as the Internet of Things and social media tools.

Instead of building a facility from scratch, OrganiCity brings together three leading urban innovation ecosystems in the cities of Aarhus, London and Santander. It will combine these complementary sites into a common experimentation platform that offers environmental and cultural diversity to its users. OrganiCity will augment the integrated facility with novel tools that empower citizens to be part of the co-creation process at different stages of the urban technology design lifecycle and provide different means of their participatory engagement. The principle of co-creation will be applied to the facility itself, as the consortium partners aim to engage citizens and relevant stakeholders in the design of the facility use cases and requirements, its tools and even the open calls that will be carried out on top of it.