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remove all the obstacles encountered by mid-sized cities in their digital journey

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  1. Local and digital democracy
  2. Digital transition
  3. Smart city

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The project encompasses studies and the creation of an operational entity that will apply in real life the results of studies. This entity will act as a facilitator to provide concrete solutions to support mid-sized cities in their digital journey. The definition and implementation of this acceleration mechanism is based on 3 streams: 1. Business model study for an acceleration mechanism of the digitalisation of mid-sized cities o Benchmarking of city needs, legal structure for an acceleration mechanism, organization of a continuous digital monitoring o Coaching strategy for local animation o Intermediation of relationships between cities and solution providers o Creation of an adapted and sustainable business model for mid-sized cities 2. Technical study for the platform o Instantiation of a universal Fiware platform capable of engaging any smart city use case in any domain or subject o Interfacing it with interoperable standards defined at international level (TM Forum, Front Runner City) 3. Operational phase o Creation of an operational entity that implements the results of studies (technical and business model) o Extension of the entity operations to several cities in France and Europe (objective of about ten territories in the next 2 to 3 years)

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As the challenge is focused of the co-creation of sustainable and scalable business models taking into account specific needs and required for digital transition of mid-sized cities, the aim is to open-collaboration network limited to cities with small and medium size (less than 100.000 inhabitants). While Saint Quentin is a medium-sized city of 56.000 inhabitants, located in the North of France, it is active on the international level. The city is member of Open & Agile Smart Cities, acts as a local digital innovation hub, and cooperates in a co-innovation program with TM Forum, the telecoms association, to define standards for City as a Platform paradigm. This co-innovation international program addresses the technical part of the challenge with the ambition to create the best framework feasible for developing a scalable, interoperable and universal platform to support cities in their digital journey

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13 February 2019

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Institution: 
Ville de Saint-Quentin
City: 
Saint-Quentin
Country: 
France
Type of region: 
Transition