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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723088

D.3.3 - Matching of ICT Priorities in Mexico

with FIWARE Mundus Roadmap.

Interim version

Grant Agreement number: 723088

Project acronym: FIWARE Mexico

Funding Scheme: Coordination and Support Action

Due date: 31/05/2017

Actual date: 07/07/2017

Document Author/s: MARTEL, TID

Version: 1.0

Dissemination level: PU

Status: Final

Copyright © FIWARE Mexico Consortium 2016 – 2018

Matching ICT Priorities in Mexico with FIWARE Mundus Roadmap

WP3_D3.3 FIWARE Mexico of 25

Document History

Version Date Comments Author

0.1 1.06.2017 Structure of the document Monique Calisti (Martel)

0.2 27.06.2017 Section 3 edited Miguel Carrillo (TID)

0.3 02.07.2017 Editing Exec Summary, Section 1,

checked Section3, started Section 2 Monique Calisti (Martel)

0.4 05.07.2017 Section 2 and 3 Margherita Trestini

(Martel)

1.0 06.07.2017 Final version Margherita Trestini,

Monique Calisti (Martel)

1.0 07/07/2017 Comments to final version Yolanda Ursa, INMARK



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................. 5 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 6 2 ICT PRIORITIES IN MEXICO ............................................................................................... 7 2.1 ICT R&I experience and FIWARE awareness .................................................................. 8 2.2 ICT priorities in Mexico .................................................................................................... 10 2.3 Analysis of priority topics by FIWARE domain ................................................................ 12 3 FIWARE MUNDUS ROADMAP ......................................................................................... 15 3.1 Short term objectives ....................................................................................................... 15 3.2 Medium term and long-term objectives ........................................................................... 16 3.3 Current status .................................................................................................................. 17 4 MATCHING ICT PRIORITIES IN MEXICO WITH FIWARE MUNDUS ROAMAP ............. 22 5 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS ................................................................................. 24 6 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................... 25



LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Assessment of participation in EU projects ........................................................ 8 Figure 2: Willingness to participate in R&I funding programmes ........................................ 9 Figure 3 Percentage of awareness of FIWARE ................................................................. 9 Figure 4: Barriers for ICT R&I collaboration .................................................................. 10 Figure 5 Potential ICT Priorities for organisations .......................................................... 11 Figure 6 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Health .................................................... 12 Figure 7 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Energy ................................................... 13 Figure 8 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Industry 4.0 ............................................ 13 Figure 9 Activities and Events in North America (May 2017) ........................................... 17 Figure 10 Activities and Events in South America (May 2017) ......................................... 18 Figure 11 Activities and Events in Africa (May 2017) ..................................................... 19 Figure 12 Activities and Events in Asia (May 2017) ........................................................ 20

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 FIWARE Mundus Objectives and Activities ......................................................... 15 Table 2 FIWARE Mundus in North America .................................................................... 18 Table 3 FIWARE Mundus in South America ................................................................... 18 Table 4 FIWARE Mundus in Africa ................................................................................ 19 Table 5 FIWARE Mundus in Asia .................................................................................. 20 Table 6 International Pilot Trials under investigation ...................................................... 21



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The FIWARE Mexico project addresses the challenge of enhancing FIWARE-driven

collaboration between Europe and Mexico to foster the creation of a global future

Internet ecosystem in Mexico that can benefit from the adoption of the

technologies, concepts and community reach as established in Europe, and in

several other countries around the world, by the FIWARE initiative. This, in turn, is

crucial to help consolidating and evolving the FIWARE offering and its value to all

innovators globally.

Within this context, an important set of activities that FIWARE Mexico is pursuing,

specifically led by work package 3, aims at identifying and exploring in a broader

context what are the R&D priorities in the ICT domain of common interest and

mutual value for the EU-Mexico collaboration to grow stronger.

This is of high relevance as reconfirmed recently (May 2017) by Roberto Viola -

Director General of DG Connect at the EC:

“The EU and Mexico are strategic partners which share common values in

promoting positions on key issues of global concern, like climate change, free trade,

human rights and disarmament, is recognised by the EU as a great contribution to

maintaining a free and open world.” [2]

This document, which is an interim version of the planned report to be delivered at

M14 (i.e., end of October 2017), provides a first matching of the ICT priorities in

Mexico in relation to the FIWARE Mundus roadmap and overall FIWARE Mexico

planned work and is organized as follows:

• Overview of the ICT priorities in Mexico as identified on the basis of

investigation and analysis as conducted within WP3 [2].

• Overview of the FIWARE Mundus Roadmap as recently announced by the

FIWARE Mundus Committee [3].

• Matching of the priorities to align FIWARE-driven efforts in Mexico.

The deliverable, which will evolve in line with the development of the overall project

work and activities in close collaboration with all work packages, is written primarily

as a guide for FIWARE Mexico project partners and for key stakeholders in the

FIWARE context to have a clearer understanding of how to create stronger

synergies and foster for future collaborations in the ICT domain between Europe

and Mexico.



1 INTRODUCTION

The FIWARE Mexico project addresses the challenge of enhancing FIWARE-driven



technologies, concepts and community reach as established by the FIWARE

initiative in Europe, and in several other countries around the world. This, in turn, is

deemed as crucial to help consolidating and evolving the FIWARE offering and its

value to all innovators and potential adopters.

To specifically help elaborating on how the promotion of FIWARE can act as a

catalyser to strengthen and grow the EU-MEX collaboration in the ICT domain, the

FIWARE Mexico consortium has organised a set of dedicated activities under the

lead of work package 3, WP3 Priority setting & follow-up for cooperation in ICT and

FIWARE. This deliverable has been produced as a result of WP3-driven work with

the main goal of providing a first overall matching of ICT priorities in Mexico in

relation to the FIWARE Mundus roadmap on the one side and on the FIWARE

Mexico planned work.

In particular, this first version of the report (actually the consolidated version that

is D3.4 is planned at M14, i.e., end of October 2017) provides an overview of the

work:

• On the Mexican side, to understand the needs, challenges, opportunities and

overall ICT priorities for R&D&I players [2]. As described in Section 2, the

work has been conducted by consulting Mexican players and analysing the

gathered data, knowing this is a first step analysis that will be extended by

engaging a higher number of players through various planned FIWARE Mexico

activities.

• On the European side, to align on the overall FIWARE community efforts,

success stories and lessons learned that can be transferred to Mexico [4] and

by taking into account the internationalisation efforts as led by FIWARE

Mundus [3], which in fact reflect the overall business strategy of the FIWARE

Foundation.

This analysis, which will be extended in the next months by collecting more

information on the Mexican and European side through in-depth interviews with key

stakeholders and thought leaders , is of high relevance to the whole DG Connect

activities as indicated by the 1st EU-Mexico dialogue on Digital economy held in

Brussels 19th May 2017 [1]. As a matter of fact, Europe and Mexico agreed on

aligning on several efforts covering the future Internet initiatives, High Performance

Computing, ICT standardisation, data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, etc.

FIWARE Mexico is committed to help achieving this vision both in the short and long

term.



2 ICT PRIORITIES IN MEXICO

FIWARE Mexico has carried out an analysis to identify priority topics for future

cooperation between Mexico and Europe in the field of ICT R&I and

FIWARE. Between April and June 2017, an online survey was distributed to 3.250

stakeholders from Mexico, representing ICT researchers from academia and the

industry, decision makers, government institutions and associations. We collected

and analysed the answers of 398 respondents. They represent universities and

research centres (75%), industry (18%), government institutions, associations and

NGOs (7%). A helicopter view of the results highlights the following:

• High interest in Europe-Mexico cooperative ICT I&R projects

(96%)

• High level of satisfaction (45%) among respondents who had

previous experience in participating in collaborative projects with

Europe.

• Good matching between ICT priorities and FIWARE domains, with

Health and Energy indicated as the 2 top priorities for research in Mexico.

• Low experience (8.2%) in Europe-Mexico ICT R&I projects

• Lack of information (open calls, areas of research etc.)

• Low awareness of FIWARE technology (15%)

The questionnaire gathered the following data:

1. Basic Information: basic data of respondents (position, organisation

type and number of employees).

2. Perspectives for R&I Collaboration: previous experience in collaborative

R&I projects Europe, including current involvement in R&I projects and

initiatives relevant to Next Generation Internet; overall assessment of Europe-

Mexico collaboration in R&I; interest in future collaboration with Europe in

specific topics and areas for collaborative R&I projects.

3. Awareness of FIWARE and how FIWARE solutions can benefit research in the

domains of smart cities, security, health, energy and industry 4.0.

4. Barriers for Europe-Mexico collaboration in ICT R&I: perceived current

barriers and problems for taking part in ICT R&I cooperation projects between

Mexico and Europe.

5. ICT and FIWARE Priorities for R&I collaboration between Europe and

Mexico: Comprises the list of selected ICT priority topics (16) connected to

FIWARE technologies to be ranked by respondents according to their knowledge

and experience:

• Cloud Computing

• Intelligent transport system

• IoT

• Smart Factory

• Smart Home

• Security monitoring

• Big Data

• Data Sovereignty

• Advanced manufacturing

• Real time information technology



• Energy efficiency

• Electric Vehicles Support Technologies

• Smart citizen-centred energy system

• Healthcare platform development

• Artificial Intelligence

• Software defined technology

2.1 ICT R&I experience and FIWARE awareness

Only 8.2% of Mexican respondents have participated in ICT R&I projects in

cooperation with Europe.

Their level of satisfaction is in fact divided: while 45% of respondents evaluate

their experience in EU projects participation as positive (22%) or very

positive (23%), 41% of respondents rated their collaboration experience

as negative.

Thus, there is a certain level of dissatisfaction among the respondents who have

participated in ICT R&I collaborative projects with Europe in the past. This should

be taken into account in future actions to improve EU-Mexico cooperation, whether

or not related to FIWARE.

Figure 1: Assessment of participation in EU projects

There is an increasing interest in collaborative research and innovation

with Europe in the field of ICT and FIWARE technologies.

Even if most of the Mexican respondents do not have previous experience in ICT

R&I collaborative projects with Europe, the vast majority (96%) say that they have

interest or are planning to participate in future collaborative international R&I

project. This is an encouraging factor to consider for future collaboration between

Europe and Mexico, especially in areas and topics related to FIWARE.

1 - Negative41%

2 - Fair14%

3 - Positive22%

4 - Very positive23%



Figure 2: Willingness to participate in R&I funding programmes

Awareness of FIWARE technologies and of Next Generation Internet (NGI)

is critical to enhance R&I collaboration between Mexico and Europe.

Only around 15% of the survey respondents are aware of FIWARE

technologies and there is consensus among the FIWARE community in Mexico

about the benefits of FIWARE to research and innovation in Smart cities and

Security, and to a lesser extend in the domains of Health, Energy and Industry 4.0.

Furthermore, other 15% of respondents say they are currently involved in R&I

initiatives that can contribute to build the NGI, e.g. the Red LATE Mexico, Data

Science and Public Health, Smart Cities MX, Big Data and real-time monitoring and

Future Internet initiatives.

Figure 3 Percentage of awareness of FIWARE

The findings of the survey also indicate that in spite of the interest of Mexican

researchers to participate in FIWARE and ICT R&I projects with Europe, there are

still some important barriers that need to be overcome to increase Europe-

Mexico collaboration. Main obstacles perceived by the survey respondents are

associated with the lack of awareness of funding programmes in Mexico, the

lack of awareness about ICT and FIWARE research topics of common

interests, and the lack of experience in international cooperation projects.

In addition, the lack of calls for proposals targeting collaboration between Mexico

and Europe and difficulties to partnership building are also considered an obstacle

to participate in ICT R&I cooperation projects with Europe.

Planning to participate

44%

No interest4%

Interest to participate

52%

15,8% 84,2%Response Percentage

Yes No



Figure 4: Barriers for ICT R&I collaboration

2.2 ICT priorities in Mexico

Top 5 priorities for Mexico-Europe cooperation in FIWARE and ICT R&I.

ICT priority topics identified in Mexico by the survey respondents match with

FIWARE Mexico domains: Smart cities, Security, Health, Energy and Industry 4.0.

The top 5 priority topics in Mexico for future cooperation with Europe are the

following:

• Healthcare platform development (Health and Industry 4.0)

• Energy efficiency (Energy and Industry 4.0)

• Real time information technology (Smart cities and Industry 4.0)

• Security monitoring (Security)

• Artificial Intelligence (Industry 4.0)

0,0%10,0%20,0%30,0%40,0%50,0%60,0%70,0%80,0%90,0%

Others (please specify)

Rules related to IPR and access rights to…

Disalignment with grants timing between…

Long time to receive the grant

Difficulties to build research and…

Lack of calls for proposals targeting…

Lack of experience in international…

Lack of awareness about ICT and FIWARE…

Lack of awareness of funding…



•

Figure 5 Potential ICT Priorities for organisations

Among the specific benefits mentioned for each domain the following research

areas were highlighted:

• Smart cities:

o Technology implemented in Europe is useful for Mexico

o The generation of open data could allow the development of

applications that help improve the quality of life of citizens

o Real-time information related technologies

• Security:

o Network security

o Cybercrime prevention

o Automatic monitoring

• Health:

o Digital transformation in Health

o Big Data in health

o Machine learning in health

• Energy:

o Energy efficiency

o Renewable energy

o Smart grid applications

• Industry 4.0:

o IoT

o eGovernment

o Efficiency

2,77

2,91

2,94

2,96

3,08

3,09

3,16

3,16

3,20

3,23

3,24

3,28

3,29

3,30

3,32

3,42

0,00 0,50 1,00 1,50 2,00 2,50 3,00 3,50 4,00

Smart Home

Smart Factory

Data Sovereignty

Advanced manufacturing

Electric Vehicles Support Technologies

Cloud Computing

Intelligent transport system

Smart citizen-centred energy system

Software defined technology

Internet of Things

Big Data

Artificial Intelligence

Security monitoring

Real time information technology

Energy efficiency

Healthcare platform development

Average



2.3 Analysis of priority topics by FIWARE domain

Health is the top FIWARE domain for Mexico, according to the survey

respondents. There are two specific topics under this domain: healthcare platform

development and big data. Healthcare platform development refers to open

source platform for the purpose of health related digital transformation. It is scored

as the top priority topic under this domain.

Big data refers to data sets that are so large or complex that traditional software

applications for data processing are inadequate to deal with them. Challenges

include capture, storage, analysis, data curation, search, sharing, transfer,

visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

Both topics under the health domain, are within the 1st tier in the ranking of priority

topics.

Figure 6 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Health

• FIWARE Domain: Energy

Energy is considered the second priority domain for FIWARE in Mexico. It includes

the following priority topics:

o Energy efficiency is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to

provide products and services. For example, insulating a home allows a

building to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve and maintain a

comfortable temperature.

o Big data (as defined above).

o Smart citizen-centred energy system. The integration of an increasing

share of renewable energies, a more active role for consumers ('prosumers')

require appropriate integration of existing technologies and new

technologies, infrastructure, management approaches as well as market and

business models.

o Electric vehicles support technologies. An electric vehicle may be

powered through a collector system by electricity from off-vehicle sources,

or may be self-contained with a battery, solar panels or a generator to

convert fuel to electricity.

3,24

3,42

Big Data




Figure 7 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Energy

• FIWARE Domain: Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 has been considered by the survey respondents relatively less

important by the online respondents, being the third most important FIWARE

domain in Mexico.

Figure 8 Priority topics under FIWARE Domain Industry 4.0

Security is considered to be the fourth more important FIWARE domain in Mexico.

This domain comprises the following priority topics:

o Security monitoring technology will alert people when attacks are

underway, providing accurate and timely details that allow you to quickly

respond before threats can wreak havoc on your network.

o Data sovereignty (mentioned above)

Smart cities are considered by the survey respondents to be the fifth most

important FIWARE domain in Mexico. Including:

o Real time information technology (as defined above).

3,08

3,16

3,24

3,32


Smart citizen-centred energy system

Big Data

Energy efficiency

2,77

2,91

2,94

2,96

3,08

3,20

3,23

3,28

3,30

3,32

3,42

Smart Home

Smart Factory

Data Sovereignty

Advanced manufacturing


Software defined technology

IoT

Artificial Intelligence

Real time information technology

Energy efficiency




o Big data (as defined above).

o Internet of Things (as defined above).

o Smart citizen-centred energy system (as defined above).

o Intelligent transport system. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are

advanced applications aiming to provide innovative services relating to

different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various

users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and

'smarter' use of transport networks.

o Cloud Computing. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users

and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in

either privately owned, or third-party data centers that may be located far

from the user–ranging in distance from across a city to across the world.

o Smart factory (mentioned above).

o Smart home (mentioned above).



3 FIWARE MUNDUS ROADMAP

As stated in the recently created Mission Charter of FIWARE Mundus, the main

ambition of FIWARE Mundus is to promote the usage of FIWARE and the set-up of

FIWARE ecosystems at a global level. This broad level goal is materialized in a list

of goals of FIWARE Mundus that revolve around actions that seek to:

• Expand the international network of FIWARE members.

• Gauge the interest in FIWARE and identify business opportunities.

• Act as a facilitator to create FIWARE local ecosystems, FIWARE Lab nodes and

FIWARE commercial instances.

• Promote all sort of actions related to FIWARE all over the world.

• Ensure that the world wise initiatives around FIWARE are sustainable.

• Actively participate in events where FIWARE is relevant and some impact can

be obtained for the benefit of the FIWARE ecosystem.

3.1 Short term objectives

A provisional short-term roadmap allowed to start working before the FIWARE

Mundus Mission Charter was issued. On the 13 December 2016, FIWARE Mundus

and FIWARE Mexico met in the context of the 1st FIWARE Summit, which was held

in Málaga (Spain), and we agreed on a number of urgent actions to start the

progress towards our common objectives of promoting FIWARE worldwide and

namely in Mexico.

The table of actions as agreed upon in that meeting follows:

Table 1 FIWARE Mundus Objectives and Activities

Objective Short-term activities Responsible

Refine geographical

priorities

• Continue promoting FIWARE and supporting stakeholders in the countries already engaged, as deemed relevant

• Interact with the FIWARE Foundation to agree upon selected countries that are seen as a priority, and continue with grabbing relevant opportunities (except if

rejected by the Foundation)

Mundus Committee

Focus on thematic priorities

• Focus on thematic priorities defined by the Foundation i.e. Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and Smart Agriculture

Mundus Committee

Define support provided by the Foundation vs. commercial organisations

• Support to set-up of nodes/instances: what type of support is provided by the FIWARE Foundation, how to differentiate

from support provided by private organisations in this matter?

Should we encourage the creation of local support / service providers from around the world? These remain open questions to be

Mundus Committee with the FIWARE Foundation



clarified with the FIWARE Foundation

• More generally, how to select/handle private providers vs.

FIWARE Foundation support/services? How should we handle potential lack of resources / of support to a given “customer”?

Define promotion and communication actions

• Define the list of relevant events to attend, contribute to, and possibly sponsor

• Coordinate activities on FIWARE

web site and social media (FIWARE Mundus Twitter account)

• Design and print dedicated FIWARE

Mundus PR material whenever relevant

• Find a solution to the issue of the language: user interface / PR material / etc. to be translated in e.g. Spanish (LatAm), French (Africa), Chinese, etc.

Mundus Committee with the FIWARE Press Office

Define how to best engage the FIWARE based ecosystem into

international activities

• Interact with the FIWARE Accelerator Committee in order to attract the “best” start-ups and

SMEs into international activities

and cooperation • Interact with the iHubs Committee

in order to define the best way to create and strengthen local ecosystems around the world e.g. by setting up iHubs outside Europe

Mundus Committee with Accelerator Committee and iHubs Committee

Define what should be the priority

• Start with the projects and initiatives related with FIWARE i.e. members of the Foundation

Mundus Committee

3.2 Medium term and long-term objectives

The FIWARE Mundus Committee is at present outlining their priorities and goals.

We can however anticipate the topics that are under discussion and that will most

likely define the longer-term roadmap of FIWARE Mundus.

• Vertical Coverage: re-evaluation and extension of the themes that we

address once we have gained insights after interacting with the players of

this ecosystem, prominently international contacts who are approaching and

working with us already.

• Geographic Coverage: after a first stage of very intense contacts all over

the globe, the experience gained in different geographic areas will tell us

whether it is worth making more intense effort in some areas and if it is

advisable to down-prioritise others.

• Dissemination coverage: the target events for 2017 are already

identified. We will configure our roadmap of events in 2018 based on our

experience in 2017 and also in the light of the decisions adopted in the



previous bullet points (vertical coverage and geographic coverage, that will

determine to a large extent what events are relevant for us). Dedicated

FIWARE events will take up a significant part of our resources.

• Liaison with Public Authorities: one of the lessons learned is the key role

played by the governmental bodies in the expansion of FIWARE. This is true

in general but particularly noticeable in the case of the emerging countries.

Local and national authorities put us in contact with local stakeholders,

provide insights in the regional priorities applicable for each part of the

world and ultimately support our activities with political actions or even with

economic resources at a local level.

• Expansion of the FIWARE Foundation: attract worldwide actors to join

the FIWARE Foundation and our ecosystem.

3.3 Current status

This is a snapshot the status of Activities and Events as of May 2017 as reported by

the FIWARE Mundus Chair at the FIWARE Summit in Utrecht. Part of the actions are

ongoing and some others are under discussion.

Figure 9 Activities and Events in North America (May 2017)



Table 2 FIWARE Mundus in North America

Recent events and activities Upcoming events On-going activities

• FIWARE instance set up at NIST premises, and tested successfully with two applications

• GCTC Transportation SuperCluster Workshop,

Portland, OR • GCTC Smart City Platform

Workshop, Kansas City, MO • GCTC Energy SuperCluster

Workshop, Atlanta, GA • FIWARE Edmonton Workshop,

5-6 June 2017, Edmonton,

Canada

• GCTC Expo 2017, 28-29 August 2017, Washington D.C., USA

• Possible joint workshop with the DISCOVERY project in Toronto,

Canada (date tbc)

• FIWARE Lab Node being set up at ETS in Montreal, Quebec

• Possible FIWARE Lab Node or instance set up at the Edmonton Research Park

• Discussion on pilot trial in

smart agrifood in Ontario, including but not limited to the

set-up of a FIWARE instance; meetings planned in June; cooperation with IoF2020 helped trigger this pilot

• Discussion on possible pilot

trials with US cities, within GCTC and beyond

• Discussion on possible involvement of Mexican stakeholders

Figure 10 Activities and Events in South America (May 2017)

Table 3 FIWARE Mundus in South America


• FIWARE Training and Hackathon at CUDI Spring

meeting, 29-30 May, 2017 in Puerto Vallarta, Jal, Mexico

• Discussion on possible pilot trials between LatAm and

Europe with focus on smart cities or smart agrifood.



Figure 11 Activities and Events in Africa (May 2017)

Table 4 FIWARE Mundus in Africa


• FIWARE booth at Smart City Expo World Congress Casablanca, MoU signed between the FIWARE

Foundation and Maroc Numerique Cluster in Morocco

• Participation in the Seedstars World Event, Lausanne

• Participation to the OPAL project workshop in Dakar

• Launch Event of the Dakar Node and ecosystem (date tbc, in September or October)

• Set-up of a FIWARE instance in Dakar, Senegal

• Set-up of a pilot trial in Senegal in cooperation with

the WaZiup project

• Set-up of an accelerator in Senegal using European development funds

• Discussion on a possible set-up

of a FIWARE instance in Casablanca hosted by Orange

Morocco



Figure 12 Activities and Events in Asia (May 2017)

Table 5 FIWARE Mundus in Asia


• Participation to the APAN 44 conference in New Delhi (February 2017)

• Participation to the

ICEGOV2017 Conference in New Delhi (March 2017)

• APAN in Dalian (August 2017)

• Experimentation around a FIWARE instance in Hengqin, China

• Setup of a FIWARE ecosystem

aiming at answering to the Indian cities calls in the context of the Digital India smart city program

• Some initial contacts with Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines which are

progressing slowly.



Table 6 International Pilot Trials under investigation

Region Target Vertical(s)

Status

USA Smart Cities • “Challenge for FIWARE pilot trials” to be launched at GCTC

Expo 2017

• Objective: use FIWARE and Powered by FIWARE solutions in US cities, replicate solutions already deployed in Europe

Canada Smart Agri • The Ontario Precision Agri Food association has decided to

use FIWARE for a pilot trial in Ontario, eventually leading to

a commercial deployment –a FIWARE instance is planned to be set up

• Involvement of a couple of Powered by FIWARE solutions are under discussion

Chile/LatAm Smart Agri

Smart Cities

• Discussions are going on with the R&D center of Telefonica in Chile to launch a pilot trial between a LatAm country other

than Chile and a European country

China Smart Cities • Ongoing discussions to experiment Powered by FIWARE solutions in Hengqin, China. European FIWARE startups invited to install their apps on the node

Senegal Smart Agri

Smart Cities

• Together with Waziup project, 5 trials will take place, FI-GLOBAL will provide the FIWARE platform (Sonatel) and the LoRa devices, Waziup will ensure the overall integration. 3 use cases have been described (Aquaculture, animal tracking and soil analysis)

• In cooperation with the UCAD university which will collect data from the Dakar city through a specific student project,

the FIWARE accelerator will open calls for smart city applications.

Morocco Smart Cities • The eMedina initiative supported by the Ministry of Industry is willing to use FIWARE to develop Smart city pilots using

the FIWARE platform hosted by Orange Morocco.



4 MATCHING ICT PRIORITIES IN MEXICO WITH FIWARE MUNDUS ROAMAP

In the first nine months of its activity, FIWARE Mexico has initiated a challenging

work assessing the potential of the FIWARE technology and the creation of a

FIWARE-centred ecosystem within the Mexican environment. The work,

strengthened by the presence of the FIWARE Lab node in Mexico and by the close

collaboration with the SmartSDK project [6], has already identified some specific

areas of interest in the cooperation with FIWARE Mundus Roadmap. At the same

time, especially considering the diversity of the boundary conditions in the various

countries FIWARE Mundus is actively engaged, it is difficult to draw parallelisms. In

this respect, closer collaboration with the FIWARE Mundus players will be fostered

in the months to come.

One of the most important findings is that FIWARE awareness is still

extremely limited – despite the presence of the FIWARE Lab node in Mexico since

2014 and the initial activities of both FIWARE Mexico and SmartSDK. As a matter of

fact, only 15% of the survey’s respondents know about FIWARE. This indicates that

the work to be done is quite substantial, but that indeed this gives the opportunity

to develop a larger and stronger community thanks to the work FIWARE Mexico is

conducting.

This indicates a first area of synergies and cooperation with the FIWARE

Mundus initiative that relates to the set of planned activities to increase

the awareness of FIWARE in Mexico. As a matter of fact, the involvement of

players active at the international level can help increasing confidence and learn

from similar cases of adoption of FIWARE in the rest of the world and more

specifically, there are three matching directions to be followed:

• FIWARE Mexico will highly benefit by the FIWARE Mundus plan to translate

key communication materials in Spanish. The experience in the first 9

months of the project taught us that both the survey and the FIWARE

events (Training, Open Camp, workshops) benefitted being run in Spanish

rather than in English, allowing more interaction and participation.

• An international FIWARE event organised in close collaboration with the

FIWARE Mundus committee to be held in Mexico in 2018. This would

provide a unique opportunity to involve a wide Mexican audience.

• Selected representative stakeholders that are currently not involved in the

FIWARE initiatives, but expressed interest in FIWARE in relation to relevant

innovation activities, to be invited to attend the next FIWARE Summit in

Europe (November 2017) to develop stronger ties and open up realistic and

actionable projects plans.

In line with the FIWARE Mundus focus on North-America, interaction with

the US/Canadian ecosystems could help boosting FIWARE in Mexico. The

Mexican ICT market has indeed already benefitted by proximity to the United States

that has supported and encouraged a so-called near-shoring phenomenon, a

process through which large international corporations locate parts of their

manufacturing or services activities in Mexico, taking advantage of competitive

labour costs, good logistics and other benefits. At the same time, through this

phenomenon, Mexican ICT players became better visible at an international level.

In addition, several local Mexican Government initiatives have been promoted to

boost the opportunities of collaboration in the ICT field between Mexico and the

Silicon Valley, facilitated by the same time zone and excellent air connections. We

think FIWARE should piggy back on this trend and leverage on the FIWARE Mundus



activities in US to involve Mexican players. To this end we see two activities which

should be pursued in the future:

• The involvement of Mexican stakeholders in the envisaged cities pilot

testing in the US could be an interesting opportunity to be explored.

Nevertheless, the proper Mexican stakeholders should be engaged. As the

survey results suggest, key priority topics in Mexico fall under the smart

cities domain, e.g. Real time information technology, big data, IoT, smart

citizen-centred energy system, intelligent transport system and cloud

computing. These specific technologies, are of direct relevance to smart

cities services development.

• Inviting Mexican stakeholders to FIWARE Mundus conferences in the US and

vice versa to create increased awareness about the FIWARE technology

potential while fostering for durable synergies and collaborations on a

global level.

For what concerns the FIWARE Mundus Chile/LATAM focus on Smart Cities

and Agriculture, the survey run in Mexico shows that topics related to

Smart Cities are top priorities for the local stakeholders. As above, the

advice is to further investigate the potential interest in Mexico for the Smart Cities

vertical, exposing the opportunity to a selected focus target public authorities and

private sector.

The identified topics relevant to the Mexican players: Big Data, IoT, Renewable

Energy technologies enablers and Smart-citizen centred Energy efficiency are at the

core of the Smart cities vertical and could be the focus of the cooperation between

FIWARE Mexico and FIWARE Mundus initiative in other LATAM countries.

On the other hand, closer interaction with the FIWARE Mundus initiative is needed

to ensure closer synergies can help developing a number of activities, such us

events, media promotion, training, experts’ involvement, presentations, which will

contribute to the growth of the FIWARE Mexico ecosystem. This is being pursued

actively also thanks to close collaboration with the FIWARE Foundation and the

FIWARE Press Office through active engagement of several FIWARE Mexico partners

in Europe.



5 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS

The FIWARE Mexico project addresses the challenge of enhancing FIWARE-driven



technologies, concepts and community reach as established by FIWARE in Europe

and internationally.

In this respect, work package 3, WP3 Priority setting & follow-up for cooperation in

ICT and FIWARE is elaborating on how the promotion of FIWARE can act as a

catalyser to strengthen and grow the EU-MEX collaboration in the ICT domain.

This document, which is an interim version of the planned report to be delivered at

M14 (i.e., end of October 2017), provides a first matching of the ICT priorities in

Mexico in relation to the FIWARE Mundus roadmap and overall FIWARE Mexico

planned work.

Although the initial findings provide a good initial overview of the ICT priorities in

Mexico, further investigation will continue through in-depth interviews with selected

stakeholders and thought leaders in Europe and Mexico to refine the analysis and

provide more in-depth indications about how the ICT priorities in Mexico match into

the FIWARE roadmap.

Also, closer interaction with the FIWARE Mundus community is needed to ensure

closer synergies to help growing the FIWARE Mexico ecosystem and foster for

synergies within the broader ICT context. This is being actively pursued especially

in view of organising coordinated engagement activities on a global level.



6 REFERENCES

[1] 1st EU-Mexico dialogue on Digital economy, 19th May 2017, Brussels-

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/blog/1st-eu-mexico-dialogue-

digital-economy-19th-may-2017-brussels

[2] Deliverable D3.1 Update on ICT Priorities in Mexico for ICT R&I cooperation

with EU interim version. June 2017

[3] FIWARE Mundus - https://www.fiware.org/mundus/

[4] Deliverable D4.2 FIWARE Good practices and critical success factors to the

Mexican innovation ecosystem. July 2017

[5] FIWARE Foundation - https://www.fiware.org/foundation/

[6] SmartSDK project - https://www.smartsdk.eu/

https://www.fiware.org/foundation/

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