Smart Citizens in Smart CitiesManchester City Region: creating Next Generation Digital Cities

Dave Carter , Head, MDDA -Manchester Digital Development Agency,Manchester City Council.

Unlimited Bandwidth, Zero LatencyLiving Labs, Open Innovation & Creativity

• transformational digital infrastructures (open access)• Next Generation Access (NGA) - beyond just ‘speed’• Future Internet and virtualisation, cloud based networks• Web centric systems meet networked objects and data

• stimulating creativity and innovation (open content)• building, operating and developing networks• creating new marketplaces• new trade = new jobs = new skills

• generating social capital (open engagement)• user generated services• digital inclusion and co-operation

• enabling new business models (sustainability)• social networks to social enterprises • service efficiencies: doing better for less• “Free Trade Fibre” – new collaborative marketplaces

NGA = Fibre All The Way.............• Digital infrastructure: 21st century ‘real estate’ • Living Lab Corridor Digitisation Project:

• test-bed: 500 businesses, 1000 residents over next two years• open access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network + wireless• create new value chains: B2C, C2B, C2C, plus supply chains: B2B• co-production of new services: smart energy, smart health, smart living• Low Carbon Data Network: micro-sensors, wireless, fibre + open data• new infrastructures for the Future Internet: hosting, exchanges, networks

• Reuse of key public assets• Metrolink tram network, new bus lanes, traffic signal networks• potential development of public service networks (PSN)• public sector assets, e.g. new public realm, factored in and mapped

• New mutual co-ownership approaches• multi-stakeholder co-ownership of assets and new services• resilient and trusted networks run by and for communities• Digital Inclusion Partnerships: housing, health, education, voluntary &

community sector, social entrepreneurs, digital and creative businesses, arts and cultural industries = Big Society……..

Manchester Living LabPrincipals:

• co-creation: building on Open Data• co-ownership: mutualising commitment• co-production: generating new services

- recognising people as assets- valuing work differently- promoting reciprocity- building social networks

Practice:

• user driven open innovation • replicable and scalable models• entrepreneurs as co-stakeholders• sustaining user engagement

One Central Park

sharp project

Sport City

ManchesterCollege

Corridor

test-bedInternet

Exchange

Central Salford

100 gigabit+++DARK FIBRE LOOP

CITYCENTRE

ConnectivityPowerSpace

ConnectivityPowerSpace

Digital Inclusion+Living Lab+Open Access+Co-ownership

Media City

Connectivity via Metrolink

Connectivity via Metrolink

MCR NGA deployment

Peering with JANET

‘Geek’ Power! Entrepreneurs + Innovation • Talent• Technology• Tolerance+ Developer Communities=• Creativity• Innovation• Diversityand• new ideas• new business• new skills• new jobs

Future Internet Smart Cities• The ‘Future’ will be OPEN…..• Users generating services as well as content• Green Digital Agenda: greener, smarter ICT and uses• Public Private People Partnerships (PPPPs)• Open Data + Open Access + Open Source• Social Capital: capacity building at all levels• Localism, community engagement + social networking:

• City Nets + Rural Nets + Regional Nets + Global Nets

• Future Internet: Terabit Ethernet and beyond• Bringing together the grass roots, geeks, entrepreneurial talent, Future Internet research, novel investment and co-ownership• ‘Free Trade Fibre’ – Future Internet marketplaces

Thank You!d.carter@manchesterdda.comwww.manchesterdda.com

www.openlivinglabs.eu