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FIWARE on a global scale
BUILDING A FIWARE ECOSYSTEM IN NON-EU REGIONS
Yasunori Mochizuki
NEC Corporation
FIWARE Global Summit Porto
May 8th, 2018

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NEC Joined FIWARE Foundation in 3/2017
(2011 )
▌ NEC’s EU teams, both on R&D and business, had been working with FIWARE for years
2017
▌ NEC became Platinum Member of FF:
--- the first non-EU-originated and non-founding company
Because……
▌ IoT-based Smart City business opportunity growing in Japan
And NEC also finding that
▌ FIWARE is exactly what Japan also needs as Japan aims to move toward “Society5.0”
▌ FIWARE has a serious ambition of going global (non-EU)

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JAPAN’s Three Major Policies toward Data Economy
Cabinet Office
Society 5.0
~ Data-driven Super Smart Society (1)
(Japan’s Top-level Policy)
Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications
(MIC)
Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry
(METI)
Data-leveraged type
Smart City (3)
FIWARE explicitly
highlighted !
Connected
Industries
(2)
(Source) (1), (3) from MIC presentation at DTA & IEEE-SA Seminar on March 5th, 2018, Tokyo
(2): http://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2017/pdf/1002_004a.pdf

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FIWARE-Related Achievements in Japan for 2017/2018
▌Smart City
●Open APIs (NGSI) recommendations in legislation and ministries’ guidelines: 4
●FIWARE adoption by smart city projects: 2 (out of 6)
• under MIC call, “Data-leveraged type smart cities”, 1 more awardee planning to adopt
• contacts coming also from many more cities besides the call awardees
●FIWARE Lab like regional testbed launched: 2
• 1 more in preparation
●IT vendor consortium for FIWARE-based data exchange platform under preparation
▌Smart Industry
●Data Trading Alliance, for data exchange business, established in 11/2017
• goal quite similar to IDSA
• members from a broad range of industrial sectors
• NEC is a founding and BoD member

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NEC’s Contribution to FIWARE on a Global Scale, 2017/2018
▌Japan: (summarized in preceding slide)
▌Asia: initial focus in India
●FIWARE-based smart city solution capability building in India
●FIWARE Lab node contribution to India (launched on April 26, 2018)
●Early promotion activities: Singapore, Vietnam
▌Europe: continuing and intensifying
●FIWARE solutions and GEs : CCOC, FogFlow
●Standardization activity leadership: ETSI ISG CIM, ETSI ISG CDP, ITU-T, oneM2M, etc
●Smart Industry Committee leadership
●Participating in major EU calls: SynchroniCity, CPaaS.io
●Expanding partner cities in the business phase

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FIWARE in Japanese Smart Cities
UK
• Bristol
• Greenwich
Spain
• Santander
• Murcia
Portugal
• Lisbon
New Zealand
• Wellington
• Christchurch
Japan
• Takamatsu
- disaster management
- tourism
• Kakogawa
- public safety
• Kawasaki
- waste collection
• Fukuoka
- data interchange
waste collection
traffic pedestrian air quality
2014
2014
2017
( NEC’s partner cities, based on public domain information)

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Fukuoka City, Re-Developing Area for a Startup Hub
https://growth-next.com/en/
Daimyo Elementary School closed its doors in March 2014.
It has been REBORN as Fukuoka Growth Next, sporting a new name and mission.
Fukuoka Growth Next is a startup support facility leveraging public-private
collaboration. It serves as a launchpad for startup companies in Fukuoka City, an up-
and-coming destination for global entrepreneurs

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FIWARE-Based Testbed by NEC and Sakura Internet
FIWARE-based data exchange system toward smart cities and smart
buildings launched in Fukuoka Growth Next
Web Page for the testbedTechnical Guidance of FIWARE, 16/03/2018
………. “They will further work together to extract the stakeholders’
requirements for data exchange as well as their issues and also to accumulate
technical knowledge for operation and maintenance of the system.”

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Scope of the Testbed in Fukuoka Growth Next
Needs extraction for data exchange/trading
What kind of usage for a certain kind of data?
Any unexpected sense-of-wonder emerging?

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Data Trading Alliance (DTA) in Japan
In order to accelerate Japan’s transformation toward Society 5.0, data-driven super smart society,
DTA is established by private sector to jointly prepare technology standards as well as systems &
rules so that data can be shared and utilized across industries in secure and smooth manner.
Organization Structure (Established on Nov. 1, 2017)
● BoD
President: Jun Murai (Keio Univ.)
External Directors: Noboru Tsukagoshi (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Ryosuke Shibasaki (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Ichiya Nakamura (Keio Univ)
Internal Directors: INTAGE, DNP, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Uhuru,
OMRON, Every Sense, JDX,
Sakura Internet, NEC
● Committees
● Operators Certification Program Committee
● Technology Standards Committee
● Data Utilization Committee (use case & marketing)
● Certification and Audit Committee (planned)
● DTA Member (as of April 10, 2018)
● Full Members: 51 orgs
● Support Members: 26 orgs
● Liaison Members: 14 orgs and 3 individuals
ICT
Manufacturing
Other industries
Finance & Insurance
Services
Academia
Utilities
Public services
Construction
Logistics & delivery
Retail
Real estate & rental services
DTA members (by industries)

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DTA Preparing for Global Harmonization
▌ DTA is going to collaborate with major activities in vocabulary, data model, APIs and data quality for global
harmonization in data sharing and exchange
▌ As the 1st step, DTA started a program to investigate major activities
(Source) Technology Standards Committee presentation at DTA Forum on March 27th, 2018, Tokyo

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FIWARE Lab node in India Built for Open Innovation
Launch event held on April 26, with invited partners

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Digital Transformation Ecosystem around FIWARE in Europe
Established toward FIWARE adoption
Cities
Standardization
Bodies, etc
Smart City
Consortia
Municipalities Developers/Vendors
ADOPTION
REFERENCE
ARCHI-
TECTURE
PRACTICE
SHARE
ADVANCED API
SPECIFICATIONS
CITY KPI’s
USE CASES
ICT companies
Start ups
REGIONAL INNOVATION
TECHNOLOGY
CONTRIBUTION
PARTNERING
ACCELERATION
SUPPORT
ADOPTION

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FIWARE’s Ecosystem Building Journey in Japan
SL buyer
( & FI buyer)
SL seller
(& FI buyer)
Buyer’s mentor
(& FI Buyer)
Seller’s mentor Rule maker
Europe
Japan
Cities
(110+)
Startups, SMEs
(1000+)
OASC, TM Forum,
GSMA, IDSA,
ETSI, ITU-T,
oneM2M
Regional facilitators
FIWARE
Accelerator,
FIWARE iHub
EC, Gov’s
(call portfolio, CEF)
■ FIWARE’s visibility established for smart cities
■ Abundant and connected ecosystem
■ Scope shared well (Data driven, Digital transformation)
■ FIWARE’s value proposition works well also for Japanese Gov & Cities
■ FIWARE’s visibility very low for developers (i.e. direct FIWARE buyers)
■ Challenges: Scoping toward digital transformation, Financial basis
FIWARE visible
but regional
innovation
ecosystem
yet to be
strengthened
Policies supportive
but funding
small/fragmented
Japanese bodies?
Global bodies?
FIWARE’s
visibility low
weak

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Status Summary
▌FIWARE penetration in Japan ongoing for Smart City and also for Smart
Industry and its first year achievement looks satisfactory
▌Nevertheless, even with NEC’s rich networking capability (and visibility) in
Japan, FIWARE ecosystem building is seeing challenges.
●Very slow development of FIWARE visibility to regional startups/SMEs as app developers
●Inter-city consortia do exist but mentoring toward digital transformation/disruption stays weak
★ Expectation to FIWARE Europe toward globalization:
Leading best practices, Flagship city references
(transformation outcomes, financial sustainability, etc)

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NEC’s Commitment toward Globalization of FIWARE
▌NEC will continue to work on expanding and strengthening FIWARE
ecosystem in Japan for Smart City and Smart Industry with multilateral
strategy and effort
▌NEC is putting a focus also in India. In addition to existing FIWARE
community member’s efforts, NEC will make increased investment in
FIWARE community activities to strengthen FIWARE ecosystem in India
▌For FIWARE in Europe, NEC EU teams are committed to continue
collaborating with the European stakeholders
● Technology development
● Standardization
● Business deployment

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Special Thanks to
FIWARE Foundation Board of Officers
FIWARE Foundation Board of Director members
FIWARE Mundus members
… for their big support and collaborations

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