Blockchain supporting Smart City by Blaž Golob

1. BLOCKCHAIN SUPPORTING SMART CITIES DEVELOPMENT
BLAŽ GOLOB
GFS Institute

2. Agenda
2020 challenging year – lessons
learned
Smart City evolution – towards
Smart City 3.0
Blockchain beyond FinTech
applications
European cities & blockchain in
the following years

3. CITY
CHALLENGES
Different understanding of smart, digital, intelligent ?
Complexity of issues (Climate change / SDGs / citizens
engagement) are managed by silos city departments
governance system?
Where to start? What is the ambition of city?
The role of stakeholders and city eco-system
Citizens without influence / cities without funds

4. What is a
Smart City?
It is a complex and heterogeneous
concept
It involves the use of ICT-based
innovation in the urban space to
improve quality of life
Is a process of transformation , not
a target
And…

5. It is a
New Way of
governing
using Technologies to:
the public administration capacity in the
provision of public services,Increase
citizens’ quality of life by offering better living
conditionsImprove
democracy by involving citizens in the
governmentPromote
city attractiveness and development of local
green economyDevelop

6. THE EVOLUTION OF E-GOVERNMENT
Gov 1.0
e-Government
• Government that
works well
• Process
Innovation
• IT Systems
Gov 2.0
Platform Govt.
• Open government
to people
• Governance
Innovation
• Web & Apps
Gov 3.0
Smart Govt.
• Evidence-based
decision making
• Policy
Innovation
• Data
Concept
Goal
Resource
Source: Government 3.0: Ideas and solutions for next-generation Governance
Yannis Charalabidis - University of Aegean

7. Smart City 1.0
Cambridge – UK
Kalmar - Sweden
• Deployment of Quamtra Sensors, to measure the
level of waste inside collection containers
Solution
• Optimize truck collection routes
• Reduce truck stops
• lower petrol consumption, reduced carbon emission
and more efficient use of all involved resources.
Benefits:

8. Smart City 2.0
Utrera – Spain
•Integrated Smart City Platform
Solution:
•Implementation of a Big Data IoT Platform.
•Open & Single Dashboard for:
•Transportation,
•Security,
•Cleaning and Maintenance
•Health,
•Parking.
.
Benefits:

9. Smart City 3.0
Seville – Spain
Artificial Intelligence
Rule Base Autonomous Decisions

10. Seville
Integrated City Lighting,
Security & Governance

11. City Brain - Dashboard
Visualize Alarms, devices, assets, resources
Real time KPI’s
Advanced Visualization (Heat Maps, 3D…)
Surveillance by artificial intelligence
Collection, Parking, Lighting, water

12. The
Framework

13. The Book
Technology
Trends
Metrics &
KPI
Why Projects
fail?
Cases
Taxonomy And more

14. Blockchain beyond
FinTech applications
EU Parliament Res. on DLT & Blockchains: building trust with
disintermediation (2018) / Eva Kaili
1. Energy & Environment friendly app. 2. Transport
3. Healthcare sector 4. Supply chains 5. Education 6. Creative
industries & copyright 7. Financial sector / cryptocurrencies
DLT for public infrastructure: enforcement of eGoverment
Action Plan enforcing EU wide adoption of ONCE ONLY
PRINCIPLE reducing administration burden

15. Learning from Digital Cities Challenge cities I.
Creat
e
winni
ng
city
team
&
identi
fy city
stake
holde
rs &
involv
e
citizen
s
II.
Defin
e
digital
-
intelli
gent
vision
&
ambiti
on of
city
III.
Co-
create
Strate
gy
IV.
Defin
e
road
map
of
projec
ts
V.
Monit
or
(KPIs
& KHI)
&
Evalua
te &
Upgra
de
intelli
gence
Smart
ness
???
Never
enoug
h ???

16. Good practice cases
cities
I. Estonian eHealth System
II. Kenya Refugee camp Digital ID
III. Vienna Smart City energy grid
IV. Swedish land registry
V. Moscow elections using blockchain (three
electoral districts)
Picture source: Smart-Energy 2020
cities

17. Learning from Digital Cities Challenge
cities
I. Create winning city team & identify city
stakeholders & involve citizens
II. Define digital-intelligent vision & ambition of
city
III. Co-create Strategy
IV. Define roadmap of projects
V. Monitor (KPIs & KHI) & Evaluate & Upgrade
intelligence
Smartness ??? Never enough ???

18. CITIES PRIORITY AREAS
Source: Intelligent Cities Challenge 2020
eGovernment & Digitasing Public Services 23
Smart & Green mobility and transport 7
Scaling up renewable energy solutions and energy - efficinecy 7
Smart & Sustainable tourism 5
Promoting helath & Wellbeing of citizens 5
Transforming industry, green manufacturing and clean production 5
Transforming and greening construction, housing and urban manageme. 4
Growing start-ups, SMEs and social economy 4
Innovative education and training for up-and re-skilling 3
Waste management & Circular Economy 3
Climate resilience & Disaster management 2
Enhancing citizens participation, connectivity and community 2
Sustainable use and management of natural resources 2
Total number of cities and city consortiums 72

19. NEXT STEPS
• INTELIGENT CITIES CHALLENGE
www.intelligentcitieschallenge.eu
• LJUBLJANA FORUM ON CITY of THE FUTURE
10th Anniversary 7-8 October 2021 / EU
Presidency
www.ljubljanaforum.org
GFS INSTITUTE / www.gfs4.eu
blaz@gfs4.eu