Do you want to create smart city projects? In our cookbook you will find recipes, handy ingredient lists, and tips & tricks to produce the finest smart city projects. Our real-life examples showcase the flexibility of the smart city project.

Ecosystem

Making your city smart requires the involvement of various stakeholders. In other words, you have to develop and maintain your own network/ecosystem and/or join an already existing one. And that is what this segment is all about.

Challenges & Business cases

Here you learn how to explore your city’s needs and write a challenge based upon them. You will also learn what to focus on when selecting a solution, the importance of milestones in contracts, etc.

Open Data & Interoperability

Here you will learn about six key ways in which opening up your data adds value to it. We also answer three questions regarding interoperability. Why do it all? How do you facilitate it? And does SCIFI have a fitting example?

Innovative Procurement

Here we delve deeper into three out of the six steps proposed in the “Challenges & Business Cases” chapter.We also answer the question: When is the procurement of a solution considered to be innovative?

Execution

This segment provides an overview of the different steps you have to go through to launch a smart pilot. Our recipe consists of 15 steps, and we provide you with examples, further readings, links to webinars, and other resources.

Long Term

Successfully making one tasty dish does not make you a chef. But it might give you the courage to take on a full menu. With that in mind, it is time to look to the future. What do you do after a successful pilot?

What is SCIFI?

SCIFI stands for: “Smart Cities Innovation Framework Implementation”. These words sum up this project’s goal of providing recommendations on how to approach a smart city project.

Four medium-sized cities lie at the heart of this project: Bruges (BE), Delft (NL), Mechelen (BE), and Saint-Quentin (FR). And just as their larger counterparts, these cities also face pollution, growing populations, mobility, etc.

The SCIFI-cities recognised that becoming “smarter” was the way of the future. But there was not yet a reliable methodology to become a smart city. As such, we partnered up to become smart cities and recorded our process.

Why a Cookbook?

As we believe that other cities face similar challenges, we want to share our learnings. We chose to present the results of this project in the form of a cookbook because our approach has a lot in common with a recipe.

In both cases, you first decide what you want to achieve, you then collect the required ingredients, you process those, and then you try it. It is through this process that you learn where adjustments need to be made, but also how to make the recipe your own.

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