21. Core IEEE Smart Cities
• Involve city governance, IEEE volunteers,
universities and support from entrepreneurs
• Focus on 3 to 6 priority areas
• Produce knowledge
• Sub-continental pole
A collaborative city network involving
every city stakeholders
Affiliated IEEE Smart Cities
• Same ecosystem as core cities
• Drive a selection of actions
• Future core cities to be selected within the
most dynamic affiliated cities
Expert network
• Technology expertise
• Systemic development
• Architecture, urbanism
• Social and human sciences
Affinity Groups
• When cities are neither core nor affiliated
• When there is a group of IEEE volunteers and
other actors that want to work on Smart Cities
22. Deliverables
Deliverables and Objectives
Content
§ Working groups
§ Papers, articles, publications
§ Interviews, videos, Q&A
§ Smart Cities Commons (e.g. reference use cases,
methodology, standards)
Partnership
§ Develop audience and collaborative network
§ Engage on social networks
§ Give visibility to cities and experts
§ With other Smart Cities organisations
Conferences and events
§ Conferences, exhibitions, workshops
§ Virtual conferences
§ Webinars, Live chats
Education
§ MOOCs
§ E-learning, Webinars
§ Summer Schools
Real Cases
§ Scenarios & Use Cases
§ Develop methodology & standards
§ Consultancy
25. • One pain to kill, ask WHY, before HOW and WHAT
• Start with dense community of users, even if very local,
then scaleup
• Give value (services, visibility, business opportunities),
improve and increase commons before expecting
results back
• Be scalable, provide tools and identity that will be
reused by the members of your community
• Be financially sustainable
☑ Know what’s the pain to kill, start with the WHY
☑ Start with local but dense community of users, then
scale up
☑ Give value, increase commons to get results back
☑ Provide a toolbox and a strong identity
☑ Be scalable
☑ Be financially sustainable
Similarities between building a
community and building a startup