Barcelona digital city Putting technology at the service of people BARCELONA DIGITAL CITY PLAN (2015-2019) 1. Beyond the smart city: The People's Roadmap towards Technological Sovereignty 3 2. Barcelona Digital City Plan in figures 6 3. A multitude of projects for everyone 11 3.1. Digital transformation 14 Open, collaborative and transparent government 15 • Free & open-source software: FLOSS Barcelona 16 • Open budget 17 • Transparency Mailbox 18 • Progressive web apps 19 Democratising Urban technology 20 • City OS 21 • Sentilo 22 • Bicing 23 • Superblocks 24 • KIC Urban Mobility 25 A new social pact on data: BCN Data Commons 26 • Municipal Data Office 27 • Municipal Management Dashboard 28 • Big data for public policies 29 • Open Data BCN 30 • Blockchain for data sovereignty: DECODE 31 3.2. Digital innovation 32 Digital economy and the innovation ecosystem 33 • Growing the city's innovation ecosystem 34 • 5G Barcelona 35 • MediaTIC Incubator 36 Make in BCN: innovation for the common good 37 • Digital social innovation in Barcelona 38 • Digital social innovation fund 39 • Maker Faire Barcelona 40 Barcelona as laboratory for urban innovation 41 • i.lab & Ca l’Alier 42 • i.lab challenges 43 • Innovative public procurement 44 3.3. Digital empowerment 45 Collective intelligence for democracy and digital rights 46 • Decidim Barcelona 47 • Cities Coalition for Digital Rights 48 Digital skills education and training 49 • Cibernàrium 50 • STEAM Bcn 51 • Fab Labs 52 Digital inclusion 53 • Barcelona Declaration for digital social inclusion 54 • Empowering Women in tech 55 · REC: Barcelona's digital social currency 56 Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) Table of contents 1. BEYOND THE SMART CITY: THE PEOPLE'S ROADMAP TOWARDS TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 3 Francesca Bria Barcelona City Council Commissioner for Digital Technology and Innovation “The digital revolution must serve the many and not just the few” The creation of the Office for Technology and cent of the proposals come directly from ci- Digital Innovation by the Barcelona City Council tizens. Those proposals highlighted what Bar- arises from its strong belief in the importance celona’s citizens care about and thus became of data and technology for transforming the the priorities for the government’s Roadmap: city, from delivering better and more afforda- issues such as access to affordable housing, ble public services to making the municipal go- climate change, energy transition and sustai- vernment more open, agile and participatory. nability lie at its core. Barcelona wants to set the world’s standards in ethical, open, and responsible innovation, moving towards technological sovereignty. The Barcelona Digital Plan, co-created Our Digital Gov Plan outlines new direc- with the city’s innovation ecosystem for re- tives that put citizens first; establish the use of thinking the smart city, aims to transcend its agile methods for ICT projects and advocate for merely technological objectives, to rethink a technological sovereignty. Such measures insist smart city that serve its citizens. At the core on re-establishing control over data and infor- of the Barcelona’s model there is a large scale mation generated by digital technologies as participatory experiment powered by a digital well as promoting public digital infrastructures participatory platform, Decidim that taps into based on free and open source software, open the collective intelligence of citizens to create standards and adopting privacy-enhancing and policies that better respond to their needs. It rights-preserving technologies that protects is built with free software and guarantees per- citizen's information-self-determination. sonal privacy and public transparency in a way The Plan also includes an ethical data commercial platforms don’t. We used Decidim strategy, which recognizes data sovereign- to create the government agenda over 70 per ty, privacy, encryption, collective rights to Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 4 data and other fundamental citizens’ rights as robotization, and democratise production in its core values. We believe that city data is a the 4th industrial revolution with the goal of common good and a public infrastructure like supporting more circular, inclusive, and co- water, electricity, roads, and clean air. Data llaborative economic models. This is what we should be openly accessible, helping the local are doing by creating an urban innovation lab, tech companies and local production networks and supporting makers’ communities, the Fab We want to move from a model of surveillance capitalism, where data is opaque and not transparent, to a model where citizens themselves can own and control the data. to build future data-driven and AI fuelled ser- City movement, and a real sharing economy. vices and solutions that can create public value This includes making public procurement more and social return. transparent, and sustainable through an open That’s why we are promoting practical digital marketplace that facilitates the partici- alternatives, such as the DECODE project, an pation of local startups and small and medium open source, decentralised, privacy-aware and companies. rights-respecting data platform based on the Cities of course cannot do this big trans- blockchain that give back to citizens greater formation alone. Everything we develop is open control and power over their data, and enable source, and all the code is posted on Github, them to decide what kind of data they want so that our ideas and practices can spread. to keep private, what data they want to share, Barcelona’s digital policies are based on a free with whom, on what basis. This is a New Deal on software platform so they can be shared, reu- data, which does not exploit personal data to sed and adapted by other cities. That is why, together with NYC and Amsterdam we laun- ched the City Coalition for Digital Rights, to make sure we bake rule of law, human rights and democracy into the de- velopment of future technology and artificial intelligence. pay for critical infrastructure. In this way, the This will lay the foundations for a people immense economic value that such data repre- centric digital future. Our broader goal - hun- sents should be returned back to citizens. derpinned by our strong belief in democratic This is a decisive change that puts people and sovereign cities that enhance rather than first in the design of government services and undermine common good – is to ensure that reinforces their digital rights. the digital revolution is serving the many, not Barcelona aspires to evolve the smart city just the few. Agenda towards becoming a digital sove- reign city – a city which empowers citizens to discuss and articulate their own priorities, set Francesca Bria direction as well as decide upon ethical uses of Chief Technology and technological innovations with clear social im- Digital Innovation Officer pact and public return. This transition process entails revitalising our economy and rethinking the future of work in an age of automation and Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 5 2. BARCELONA DIGITAL CITY PLAN IN FIGURES As Barcelona understands it, technology ought to be at the service of people and not people at the service of technology. Cities have the power to become laboratories for democracy and sustainabi- lity through a smart model of public transport, housing, healthcare and education that uses large amounts of data while preserving privacy and information self-de- termination of individuals, and that is based on solidarity, social cooperation and collective rights. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 6 Work in the ICT sector Women in the ICT sector 1 out of every 54,000 5% 3 are women workers of jobs of responsible 19% positions are 2,800 held by women 3,7% enterprises of the business network 10% The gender wage gap in this This is the sector with sector is below the Barcelona the most STABILITY in vs. average employment contracts 27% Source: The ICT ecosystem from the gender perspective in Barcelona (2018) A cross-cutting plan Number of enterprises, universities, research centres and bodies that + 500 the Barcelona Digital City + 140 Plan interacts with collaborators cities Investments by the Barcelona Digital City Plan €75million Invested annually in the Invested in the €5million Digital Transformation Plan “we boost what you do”, of wich €500,000 Goal: 70% of the budget allocated to digital development is assigned to social digital 70% is free software innovation category projects Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 7 Urban Technology Digital infrastructure 600km of fibre with free, public internet access w +130,000 2,072 users Wi-Fi hotspots 627,095 16 1,003 access points in the main on public buses metro stations Sensorisation infrastructures 15,000 active sensors 3,000,000 daily recordings 40,000 25% water savings connected containers thanks to sensors 36,492 Sentilo traffic lights digitally controlled network of sensors deployed in Barcelona transmitting real-time data. Developed with open-code software, it measures energy, noise, rubbish, weather, parking areas, air quality, water levels and flows of bicycles, people and vehicles 80,000 public parking places (68% of the total) 15,000 active spot lights P Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 8 Sustainable mobility Superblocks Promoting electric vehicles Promoting bicycles 200 km 11 58 bike lanes Spaces closed to traffic and Charging points for electric vehicles A nearly twofold increase since the start distributed in nine districts, 60% of the term of office (from 116 km to of public space for public use 200 km) Barcelona Energia Plan Clima 2018-2030 100% 424 stations public will represent 242 710,000€ 6,000 mechanical bicycles of savings during the year Barcelona City Council’s 100% strategy consists of 242 measures 300 green and against climate change electric bicycles local energy Open Data Datasets in the portal 450 Open Data BCN democratic participation and transparency Decidim Barcelona Transparency mailbox 13,000 40,000 126 proposals voted on participants comunications reporting cases of corruption, since 2017 9,245 230,000 (72%) proposals online accepted interactions Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 9 Digital skills and inclusion programme Cibernàrium Promoting scientific and technological vocations schools offer the 40 STEAM in classrooms programme 200 teachers +39,000 +15,000 and doctoral students involved participants on digital-skills participants in technological acquisition programmes entrepreneurship training 6,000 sessions children taking part Urban, sustainable and local innovation i.lab Digital Social Innovation challenges 6 launched 2,200 30,000 8 entities identified attendees at the needs municipal all arround Europe latest editions of identified 5 areas the Maker Faire affected 4 pilot +750 200 programmes under way participants in entities make up the i.lab sessions the Barcelona Innovation Ca l’Alier Creation factories centres Creation of the Eleven centres for experimenting urban-innovation laboratory with arts, science, technology and culture. InnoBA Public owned Fab Labs MediaTIC Incubator Creation of the social Five spaces for digital Creation of the new high innovation centre manufacturing (two new ones technological impact during this term of office) business incubator 3. A MULTITUDE OF PROJECTS FOR EVERYONE At the Office of the Commissioner for Digital Technology and Innovation we believe that we must go beyond the concept of a smart city to move towards an open, in- novative, inclusive and democratic city, where digital technology help us solving the big global challenges of our time: from climate change to sustainable mobility, energy transition and healthcare. The Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) aims to improve public services, offering high quality services that are better suited to the needs of citizens. This may only be achieved through collective intelligence and citizens’ participation. The Decidim.Barcelona participatory platform is a good example of how we are all together deciding what direction public policies should take. Thousands of people are already configuring the city's political agenda and the City Council's actions are based on these collective demands. Barcelona city's technology and innovation strategy are based on three things: Digital transformation Technology for better government Urban Technology City Data Commons Digital innovation Economia digital Make in BCN i.lab Digital empowerment Education and digital skills acquisition Digital inclusion Democracy and digital rights Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 11 What can cities do to promote the transition to a non-neoliberal smart city? We can summarise the following main public policy actions: —› Establish itself as a global —› Build data-driven models of reference point as a city of the economy, with real inputs commons and collaborative (using real time data analytics) production so that participatory democracy could model complex decisions —› End privatisation and transfer of public assets in private —› Prefer and promote hands, while promoting re- collaborative organisations municipalisation of critical urban over both the centralised state infrastructures and the market solutions (start investing higher percentages of —› Massively reduce the cost public budget in innovative SMEs of basic services like housing, and the cooperative sector) transport, education and health, in order to assist those in the —› Build city data commons: most precarious strata of the decree that the networked data population of the population generated in the context of using public —› Institute a citizens basic services cannot be owned by income focused on targeting services operators proverty and social exclusion Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 12 1 TOP DOWN City planners and corporations use IT infrastructure to optimise SMART CITIES the flows of people and goods and deliver public services more efficiently Barcelona IBM PlanIT’s Urban Has embedded Has designed a Operating System sensors in the city’s centralised intelligent Is marketed as a infrastructure to Operations Centre to way to manage the monitor and manage coordinate and entire urban water use manage all of a city’s landscape services 2CONNECTINC People use open data released by local authorities and compa- TOP AND nies to create services, and local authorities collectdata from BOTTOM citizens to improve their services Smart Citizen kit Changebyus Blindsquare Peerby The Smart Citizen A place for citizens to Uses crowdsourced Promotes collaborati- project uses low cost put ideas into action to information and GPS to ve consumption by sensors and a web make their city a better help blnid people allowing neighbours to platform to enable place to live navigate the city share or rent to share citizens to capture, or rent their posse- share and make sense sions of environmental data about their city 3BOTTOM Citizens generate and share data to improve the way their city UP SMART works, they act collectively and connect with each other to share CITIES resources Fixmystreet Streetbump Betri Reykjavik Allows citizens to map An app that identifies A plataform which local issues from photoles by recording crodwdsources opinions potholes to confusing “bump” data, provin- on city legislation, with signage and bring it to ding the city with the most popular ideas the attention of local real-time data on road debated by the council authorities conditions Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 13 3.1 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION The objective of this plan is to use technology and data to serve the people, improve public services and take better decisions. We aim to achieve a more transparent, participatory and effective governance, and to establish a new social pact on data, so that we can use data to create public value, while preserving citizens’ fundamental rights and their data sove- reignty. This means guaranteeing ethics, security and privacy by design. We also believe that providing access to the internet for all is essential, since connectivity is not a luxury but a right held by all citizens, an absolute necessity for the 21st century economy and society. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 14 OPEN, COLLABORATIVE AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT For over two years, Barcelona has been working of the new software development budget into on its Open Digitalisation Plan, which defines a free and open-source software and services process of major and progressive change in order based on open standards, open formats, open to modernise the city’s administration and offer interfaces and interoperability. better and agile digital services to its citizens. This will lay the foundation for a peo- One of the major outcomes of this has been ple-centred digital future: cities will be able to the creation of Ethical Digital Standards, which access a set of policy tools and standards that include the use of open-source software, open will allow them to develop technologies and plat- standards, data sovereignty, agile development forms based on the rights of city residents, to of digital services and guaranteed privacy, ethics develop long-term social innovation. These prin- and security by design. All with the aim of creating ciples and rules are summarised in the Manifesto a government that is more open, transparent and in Favour of Technological Sovereignty shared collaborative. The council is a pioneer in this area with thousands of cities around the world: and has committed to investing more than 70% barcelona.cat/digitalstandards/ Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 15 Free & open-source software: FLOSS Barcelona Barcelona City Council has joined the free The FLOSSBCN platform is a Hub that software movement and supports the use connects the public administration and the of free and open technology (software, local free and open-source tech ecosystem hardware, computing, data) with the aim of and strengths the collaborative innovation achieving full technological sovereignty. This economy, providing access to projects, job choice allows the digital infrastructures and offers and events, and raising awareness about systems of City Council to be audited pu- open source software in the local industry. blicly in a transparent way. It also facilitates interaction between the local developers’ communities and local entrepreneurs and 70% of the budget allocated to digital development is free and open-source software, which allow cost saving, offer more security and independence and also allow the city to interact with and develop alongside the ICT sector. the public administration, which may lead to Barcelona is the first city to join the the development of more stable, secure, ac- “Free Software Foundation, Public Money, countable and democratically governed digital Public Code” campaign, and is one of the top infrastructures. case studies: How is open source software implemen- ted in a city council? The software is published https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ in public repositories, such as Git hub, with pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Sof- free licences that allow third parties (councils, tware.pdf individuals or companies) to use it, expand on it or improve it. This new way of working also https://github.com/AjuntamentdeBarcelona allows financial savings to be made, as it means no proprietary licences must be paid, avoiding vendors lockin and market capture. It means not having to depend on a technology multi- national and it diversifies local procurement. Today in Barcelona the City Council works with over 3,000 companies and over 60% are sma- ll and medium sized. It also helps to create a network with other administrations for sharing technology and reusing solutions. By far the biggest challenge of transi- tioning to free software and open technology, however, is the cultural change required within Public Money administrative bodies. The right way to do such Public Code a major transition is to create empowerment for the workers, invest in training, and build fsfe.org knowledge sharing processes inside and out- side the organisations. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 16 Project Open Budget Accountability and the right to know are Via this online tool, users can browse bud- essential conditions for an open policy. get information by department and by year, The current Catalan Law on Transparency and find out invoicing information, public (2014) has led to many changes within the expenditures in all key areas, among other administration, including having to pu- functionalities, which allows them to com- blish expenses and revenue from public pare the budget forecast with what was money. In 2016, Barcelona City Council spent. It also includes interactive infogra- created an Open Budget tool to make city phics that help users understand where re- budgets more transparent and unders- venue comes from, where public money is tandable for citizens. being spent and why. All data is available in open format, may be downloaded and can be read in Catalan, Spanish and English. How much did the City How was the money brought Council spend on security in in by tourism invested? the city? How much money was inves- What are Barcelona City ted in guaranteeing housing Council’s main expenses? for all? You can find the answers to all these questions on Open Budget. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 17 Project Transparency Mailbox The fight against corruption is one of the council team receives all communications main concerns of citizens today. Transpa- from city residents, forwards them to the rency is the best way to tackle corruption. relevant departments and investigations Since January 2017, city residents have been are opened. This control element is appli- able to contact the Office for Transparency cable to all areas of Barcelona City Council, and Good Practice through the Transpa- autonomous bodies, local public business rency Mailbox to report cases of corruption organisations, foundations, consortia and A secure and anonymous two-way channel promoting collaboration between the City Council and city residents in order to foster ethical values in public management through participation. within the administration or conduct that is other administrations in which the Catalan not in line with the rules. This is a tool for capital's council takes part. conflict prevention and resolution. Anyone may access the mailbox to This platform is made using inform us of an event or any irregular con- open-source software and the TOR en- duct. You simply need to provide all the crypted network, for enabling anonymous details, any documents or other objective communication and guaranteeing the evidence. Once your claim has been filed, anonymity of the person filing the report. A you can also follow its progress. Have you detected a bad Communication it totally You can track the case practice to the City Council anonymous through one safe channel of Barcelona and you can and talk with the manager of provide proof of this the mailbox, inde pendent in behavior? the exercise of its functions. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 18 Project Progressive web applications 53% of people will leave a web page if it takes Coinciding with the 2017 Mobile World Con- more than three seconds to open. A page's gress, Barcelona City Council set in motion loading time and ease of access are essential its first progressive web app in order to in order to guarantee the success of an app publicise the city's points of interest, publi- or a website. Progressive web applications shed under creative commons licence. This are applications that take advantage of the web app is part of Barcelona City Council's most advanced characteristics of current new digital communication strategy for A commitment to open standards and interoperable technologies. web browsers and adapt to different screens mobile channels, included in the Barcelona and devices. They also allow secure connec- Digital City Plan. This is a commitment to tions to be established to send and recover open standards, open-source software and data and link specific content. Progressive the use of cross platform technologies. web applications follow the example of the most innovative digital journalism media. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 19 Project DEMOCRATISING URBAN TECHNOLOGY: BUILDING THE SMART CITY FROM THE GROUND UP Barcelona wants to move beyond the smart city, Ethical and responsible management of data and making sure technology serves real needs of the technology will enable us to decide what we want people and is used to truly improve their quality of the future of the city to look like, determine prio- life, starting from tackling key social and environ- rities and put into place a social pact for the use mental urban challenges such as affordable hou- of data as a common infrastructure of the city: sing, climate change, energy transition or gentrifi- this is what we call technological sovereignty. cation. Our goal is to use digitisation to benefit all citizens and transition towards a more sustainable, democratic, equitable and circular city. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 20 City OS The City Council has developed an open data make informed, data-driven decisions. infrastructure based on open-code, big data City OS works with both internal and analytics technology for machine learning, City Council data (adjudication of con- which uses single-window access and internal tracts, subsidies, Municipal Action Plan data management, known as a "Data Lake": projects, districts, etc.) and with external City OS. This infrastructure provides bet- agencies under municipal control which ter data governance, quality controls, more hold information on the city, although Using City OS, the City Council is able to distribute municipal resources more efficiently and offer new data- driven services suited to the needs of city residents, making better decisions based on real data. effective privacy and security and, above all, the City Council does not directly manage it gives the City Council a global overview of them (transport, energy, water, environ- this area. The City Council has also created a ment etc.). new Municipal Data Office that uses City OS to PLATFORM FOR ANALYSIS OF URBAN DATA CITY OS 3.000.000 records per day 1,62M habitants BCN 150.000 lampposts 1.800 components / divices 40.000 garbage containers 14.000 sensors / data items 80.000 public parking spots 30 sensor companies in the street 10 typologies Energy, Noise, Garbage, Meteo data, Parking, Air quality, Water meter, Bicycle flow, People flow, Vehicle flow Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 21 Project Sentilo Is it possible to capture the state of the city The advantage of it being open-source soft- in real time? Is it possible to find out how it ware is that any city in the world can deploy breathes, how it moves, how it suffers or how it and do what Barcelona has done. Other it grows If the answer to all of these questions administrations and businesses that want to was yes, it would require a lot of people cons- process large amounts of urban information tantly watching what happens every minute can also do it. When we say that "Barcelona With 19,000 active sensors spread across the city, it compiles and shares the data in real time. of every day in every district of Barcelona. wants to go beyond the smart city", it is pre- Impossible, right? What if all of this informa- cisely through this kind of projects, sharing tion was provided by thousands of sensors? solutions and infrastructures, that this can That is precisely what the open-source sof- be achieved. tware Sentilo does (the term means 'sensor' This network of sensors knows the in Esperanto). It won the 2016 Open Awards flow of people and bicycles along the ci- as the most innovative open-source IoT plat- ty's biggest roads and arteries, the decibel form for cities. levels on each street, the temperature of each neighbourhood and the quality of the air we breathe. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 22 Project Bicing Having a bicycle to move around the city collecting so much data, but now we are. is nothing new. It would almost seem Data is collected through the service app, strange if Barcelona did not have a servi- which also provides a list of stations, bike ce like this one, now that, as the years go availability and the best routes to get to on, almost all large cities have one. your destination. We launched Bicing for the first What do we do with the usage data time in March 2007, and immediately we collected by the app? Data is analysed in This year, we have launched electric bikes and there are more than 200 km of special bicycle lanes for users. had more than 84,000 people that were an ethical way in order to better share using the service. Back then we were not the bikes and optimise vehicle transit. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 23 Project Superblocks Today, all cities are suffering from similar is- The City Council is calling them Supe- sues: air pollution, traffic congestion and lack rilles (superblocks) - mini neighbourhoods of green spaces. As a member of the global around which traffic will flow, and in which smart city movement, Barcelona has become spaces will be repurposed into green spa- a leader in some of the most innovative ur- ce for citizens, freeing up 60% of streets ban changes. City regeneration comes about currently used by cars. They started to The aim of superblocks is to give streets back to residents, fight climate change, and transform public spaces into citizens’ areas with much more greenery and turn them into spaces of leisure, exchange, recreation and culture. Barcelona has involved neighbourhood groups, planners, architects, designers and students in a large scale participatory urban planning process. first and foremost through more efficient be sketched onto the city horizon back in management of resources and services, and 2017, with an initial investment of 10 mi- through finding sustainable strategies. But llion euros. Now they are implemented in how do we go about it? districts through gradual interventions that will repurpose existing infrastructure. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 24 Project KIC Urban Mobility Urban mobility is one of the key challenges which to invest more efficiently in public for all governments. The quality of life of ci- resources in terms of mobility. tizens, co-existence and wellbeing all come The KIC Urban Mobility is based in into play. In order to find the answer toge- Ca l’Alier, in the Sant Martí district. Su- ther, since the end of 2018, Barcelona has perblocks, reconfiguration of the bus been part of the Knowledge and Innovation network, increased cycling infrastructu- Is there room for private cars on our streets? Does having a personal car make sense? Which means of public transport pollute the least? Can they connect all the areas of the city? Will ride sharing through apps become the norm? Community (KIC) in urban mobility, with an re in the city, driverless and connected investment of 40 million euros from Europe. mobility, the regulation of personal mo- In order to conduct this large-scale bility vehicles in the international arena, project, a the KIC Urban Mobility consor- the management of vehicle loading and tium was created, made up of 48 cities in unloading, or the city's work to establish 15 countries, 12 businesses and 18 univer- regulations on shared mobility (ride sha- sities, including the Polytechnic Universi- ring) all added points to Barcelona's lea- ty of Catalonia and Seat. All the partners dership in this European consortium to have worked together to propose ways in rethink the future of urban mobility. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 25 Project A NEW SOCIAL PACT ON DATA: BCN DATA COMMONS Access to and control over data has become a while protecting citizens’ privacy, and their right strategic asset for cities. When we talk about to information self-determination. technology and urban data, we often find our- The concept of 'technological sovereignty' selves faced with a sort of meta-utility, made up is hugely important for cities as it allows city of data, sensors and algorithms driving the rest residents to play an active role when it comes of the city. Today we are collecting around 90% to deciding how the city’s technological infras- more data than three years ago, but is the way tructure works and for what purpose. Barcelona it is managed more efficient, transparent and City Council believes that the control of data appropriate? In the fourth industrial revolution, should be given back to the people. This is why data and artificial intelligence are essential pie- it leads the City Data Commons programme, to ces of digital infrastructure. define an ethical code, as well as rethinking the For citizens it is becoming increasingly legal and economic model for a digital society, so difficult to understand what administrations do that we can return the immense economic value with the big data they collect. It is clear to us all that data represent back to citizens. that we need to make the most out of data to deliver better services and take public decisions, "We cannot leave a small number of technology giants in control of our data. A New Deal on data, based on a rights-based, people-centric framework, which does not exploit personal data to pay for critical infrastructure, is long overdue." Francesca Bria Barcelona City Council Commissioner for Digital Technology and Innovation Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 26 Municipal Data Office Thanks to all the technological infrastruc- new Chief Data Officer, which is now res- ture and sensors spread across the city, ponsible for the management, quality, go- we generate, collect, receive, catalogue, vernance and use of data controlled and/ process or share lots of data that has high or stored by Barcelona City Council and all intrinsic value. Data becomes a public in- of its associated bodies (both public and frastructure; a shared resource for the private). The current volume of information common good. Data is the key to the city generated by citizens and the City Council and can be used to take decisions more itself through its activities, combined with quickly and democratically, to promote in- the existing technology and the science of novation, to achieve improvements to pu- data, allows us to make a leap forward and blic services and to empower people. become more efficient at capturing, sto- Based on this premise, the City ring and analysing data, as well as drawing Council thought it was a priority to crea- conclusions that help with decision-making te a Municipal Data Office and appoint a for new public measures. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 27 Project Municipal Management Dashboard The Municipal Management Dashboard: a da- well as the people served at food banks ta-visualisation tool developed by the Muni- or the number of passengers at El Prat cipal Manager's Office that explains the state airport. It also provides indicators of the of the city in real time. It facilitates monito- City Council's internal work to make the ring and follow-up of how public policies are city function; how council management is being carried out in the city. progressing in implementing public policies What exactly does it show? Informa- and how citizens receive these actions. tion about what is happening in the city in terms of housing, employment or care, as 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 28 Project Big data for public policies The report by the United Nations Department pollution or participation of residents in of Economic and Social Affairs, Revision of the city's political life. Word Urbanization Prospects (2018), forecasts Are high rental prices one of the key that 68% of the global population will live in factors pushing residents and businesses urban areas by 2050. A large concentration of out of the city? Anna Vergés, Technical Di- population means the need to develop a sus- rector of the Observatory, explains that a tainable city model. It is urgent that we use all careful analysis of big data can help to pro- Big data serves, for example, to monitor the gentrification of the city, through the Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (OHB). the technological resources available to tackle pose alternative solutions that help to stop the challenges that cities face, such as hou- these forced displacements. sing, pollution, transport, etc. The City Council is taking part in va- It is currently possible to measure rious European projects H2020 such as and obtain quantitative data on many as- C-Mobile, in order to find innovative so- pects of Barcelona in order to complement lutions to urban mobility. This programme existing views on the city, using a quanti- aims to use artificial intelligence on our tative approach. Today, data represents a streets to ease transport, such as chan- very valuable raw material for institutions. ging all traffic lights to green when an am- 90% more data is collected now than three bulance is going past or vehicles receiving years ago. Big data, which is a term we have signals about changes in speed depending heard a lot in recent years, if we unders- on traffic or the weather. It could also be tand it, helps us to understand the real very useful in reducing pollution and traf- issues when it comes to housing, mobility, fic accidents. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 29 Project Open Data BCN Since the Catalan Law on Transparency, Ac- sonal or professional decisions they want to cess to Public Information and Good Gover- make and how to go about it. nance was passed towards the end of 2014, citizens have had the right to know and re- Open Data Challenge quest public information. Barcelona City With the intention of making people aware Council has a repository of open data that of the information produced by the city, the now includes more than 450 datasets on the City Council has launched open data challen- population, health, economy and education, ges to incentivise the economy, engage small among many others, which can be found in and medium scale companies, entrepre- formats that can be reused and downloaded. neurs, designers and developers through ini- The fact that citizens have access to tiatives such as the World Data Viz Challenge open data is a form of empowerment. An- 2018 Barcelona-Kobe or the Barcelona Open yone can actively find out more about any Data Challenge engaging education institutes piece of data in order to decide what per- and public schools. Territory Population City Administration Economy and services and company Datasets classification: Territory , Population, City and services, Administration, Economy and company Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 30 Project Blockchain for data sovereignty: DECODE The aim of the European project DECODE and establish the level of anonymity they (Decentralised Citizen Owned Data Ecosys- would like, so that they cannot be identi- tem) is to develop decentralised technolo- fied without express consent having been gies (such as blockchain and cryptography) given. This common data infrastructure will to give people greater control over the data be open to local businesses, cooperatives they produce in the city and choose whom and social organisations so that they can they share it with. DECODE aims to develop provide data-focused services and create and test an open source, decentralised, pri- long-term value for the public. vacy-aware and rights-respecting technolo- DECODE's pilot project, Digital De- gies for citizens to decide what kind of data mocracy and Data Commons, is designed they want to keep private, what data they to imagine more democratic forms of data want to share, with whom, on what basis, and governance that respect people's priva- to do what terms. This is a new social pact — cy. You can see the results on BCNNow, a a new deal on data. viewer developed by the Eurocat team. DECODE wants to invert the current Another DECODE pilot is the Citizen situation where people know little about Science Data Governance project, which the operators of the services they are re- uses IoT environmental sensors, located in- gistered with, while the services know side and outside the homes of participants, everything about them. to detect noise and pollution levels. DECO- In the same line, Barcelona considers DE technology allows data to be coded and data to be part of the public infrastructure, shared anonymously. Finally, Smart Citizen alongside communication services, elec- is a platform that connects data, people tricity, water and clean air. But city resi- and knowledge, creating open indicators dents must also be active in this process and shared tools. BCN AGENCIES BCN DATA TMB, BIM/SA, B:SM INFRASTRUCTURE Guardia Urbana City OS, Sentilo habitatge Decidim.barcelona, OPEN DATA BCN decode, Blockchain BARCELONA DATA COMMONS BCN DATA USES TEAMS CASES INSIGHT BCN DATA ANALYTICS CITIZENS / BUSINESS OFFICE ACADEMIA / COMMUNITIES This picture shows how the DECODE technology is integrated in the data architecture of the City of Barcelona, with the aim to create city data commons made up of data gathered from sensors, urban devices and personal data, while protecting people’s rights to privacy and information self-determination. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 31 Project 3.2 DIGITAL INNOVATION Barcelona is a laboratory for urban, sustainable and social innovation. We provide support to digital business and entre- preneurs, encouraging the use of open and inclusive techno- logy that promotes alternative models of economy, such as shared or circular economy, platform cooperatives, makers, maximising the social impact that will help us to tackle the challenges we face as a city and as a society. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 32 DIGITAL ECONOMY AND THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM Barcelona is committed to innovation and sees tech economy and the city's digital ecosystem, the city as an urban platform for establishing con- including businesses of all sizes, putting Barce- nections, as a huge laboratory to attract creative lona on the map of cities that wish to become talent to contribute solving the city’s pressing a reference where digital is put at the service social and environmental problems. Public and of solving city’s missions and challenges. By private actors work together to create an inclusi- boosting this digital economy, investing more ve innovation-led economy, with the capacity to public resources in science and innovation and share products and services globally or act as a co-creating markets with the city's entire in- model to other cities. novation ecosystem, we also want to maximise To stimulate the digital economy, the city the social impact that can help bring a digital has issued a specific government measure that transformation that is inclusive, equitable and aims to contribute to the development of the sustainable. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 33 Growing the city’s digital innovation ecosystem Barcelona has established itself as an inter- the digital economy, helping local talent to national digital hub with a powerful ecosys- flourish and attracting new talent to the city. tem of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit The Mobile World Capital, Barcelona in the city and with renowned events, such Tech City, Barcelona SuperComputing Cen- as the Mobile World Congress or the Smart ter, i2Cat and Big Data CoE are clear exam- City Expo World Congress. The City Council ples of this public and private collaboration incentivise relationships between all these and have become points of attraction for public and private stakeholders and offers foreign investment, talent and new jobs. them support, with the aim of stimulating Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 34 Project 5G Barcelona The Government of Catalonia, Barcelona tropolitan area, which will act as an urban, City Council, Mobile World Capital Barce- citizen and technology laboratory to valida- lona, the i2CAT Foundation, CTTC, Atos te 5G technologies and services. This envi- and the UPC have implemented the 5G ronment of open innovation will be based Barcelona initiative to turn Catalonia into on collaboration between various stakehol- a European 5G digital hub. This pionee- ders, both public and private, and a stimu- ring project will create an experimental, lus for the existing innovation ecosystem in open environment that promises to turn Barcelona, helping to capture foreign in- the city into a metropolitan laboratory of vestment, boost technology start-ups and 5G technology. develop an industry around 5G. 5G Barcelona will also implement a Various pilot projects have taken 5G European digital hub based on an ex- place in health, automotive industry, se- perimental infrastructure open to the me- curity, industry and entertainment. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 35 Project MediaTIC Incubator Technology has changed the economic Incubation and advice space environment, and technological and digital Barcelona Activa's MediaTIC Incubator entrepreneurship has become a new hub of is a good example of public leadership in activity. Barcelona City Council, with Bar- supporting digital entrepreneurship. This celona Activa as its main ally, contributes to welcoming space specialised in businesses the development of the city's technological with high technological impact houses 20 economy and digital ecosystem by offering businesses in 1,400 m2. These businesses services, programmes, activities and faci- work in artificial intelligence, the internet lities that are part of its current portfolio of things (IoT), robotics, space technolo- and by creating new ad hoc projects that gy and nanotechnology. The main aim of will put Barcelona on the map of cities that implementing this new incubator, which are major players in the technological and complements Barcelona Activa's network digital area. of other incubators, is to promote and sup- port the creation and growth of companies with high technological impact, that con- tribute to economic development and to generating qualified jobs. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 36 Project MAKE IN BCN: INNOVATION FOR THE COMMON GOOD In the new economic paradigm created by tech- citizen network, democratises technologies nology, and favouring more collaborative eco- and pursues concepts like 'do-it-yourself', the nomies with greater attention to social impact, circular economy, Kilometre Zero and open Barcelona has been recognised as an example of technology and democracy. Barcelona supports the global maker movement, both for its citizen the use of digital technology to confront social initiatives with a huge diversity of digital produc- challenges and promote models of circular and tion and innovation spaces, and for its public collaborative economy, with particular empha- network of Fab Labs. sis on supporting the maker movement and The Maker movement, which arose as a other processes of democratising technology social movement within the association and (DSI4BCN) on a European scale (DSI4EU). Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 37 Digital social innovation in Barcelona Poblenou Maker District for members to interact. Five sessions have Based on a prototype of a productive and taken place during the mandate, each of scalable city, which aims to contribute to which was organised by the community the city's reindustrialisation through acti- with the council's support, in line with the vities, services and projects that promote maker spirit of collaboration, with more interaction between local communities and than 200 people taking part. The last Maker citizen initiatives, while also being linked to Morning, MM#5, was a dynamic session de- a global community. Digital social innovation dicated to co-defining the future needs is fostered through the use of open tech- and challenges of this community. nologies to combat societal challenges, and aims to enable a community of workshops, How do we do this at a European scale? maker spaces, Fab Labs, universities, re- All these local forces are exported, sha- search institutions, restaurants, businesses red and complemented with experiences and active social movements in neighbour- on a European scale as part of the DSI4EU hoods that foster these new values for Bar- community, created off the back of the celona: those of a city that is open, colla- European project DSI4EU, which is a sup- borative, democratic, inclusive, productive, port platform for social challenges, open circular, innovative and creative. code, open data, crowdsourcing and the internet of things. The European DSI (Digital Creating community Social Innovation) network currently inclu- Maker Mornings (Matins Maker) are quar- des more than 2,200 named organisations, terly meetings between local producers which have collaborated in 1,438 projects. that offer added value to digital social in- The local project, DSI4BCN, organises novation projects and anyone interested in conferences, round tables and events to the maker culture of the city of Barcelona. interconnect the local community with Eu- This initiative is born out of a request for a ropean opportunities, making Barcelona in- co-creation session for public policies that ternationally visible as a model of ethical and took place in 2017, in which the communi- social technology. ty requested, among others, more spaces Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 38 Project Digital Social Innovation fund Barcelona is committed to the ethical and make the most of digital connectivity, distri- responsible use of technology to foster buted technology and protecting people's digital innovation with social impact. The right to privacy, as well as robotics and arti- Impulsem el que fas fund, organised by ficial intelligence, open data, open knowle- Barcelona Activa, offers a solution to Bar- dge and open machinery, those that work celona's high social impact needs, such in the areas of social inclusion, education 5 M€ invested in the Impulsem el que fas fun 500.000 € dedicated to digital social innovation invested in 16 projects. as recycling, digital inclusion, bridging the for digital empowerment, and solutions for digital gap - with emphasis on the gender new, more sustainable lifestyles and the cir- perspective - or the fight against energy cular economy. Up to now, 16 projects have poverty, among others. enjoyed the support of 500,000 euros in The Digital social innovation in the the areas of education, energy management territories category supports projects that and the circular economy. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 39 Project Maker Faire Barcelona The Maker Faire is the major event of the year dance rising from 1,000 people to 10,000 in (and an international brand) for invention and just five years. In 2017 and 2018, the years digital creation that brings together hundreds which saw the biggest number of attendees of engineers, artists, designers, hackers, arti- and greatest impact, the Maker Faire took sans, makers, digital artisans, programmers place in the Pavelló Italià hall at the Fira de and scientists, who experiment, collaborate Barcelona, Barcelona Trade Fair. Barcelona is a pioneer in the field of industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing, as well as in the promotion of social and local economies. The Maker Faire wants to move from industrial chimneys to digital production and innovation. and innovate based on open source softwa- The 2019 Maker Faire will take place in Sant re, open hardware, distributed digital ma- Andreu, one of the main maker districts in nufacturing in order to present their most Barcelona. This new edition aims to focus innovative projects within the framework of on the capacity of this innovation context Society and Industry 4.0. The first Maker Faire to create synergies and to stimulate the was born in San Francisco in 2006. 12 years nascent model of social innovation, entre- later, the 225 fairs organised around the preneurship, production and consumption world, with over 1,600,000 participants and a in the city. In short, it aims to become a worldwide network with thousands of maker great celebration of digital production for centres and initiatives, all reveal the initia- the entire neighbourhood. tive's social, economic and environmental It is a Sonar+D initiative with FabLab scope and impact. Barcelona and SokoTech, co-organised by Maker Faire Barcelona is the local ver- Make Magazine with the support of Barce- sion of the event, which has taken place in lona City Council through the Commissio- our city for several years now, with atten- ner for Digital Technology and Innovation. . Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 40 Project BARCELONA AS LABORATORY FOR URBAN INNOVATION Barcelona is a hotbed of experimentation for mobility or quality of life. It has also enabled the many and varied initiatives that have taken innovation and SMEs to be brought to public place in other parts of the city. Barcelona is procurement. a laboratory for urban, sustainable and social Through the Directorate for Digital Innova- innovation. Hence the creation of the i.lab, lo- tion the technology strategy is designed and im- cated in the new 22@ Nord building, Ca l’Alier. plemented, focusing on the needs of the city and It is a space in which to innovate collabora- its residents. The City Council wants to solve the tively, in a confluence of new technologies (open city's challenges through more democratic use data and big data, robotics, artificial intelligence, of technology, boosting technological innovation internet of things, etc.) to maximise sustainability and social and environmental transformation, as and social and environmental impact. It responds well as favouring citizen empowerment. to the city's challenges with regard to housing, Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 41 i.lab and Ca l’Alier, laboratories of sustainable and social urban innovation The i.lab wants to respond to the re- i.lab Days quests, needs and challenges of the city Collaborative innovation requires interac- and citizens in an open and collaborative tion between the different stakeholders in way between the public, private, acade- the innovation ecosystem, which is why the mic and social sectors, and through open i.lab Days were thought up. These periodic The i.lab wants to respond to challenges such as access to more affordable housing, the role of women in the technology industry or how to make mobility more sustainable through the use of data and in collaboration with universities, third sector companies, research institutes and entrepreneurs, and also with other cities. exchange with other cities. Through i.lab, meetings offer opportunities for dialogue challenges are identified and innovative and reflection between both public and solutions are sought through open com- private innovation communities. Each the- petitions to improve public services, con- med session discusses and shares a topic, sidering ethical and responsible use of with the aim of promoting cross-cutting data and technology, maximising sustai- collaboration dynamics. nability, social impact and the scalability of the solutions proposed. Home of urban innovation The laboratory is in Ca l’Alier, the new mu- nicipal home of urban innovation, managed by the BIT Habitat Foundation, yet another example of the recovery of the city's in- dustrial heritage and a new 22@ Barcelona Nord icon. The building also houses the BIT Habitat Foundation and a Cisco Systems centre for IoT innovation. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 42 Project i.lab challenges DataCity: data and mobility BCN-NYC affordable housing DataCity is an international programme, The scarcity of affordable housing has a ne- adopted by Barcelona in 2018, which invites gative impact on social inclusion, equality, technology companies and corporations to health and sustainability. Both the cities of resolve urban issues through the use of data. Barcelona and New York are committed to In order to do so, the programme adopts boosting initiatives that reduce this issue. agile working methods and data science, hi- This is indicated in the "Declaration of Local ghlighting the value of data as part of the city Governments for the Right to Housing and infrastructure. In the first edition, two cha- the Right to the City". During the Smart City llenges were launched within the framework Expo World Congress 2018, they launched of improving city mobility: how to reduce a joint call to find innovative technologies the impact of the distribution of goods in and tools with the intention of reducing the the city by optimising the last mile and how cost of construction and renovation in den- to optimise the management of mobility at se urban areas. The BCN-NYC Affordable the city’s access points. Housing Challenge proposes the use of al- ternative and sustainable materials, or new Empowering women in the techno- systems of cost management and planning logy industry to make housing affordable. The gender gap that exists in the technolo- gy industry is a serious problem that must be tackled by both the public and private Barcelona plays things right sectors. The speed of today’s technological Barcelona City Council aims to foster play development and its effects on all aspects and active leisure in public spaces. This of our society only highlight how techno- is why it has unveiled a network of almost logy products and services should not be 900 spaces in which to play. These spaces developed solely by half the population. must, however, by properly maintained and The challenge sought solutions that would adapted to the changing needs of citizens. contribute to bridging this gap and that Through the "Barcelona plays things right" could be copied and scaled up or down. In challenge, one more step is taken towards collaboration with the Mobile World Capital innovating public procurement processes, Foundation and its d-lab programme, citi- making the most of an invitation to tender zens were asked to present proposals that for maintenance of children's play areas. would make women more visible in the tech- The aim is to obtain reliable usage data, as nology industry. well as data on the condition of the space and its play and leisure equipment, adjusting them to children's preferences. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 43 Project Innovative public procurement Europe is promoting strategic public pro- citizens, goods or services that were pre- curement, combining efficient public spen- viously not available on the market may be ding with the promotion of common social incorporated; for industry, businesses and objectives. In 2017 Barcelona City Council SMEs are given greater opportunities and approved a decree to boost sustainable internationalisation is promoted; and for the public procurement, a circular local eco- City Council it promotes a cultural change nomy and the economic activity of small and ethical practices. Barcelona has prepa- and medium-sized enterprises. The council red a guide to making the most of innovative has an annual procurement volume of 600 public procurement. million euros on goods and services (almost a quarter of the municipal budget), which Some experiences: is why changing public procurement means —› Diagonal road renovation works: they a huge cultural change. It is about making innovate with the pavement using cobbles- purchases with public money more respon- tones, a unique and characteristic piece of sibly, with innovative sustainable solutions, Barcelona for the past one hundred years. and not just shopping using economic mar- —› Barcelona Open Challenge: international ket criteria. invitation to tender for companies to pro- pose innovative solutions to city challenges. How do we go about sustainable Aiming to transform specific spaces and pu- procurement? blic services across the city. Firstly, we need to detect current and futu- —› Purchasing vehicles for the Guàrdia Ur- re needs. Advice services and professionals bana: Barcelona City Council has bought 45 with up-to-date knowledge of the market diesel vehicles, with 1.6 TDI displacement and are involved in this process. Procurement 103.5 HP of power, for city patrol services cannot end when the contract is signed, but and duties. The new cars are equipped with a monitoring and control system must ins- acoustic systems, GPS, computers and other tead be established during execution, com- elements that facilitate the officers' work. plete with an evaluation of results. There are many benefits to working in this way: for Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 44 Project 3.3 DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT When technology has transformed the way we live, work and interact, the digital divide is a risk that we cannot afford. Improving education, creativity, critical thinking and collective awareness is fundamental to the transition towards a digital future that is more democratic, equitable and sustainable. Barcelona City Council is committed to digital empowerment, to promote new skills, and create better jobs in the age of robots and automation. With these programs Barcelona wants to harness digital technologies in order to create good jobs in communities across the city and fight inequality. We are doing this by en- suring that advances in digital technology preserve citizen’s digital rights, gender equality and social inclusion. We are also promoting participatory democracy, integrating the collective intelligence of citizens in the political decision-making pro- cess. In this way we can build a more democratic digital society by empowering people and social innovation movements. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 45 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR DEMOCRACY The digital society needs to be built with citizens. Barcelona City Council has at its disposal digital Barcelona fosters the use of technology to faci- tools, open-source software and open code that litate active democracy. This means developing are easy to use so that everyone can contribute infrastructures for participation in digital envi- their knowledge, suggest policy priorities aligned ronments that are open, secure, privacy-enhan- with their collective needs and debate with others cing and rights preserving and that can integrate about issues of concern to them. the collective intelligence of citizens into the Putting citizens at the centre, we also aim political decision-making process. The Decidim. to increase their digital sovereignty, give them Barcelona democratic platform, with more than the opportunity to improve their skills to fully 40,000 participants, helps us experiment with exercise digital rights and liberties, as well as the new ways and methods for a genuinely partici- right to data protection, privacy, autonomy and patory democracy. information self-determination. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 46 Decidim.Barcelona The digital participation and participatory city plan together with the citizens. In 2016 democracy platform Decidim. Barcelona, we inaugurated the Municipal Action Plan in used by more than 40.000 citizens in Bar- the form of a participatory process throu- celona and by over 60 cities and organiza- gh Decidim Barcelona. Currently, this plan tions globally, gives citizens a voice so that includes almost 7 thousand citizen propo- they can actively participate In the political sals, and 70% of the citizens proposals were life and co-design future policies. Decidim integrated into the municipal government helps citizens, organizations and public ins- action plan. One of the advantages of using titutions self-organize democratically at this platform is that you can always monitor every scale. It takes deliberation, collabo- the state of implementation of the appro- ration and decision to a massive dimension, ved proposals. with thousands of people participating in real time. It empowers communities through How do I take part in a city process citizen initiatives, promotes relevant voting that I'm interested in? through consultations and It analyses the —› Consult the open participatory processes. submitted proposals, promoting a new way —› Take part in debates (make new proposals, of distributing common resources. comment on existing proposals, give arguments The tool is developed using open-sour- in favour or against, support or share through ce software, so that it can be reused and im- social media). proved. It also integrates with decode tech- —› Track proposals (those begun on the platform nologies, thus providing security. Privacy and those generated at face-to-face meetings, and data sovereignty. consult all debates, follow comments and final Thanks to Decidim, in Barcelona we documents). have managed to co-produce a strategic Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 47 Project Cities Coalition for Digital Rights Digital rights are like human rights, but in the 2 —› Privacy, data protection and security world of the internet and digital technology. 3 —› Transparency, accountability and Due to the acceleration in the adoption of non-discrimination in data, content and new technologies (such as big data, 5G, and algorithms artificial intelligence) it is harder and harder 4 —› Participatory democracy, diversity, and to guarantee protection of individual's rights, inclusion such as privacy and data sovereignty. It is 5 —› Open and ethical digital service stan- not unusual to hear that thousands of e-mail dards access passwords have been stolen, that so- Each city involved in the coalition has cial media companies are trading and selling put into practice measures to protect and personal information and data to other com- promote the digital rights of their citizens panies or that our personal communications and visitors. Barcelona has put forward very are monitored and controlled. strong actions to protect the digital rights In 2018, Barcelona initiated – together of its citizens: The creation of Ethical Digital with New York and Amsterdam – a global Standards, an open source Policy Toolkit for alliance to protect the digital rights of indi- cities to develop digital policies that put ci- viduals: the Cities Coalition for Digital Ri- tizens at the canter and make governments ghts, born with the intention of proposing a more open, transparent, and collaborative; common Roadmap, laws, tools, actions and the development of the citizens' participa- resources to protect the digital rights of both tion platform Decidim; the Barcelona Open residents and visitors. Data portal, enabling more transparency regarding city services, and takes part in the These founding cities have launched European DECODE project, which gives back the "100 cities in 100 days" campaign, data sovereignty to citizens. The City Council to expand this coalition, which priori- is also committed to working towards tech- tises five principles: nology sovereignty and has launched a Mani- 1 —› Equal and universal access to Internet festo in Favour of Technological Sovereignty and computer literacy for cities and citizens’ digital rights. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 48 Project DIGITAL SKILLS, EDUCATION AND TRAINING Permanent education and training in the most digital skills, and to provide training as a tool advanced technologies is the way to make the for social, intergenerational, territorial and general public more familiar with emerging gender incision. technologies. This empowers people and also With technology as a tool to empower helps to foster a general public that is aware, people, quality jobs may be created in all com- participate actively and is better prepared for munities to fight against inequalities. Through the tasks of the 21st century. The priority areas the Cibernàrium, more than 12,000 courses and are creativity and technology in the classroom activities have been offered, helping more than in order to foster scientific and technological 50,000 people to improve their digital skills and, vocations in children (STEAM), digital techno- above all, to reinvent themselves professionally. logies for inclusion and future employment We are also planning for the jobs of the future in order to train young and active people in through the STEAM BCN programme. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 49 Cibernàrium Located in the MediaTIC 22@ building, the What are the characteristics of these Cibernàrium is the Barcelona Activa pro- activities? gramme that allows people to train in tech- Trade and business, marketing and commu- nology and prepare themselves professiona- nication, web creation, digital image and lly through digital skills. Short and medium design, programming, education and ICT, 3D duration activities, lots of practical exercises, and digital production. What would you like and learning materials about the internet and to learn? The Cibernàrium offers over 180 di- technologies, aimed at professional sectors. fferent activities, in small groups from basic up to advanced level. Barcelona Activa also helps you to find work, launch your project, prepare a business plan and look for funding for your professional idea. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 50 Project STEAM BCN Science and technology professionals are in- pective, innovative pedagogical approaches creasingly sought after. A major gap between for scientific learning, using technology, the global supply and demand is predicted in the arts and critical thinking. Workshops, trai- market for professionals with these profiles. ning capsules, visits to research centres, This gap increases yet further in the case ideathons, etc. have all been designed to be of women, as there is an alarming gender rolled out in schools, libraries, universities inequality. In Barcelona, girls represent just or Fab Labs, among others. 13% of people on ICT courses and 26% in the In collaboration with the GSMA and science and technology sector. the Government of Catalonia, programmes Faced with this scenario, Barcelona such as MSchools and the YOMO Festival Activa has created STEAM BCN (Science, Tech- are promoted, attracting more than 10,000 nology, Art, Engineering and Mathematics) children and 4,000 educators. Educational to foster science, technology and the arts programmes are also delivered in Fab Labs: and integrate it in pre-school to secondary 4 public Fab Labs that train more than 5,000 schools’ curricula, offering tools and re- students and teachers in digital production sources to both teaching staff and families. and IT literacy in schools. The project focuses on the gender pers- Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 51 Project Ateneus de Fabricaciò: Network of public Fab Labs Fab Labs are places to learn, collaborate for the time, talent, involvement and partici- in different projects and form part of the pation of people to benefit the community. city's social development. They are a pu- All without any money changing hands. blic service concerning technology and the science of digital production. Anyone and Fab Labs in the Technology Park everyone can enjoy the spaces, tools and The new Technology Park is a showcase of public resources and propose projects to advanced industry in Barcelona. This spa- improve their surroundings. ce is aimed at the city's SMEs and com- Fab Labs are open to everyone and the panies that produce their own product in "price" paid to use them is known as contra- the field of technology and industry. prestació, a system of social reinvestment for the support received in the lab in exchange Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 52 Project DIGITAL INCLUSION Access to new technologies defines a new type We must aim for a more democratic, fairer of social fracture in cities, which often correlates and more prosperous digital future, giving the highly with economic and educational inequa- same opportunities to all and thinking of future lities. We must work to reduce this digital gap generations, and above all, of women. We have and facilitate skills, abilities and access to new designed programmes such as Girls for Change, technologies, by means of educational program- or the i.lab challenge Women & Tech to make mes and coordinating the stakeholders that are women more visible in the world of technology. working to enable these measures to reach the greatest number of city residents. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 53 Barcelona Declaration for digital social inclusion A collaboration agreement between Bar- Antenes Cibernàrium also fight to bridge the celona City Council and the Telefónica digital gap, turning some libraries across the Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation, city into IT literacy training centres. In the the Orange Foundation, Cisco Systems year 2018, 10 districts were reached through and Lenovo has led all these organisa- 14 programmes. tions to work together to bridge the di- gital gap. Their work offers social return Activities conducted through 2018 within the framework of programmes —› 14 capsules aimed at reducing the digital divide and —› 3 tours and talks in interdisciplinary re- offering skills acquisition for groups who search spaces have greater difficulty fully accessing new —› 6 interactive workshops technologies. Priority has been given to —› Girls Hack Day sessions neighbourhoods and portions of the po- pulation that the Government has identi- Participants: fied as being more vulnerable. —› 723 teenagers > 50% of whom were girls —› 57 teachers and or doctoral students Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 54 Project Empowering Women in tech The European Commission report, "Wo- The City Council drafted a study entitled men active in the ICT sector", reveals that The ICT Ecosystem from a Gender Pers- across Europe only 29 out of every 1,000 pective in Barcelona, which confirmed this female graduates gain a degree related data on the under-representation of wo- to computer science (compared to 95 men in this field, although it did highlight, male students). This number reduces sig- among other things, that the gender pay nificantly to just 4 if we are talking about gap in this sector (-10.7%) is clearly less Information and Communication Techno- than the Barcelona average (-21.8%). Barcelona City Council incorporates the gender perspective in everything it does. Seeking gender equality in participation in international events, such as the Mobile World Congress or the Smart City Expo, is an example of this. logies (ICT) alone. Females tend to aban- We are promoting the role of women in the don the sector during their careers, which technology industry in order to strive for means that only 9% of those who studied equality in this sector. The gender divide, ICT still work in the field by the age of 45. although smaller than in other industries, In Catalonia, according to the Agency still exists. It must therefore be tackled for the Quality of the University System, du- through education, encouraging scientific ring the 2015-2016 academic year, only 13% and technological vocations among girls. of students enrolled on ICT courses were female. Of every 1,000 women, only 4 work in the ICT sector. Barcelona City Council is working on empowering women in tech- nology to enhance the equality of women. i.lab's Girls for Change, Data and Women Hackathons, and Empowering Women in Tech are some of the events promoted. Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 55 Project Rec: Barcelona’s digital social currency This digital social currency acts as a com- the council, in collaboration with NOVACT plementary form of payment, to accelerate (International Institute for Nonviolent Ac- and support the local economy. It gives us tion), it aims to create a citizen exchange the opportunity to measure the impact of system that is complementary or equal to The economic model in which we are living poses many challenges for the local economy, especially for small businesses. There is huge competition from digital platforms that are widespread around the globe, which leads to the issue of commercial desertification in many neighbourhoods. consumption in the city. It is estimated that the euro, strengthening associative net- 5,000 people are now using one of the 70 works and the social and solidarity eco- social currencies in Spain. nomy. Paying a business, charging a client, In Barcelona, the REC - citizens' eco- sending money to someone or checking nomic resource has been introduced into transactions are just some of the things you ten neighbourhoods in an economic de- can already do with recs. pressed area of Barcelona. Developed by 488 users 610.000 172 Recs issued 884 small retailers Recs entered Deployed in 10 districts Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 56 Project An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center and make governments more open,transparent, and collaborative. Digital services standard To create, manage and deliver agile and open digital services for citizens. Code of technologcal practices Series of guidelines for implementing technological projects with free software technologies, open standards and agile methodologies. Guide on Agile Methodologies To implement agile methodologies under Barcelona City Council's agile transformation strategy. Public procurement of technology New model of relations with technology suppliers by including contractual clauses on data sovereignty, so that suppliers have to transfer data to the City Council in a machine-readable format. Technological sovereignty For adopting free software and open standards so as to achieve technological sovereignty and recover democratic control of technology and data. Responsible and ethical data strategy For the responsible and ethical management of the city's data. This establishes a common data roadmap for restoring the control of personal data to citizens. Barcelona's Ethical Digital Standards Government Directives · Government Directive on open digitalisation https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/LE_MesuradeGovern_ EN_9en.pdf · Government Directive on ethical and responsible data management https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/2018_mesuradego- vern_en.pdf Barcelona Digital City video • People & Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEiL2UTXAYg • Makers & the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbmeTCWztxQ · STEAM & the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_OQHmcKEE · Mission Innovation & the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXD0XdcwrGI 3.1. Digital Transformation: Open, collaborative and transparent governance • Open-source software https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/tecnolo- gia-per-a-un-millor-govern/programari-lliure https://flossbcn.org · Free Software Foundation Campaign Public Money, Public Code https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.pdf • Open Budget https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/estrategiaifinances/pressupostobert • Transparency Mailbox https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/bustiaetica • Progressive web applications https://webapp.barcelona.cat/pics · Ethical Digital Standars https://www.barcelona.cat/digitalstandards Democratising Urban Technology • City OS https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/tecnologia-ur- bana/cityos • Sentilo https://connecta.bcn.cat/ • Bicing https://www.bicing.cat Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 58 Website resources pages • Superblocks https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/tecnologia-ur- bana/superilles • KIC Urban Mobility https://eit.europa.eu/eit-community/eit-urban-mobility A new social pact with data: BCN Data Commons • Municipal Data Office https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/city-data-com- mons/oficina-municipal-de-dades • Municipal Management Dashboard https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/city-data-com- mons/quadre-de-comandament-municipal • Big data for public policies https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/city-data-com- mons/big-data-per-a-politiques-publiques • Open Data BCN https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat • BCN Open Data Challenge https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/transformacio-digital/city-data-com- mons/repte-de-dades-obertes-open-data-challenge • Blockchain for data sovereignty DECODE https://decodeproject.eu 3.2. Digital innovation: Digital economy and the innovation ecosystem • 5G Barcelona https://5gbarcelona.org • MediaTIC Incubator https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/innovacio-digital/economia-digital/in- cubadora-mediatic Make in BCN: innovation for the common good • Digital social innovation in Barcelona https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-innovation/make-in-bcn/digi- tal-social-innovation-programme-dsi4bcn https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-innovation/make-in-bcn/po- blenou-maker-district https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/innovacio-digital/make-in-bcn/ma- tins-maker • Impulsem el que fas (We promote what you do) https://empreses.barcelonactiva.cat/ca/web/es/impulsem-el-que-fas • Maker Faire Barcelona https://barcelona.makerfaire.com/ Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 59 Website resources pages Barcelona as laboratory for urban innovation • i.lab and Ca l’Alier https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/innovacio-digital/i-lab/inici • Innovative public procurement https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-innovation/i-lab/innova- tion-in-public-procurement 3.3. Digital empowerment: Collective intelligence for democracy and digital rights • Decidim Barcelona https://www.decidim.barcelona • Cities Coalition for Digital Rights https://citiesfordigitalrights.org • Participation of Barcelona City Council's Municipal Institute of Information Technology in European projects https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/imi/sites/default/files/infografia/index_ca.html Digital skills education and training • Cibernàrium https://cibernarium.barcelonactiva.cat/ • STEAM BCN https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/apoderament-digital/educacio-i-ca- pacitacio-digital/esdeveniments-educatius • Fab Labs https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/apoderament-digital/educacio-i-ca- pacitacio-digital/ateneus-de-fabricacio Digital Inclusion • Barcelona Declaration for digital social inclusion https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/ca/apoderament-digital/inclusio-digital/ declaracio-de-barcelona-per-la-inclusio-social-digital • Empower women on technology https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-empowerment/digital-inclu- sion/technology-and-gender • Rec, Barcelona’s social currency (link to Area of Social Rights) https://www.rec.barcelona Barcelona Digital City Plan (2015-2019) 60 Website resources pages Barcelona.cat/digital @BCN_digital BARCELONA DIGITAL CITY PLAN (2015-2019)