ICT 2008 Networking session N.65
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[edit] European large scale Living Labs Pilots and Best Practices
Networking session N.61 (ID:814) http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=814
Day 2, 26 November 2008, 14.00-15.30, Room: Saint Clair 3B
Description
Collaborating LL can create critical mass and impact to address societal challenges. Emerging pilots will cover several areas identified by CO-LLABS as the most promising ones to care about needs of today’s and tomorrow’s citizens: among them, e-Health and sustainable energy & intelligent traffic are lead markets that deserve a special attention. The results coming from the experience of the currently active Living Labs (51 LLs have already joined ENoLL in the two waves launched so far) have been analyzed and, further to the identification of the winning factors and of the critical points, Best Practices have been derived and proposed specifically to the Living Labs community (the current ENoLL members plus new emerging entities) and to the Open Innovation communities in general.
Session specific objectives
Although the CO-LLABS project addresses a number of domains much higher, two domains have been considered as particularly suitable (in the time limits of the Networking Session) to demonstrate the extraordinary capacity of LL to co-create innovation and dealing with large scale projects.
- e-Health
Healthcare is the typical example of large scale involvement: all citizens in their lives experience personal interactions with the health system, from traditional structures (at several degrees of hospitalisation) to problems emerged in the recent years. LL for Healthcare assign a special focus on inclusive policies and on the ageing phenomenon: they also allow for a greater awareness of how innovation can be deployed into health models and technology can be really considered on the community side.
- Sustainable energy & intelligent traffic
Among the several concern on the future of our planet, energy ranks in the very first places. The political debate crosses several technological dimensions, from earth sciences to technologies that assist all energy stakeholders in producing, distributing and using energy resources in the most sustainable way. Among these stakeholders, community of professionals (transportation experts for intelligent traffic, pollution limitation specialists) and communities of users (citizens in general and citizens in movement, facing urban traffic everyday) are particularly considered in LL operative proposals as the ones that CO-LLABS pursues.
The session will conclude with a presentation and discussion on the most advanced developments in defining Best Practices for LL: a nearly exhaustive view of what has been studied and experimented through the years can be retrieved in the activities carried out by CoreLabs first and by CO-LLABS now.
Agenda and panel list of invited speakers
Luis Pablo del Arbol Perez: LL eHealth Cluster.
Vin Sumner: LL for Sustainable Energy & Intelligent Traffic solutions.
Jens Schumacher: Best Practices for European large scale LL Pilots.
Roberto Santoro: the role of CO-LLABS in large scale Living Labs Pilots
Expected audience
eProfessionals, Enterprises (SMEs in particular), ICT consultants, policy makers, PPP-operators, technological brokers, experts in the specific areas addressed (Health, Energy, Mobility).
Expected outcomes
- State-of-the-art overview on LL and ENoLL.
- Access to innovative LL breeding ground.
- Visibility on LL roadmaps and business opportunities.
- Facilitation to create pilot projects and to manage the transition towards sustainable commercial positioning.
- Understanding basics on Best Practices for LL and criteria to assess and evaluate them.
- Impact of business models and governance models in adapting Best Practices to different LL (included ex-post evaluations based on specific metrics to assess the LL performances and to obtain indicators to drive the feedback process of tuning Best Practices).
- Specific issues for Best Practices for LL: sustainability and mainstreaming.
See also: http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/Events#ICT_2008
