Creating a Smart Ecosystem in Lisbon

Abstract

While Lisbon has enjoyed a very dynamic and burgeoning innovation ecosystem, attracting tech start-ups and flagship corporations alike, the municipality saw an opportunity to further encourage its growth. For this purpose, the municipality has taken a very focused and pragmatic approach on creating a solid smart city ecosystem that would enable and foster research and development of new products and services, promoting economic and technological growth, while at the same time supporting a paradigm shift through the intensive use of data and its refining into knowledge. Based on the paramount values of efficiency, transparency and participation, the municipality has designed a number of core projects that will allow the smart city and innovation ecosystem to grow incrementally, making existing services more sustainable and efficient, while allowing the creation of new services that were not possible before. Lisbon’s Intelligent Management Platform, a state-of-the-art urban management platform at the core of our strategy, is showing remarkable potential and attracting national and international recognition. By actively engaging and involving key city stakeholders, like industry, public institutions, regulatory bodies, academia and citizens, this strategy has already shown to be the right course for the smart future of Lisbon.