DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE Assessment Report for the City of Karlskrona
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DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE Assessment report for the city of Karlskrona 25/03/2019 1 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide Digital Cities Challenge Assessment report for the city of Karlskrona Fredrik Sjölin, CDO Karlskrona municipality Pär Weström, support consultant CARSA with the contributions of the Digital City leadership team Carl-Martin Lanér, CEO Karlskrona municipality Thomas Johansson, department manager Karlskrona municipality Pia Holgersson, enterprise manager Karlskrona municipality Martin Andersson, Professor Blekinge Institute of Technology Andreas Larsson, Innovation Leader Blekinge Institute of Technology Per Johansson, CDO Region Blekinge Martin Åkesson, CEO at Almi Joakim Thiel, Business Development at Blue Science Park 2 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide Table of contents 1. Introduction to the Digital Cities Challenge ................................................................... 4 2. Key sectors of the local economy and DCC focus ............................................................ 6 3. Digital maturity level of the city: outcomes of the Self-Assessment Tool ......................... 8 4. The local digital ecosystem: leadership and governance ................................................ 13 5. The use of digital solutions by local companies ............................................................. 15 6. Community engaged in digital transformation ............................................................. 19 7. The state of local digital and physical infrastructure ...................................................... 21 8. Digital solutions enabling the modernisation of business environment ........................... 23 9. Data-driven innovation .............................................................................................. 24 10. Skills and entrepreneurial culture ............................................................................ 26 11. Digital transformation SWOT analysis ..................................................................... 30 Appendix I: Table of abbreviations and definitions ............................................................... 33 Appendix II : List of ambition workshop attendees and contributors ...................................... 34 3 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide 1. Introduction to the Digital Cities Challenge According to the recent data, 72% of the EU’s population lives in cities, towns and suburbs, making them the engines of the continent’s economy. Cities generate 85% of Europe’s GDP, they also face multiple, interconnected challenges, including energy and climate change, employment, migration, social inequality, and water, air and soil pollution. However, through advanced digital technologies, Europe has the opportunity to re-invent the way we manage our cities’ development and respond to the big societal challenges, such as efficient health management, cleaner environment, green mobility, and offering great-value jobs. Due to their high density, cities are put in a very good position to create innovative ecosystems made up of a wide array of different stakeholders from government, industry, finance, academia, communitarian organisations, social partners, etc. Cities have the capacity to make policies become reality. In this context arises the Digital Cities Challenge, an initiative of the European Commission with the main purpose to support the cities in their path to digital transformation. DCC offers policy advice and support to 40 cities in Europe, see picture. The support to be offered will speed up the digital transformation and the industrial modernisation of cities in order for them to take full advantage of the 4th industrial revolution. This initiative draws inspiration on the recommendations set out in the "Blueprint for cities as launch pads for digital transformation". In addition, it will reinforce the networking among model cities, facilitate their participation in on-going European initiatives in similar policy fields, strengthen stakeholder collaboration, cross-regional partnerships and stimulate investments. 4 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide The selected Digital Cities receive support and the possibility for city representatives to participate in a series of capacity building and networking seminars. These activities take place in four Academy seminars during which cities share practices, take advantage of peer to peer learning and work together and in thematic groups on the steps of their transformation trajectory. This document has been developed in the framework of the field advisory services delivered in Karlskrona. It represents the main output of the first step of the digital transformation strategy: setting the digital vision and ambition for digital transformation. The assessment report has been developed by the Digital City team on the basis of: The results of the Self-Assessment Tool at the city level which took place between June 20 and September 3, 2018. 13 valid replies were collected through the SAT. A literature review of key documents provided by the local leadership team, including reports, policy documents and project plans. A vision an ambition workshop that took place on 3 September. (cf. Appendix IV for the full list of ambition workshop attendees) This document represents the key input to the work performed during the subsequent phases of the digital transformation trajectory (i.e. definition of the city strategy and roadmap). 5 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide 2. Key sectors of the local economy and DCC focus Karlskrona is a growing economy where both industrial and commercial areas are expanding fast. The main economic sectors of Karlskrona are: Public sector, Industry, IT and Telecoms, Transport, Media, Agriculture and forestry, Retail, Tourism and World Heritage Site. Its strategic position on the Baltic Sea, investments in the port and other infrastructure provide a springboard for international commerce and is developing the city as a tourist destination. The employment rate (ratio of employed to working age population from 15 to 64 years) is 72.2%.The municipality itself, the naval base, the county hospital and Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) are all among the largest employers in the municipality. Large private employers are Ericsson AB, Saab Kockums, ABB and Telenor. The municipality holds a comprehensive range of IT and telecom companies, including many examples of world-leading development, for example Ericsson, Telenor, Blue Science Park, Blekinge Business Incubator and Hyper Island. Blekinge Institute of Technology has a distinctive focus on applied IT and innovation for sustainable growth. BTH conducts education and research at a high international level in which engineering and IT are integrated with other disciplines such as spatial planning, industrial economics, design and health sciences to contribute to solving the challenges facing society. What distinguishes Blekinge Institute of Technology is its close cooperation with industry and society which permeates both education and research at the regional, national and international levels. Blue Science Park in Karlskrona have more than 80 member companies and organisations that are involved in three different clusters (ICT, Marine Technology and eHealth). Vision Karlskrona 2030 is the basis for the strategic work of the forthcoming term of office and was adopted in November 2012 − based on broad dialogue with citizens, companies and associations – aiming for Karlskrona to grow and to get more residents, jobs and visitors. The Development Plan for Smart city Karlskrona has the overall aims to provide: A simpler daily life for people and businesses, Smarter and more open administration to support innovation and participation and 6 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide Higher quality and efficiency in activities. The work is organised in four programme areas: E-administration, E-health, Digitalising schools and Smart city. The ambition is that Karlskrona will act as model for other Swedish and European cities. By developing and testing novel policy levers in a collaborative approach with the involvement of other cities as peers it will demonstrate how to reap the benefits offered by the transformative power of digitisation. It will showcase how to fill the gaps which are currently hindering Karlskrona to advance and capture the benefits of digital transformation. 7 DIGITAL CITIES CHALLENGE – Assessment Report guide 3. Digital maturity level of the city: outcomes of the Self-Assessment Tool Highlights from the SAT results A majority of the respondents answered that there is (at least to some extent) a shared vision amongst most of the city's stakeholders on digital development. However, some indicated that stakeholders have no shared (or only partially shared) vision on digital development. Apparently, there are large differences in perception among the utilities representatives. The most common view is that there is acknowledgement of the need of collaboration between digital and non-digital stakeholders, but limited collaboration in practice. The existence of a tech-community with stakeholders from various sectors in the city is also confirmed. There is high agreement among the stakeholders that networking events for digital companies organised in the city result in visible business development. With respect to events bringing together digital