A similar tool was developed in the United States

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"It's a recipe that the success of Web 2.0" explains Daniel Kaplan, Delegate General of the Foundation Internet generation (FING). By mobilizing the capacity of initiative partners but their own users, including by digital means, City players are able to identify good ideas and demand more and more complex. "Thus, the city of Brest was the Wiki-Brest project, to write the inhabitants to tell the heritage of the region. The British Government launched for its part, mid-2008, a competition of ideas open to the public on the theme of public information.

Everywhere, hundreds of individual or collaborative initiatives are put in place to solve local problems or create the connection, but they are still isolated. Hence the creation end of 2006 by the FING, in cooperation with the Cronos group and cabinet Tactis, City 2.0 program. to promote dialogue between large and small innovative. Recently, this initiative was the subject of a presentation of different projects based on the urban active involvement in the design of the cities of the future.

Map the emotions

Other applications are considered the technology of Urban Mobs. On a large interactive touch-screen, several persons may intervene or advise of upcoming or current events or share an opinion or look for a service. The public was able to discover this technology software that records, anonymously, the activity of mobile phones. The interest Create a Visual representation in 3D of the displacement of the population. "This popular emotional mapping, represented by wreaths of especially high and red light that the amount of portable in movement is high, can be very useful," provides Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of faberNovel, designer with Orange Labs of Urban Mobs. A similar tool was developed in the United States. The service is intended for the nightlife, because it identifies "hot spots" of the city. But these same data are also used to optimize the route of the bus.

The common point of these projects is based on the operation of a considerable body of data produced in real time by the citizens: sites and personal blogs, traffic, transportation, Telecom, weather and environmental data, online social networks... All these bricks can be assembled to create new services. It remains, however, more complicated, to promote the provision and sharing of information. It is precisely the objective of the city of Paris, which will soon provide a geographic information system, containing the data of road services. "We live a true revolution in the management of our cities, says Jean-Philippe Clément, responsible for mission ICT at the Mairie de Paris. It is more only to offer a service but to involve partners and people to meet their expectations. "Because"users are more satisfied to receive services, they become full actors,"provides Christophe Aguiton, researcher and sociologist at Orange Labs. The image of the "hacker" who came to steal the Vélib service Web page' to create a tool whereby we know there are bikes available to its usual station.

A testing laboratory

"Many entrepreneurs are also attracted by the possibility of using the city as a cheap testing laboratory", said Daniel Kaplan. Digital technologies associated with the intervention of people indeed allow innovators to experiment, and then launch operational services, costs also reduced as possible. And therefore reduce the risks. In this city 2.0, "barriers to innovation are lowered," adds Stéphane Distinguin." "Information and communication technologies to move physical and economic constraints in classic and new urban services can be created in a very short time."

Ultimate obstacle, the confidentiality of the data. A question to do not neglect. In the case of Urban Mobs, we ask to which belong the traces that we operate." The Subscriber or the operator ", said Christophe Aguiton. Already, under the pressure of the CNIL, the RATP had to propose an anonymous Navigo Pass, with which any trace of travel is not introduced in memory.