[Fiware-coaches] Evaluating FIWARE relevance in Accelerator open-calls

[Franck Le Gall]

Dear all,

I had a telco with the FICHE accelerator which was asking me about the evaluation criteria to be included in their open-call in relation with the use of enablers.

It would be good that within the coaches, we share a common strategy for the evaluation of the "FIWARE relevance" of received proposals.

My view of FIWARE is that a large part of its added value does not come from the GEs taken individually but rather from their integration. This is the basis of my proposed scale:

In their first step (FICHE plan 3 increasing investment steps, with the SMEs being filtered at each step) proposal template, they have one section related to the use of enablers in which proposers have 3000 characters to defend their position.  FICHE asked me for screening strategy to quickly rank the proposals in respect with the planned usage of GEs. A more detailed evaluation would be used for the 2nd step.

So very few details will be  provided by proposers and the time to analyse each of the proposals will be kept minimum. As a fast ranking strategy for this step 1, I then suggested the following ranking scale:


1.       No enablers used > disqualified

2.       1 enabler used > acceptable but this must be strongly documented

o   The GE must be tightly integrated with the solution of the company;

o   Justification of why adding this GE rather than 3rd party solutions should be detailed

3.       Several enablers used > explain how integration will take place

o   Announcing the use of several disconnected enablers is possible. Then each should be justified as for case 1

o   Preferred solution is the use of several integrated enablers. Justification

For the 2nd step, we could start from the questionnaire which was proposed by Juanjo at some point (I welcome the link again).


Have you started anything on your side worth to be shared ? What do you think about the options shown above ?
Should we encourage the use of FI-lab at that stage ?

Kind regards
Franck



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