[Fiware-pcc] IMPORTANT and URGENT: Connection of Smart Cities to FI-Lab within Amendment 6

[Yaron Wolfsthal]

The redistribution will clearly benefit the project and represents a 
sounds assessment of where we are where we want/need to go.

IBM supports.

Yaron



From:   Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>
To:     "fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu" <fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu>, 
Date:   04/03/2014 09:16 PM
Subject:        [Fiware-pcc] IMPORTANT and URGENT: Connection of Smart 
Cities to FI-Lab within Amendment 6
Sent by:        fiware-pcc-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu



Hi all,

  As you well know, 2.506.500 ? of funding were assigned in Amendment 5 to 
activities aimed at connecting smart cities to FI-Lab.     It was also 
agreed in one of our PCC meetings that this funding would be roughly 
distributed in four so that it were assigned to the four major countries 
in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Spain) where we thought we could find 
good candidate cities for this connection to FI-Lab, meaning aprox 625 K? 
of funding per country.

  As per now, not very much progress has been achieved neither in Germany 
nor France, in the latter case mostly devoted to constrains motivated by 
the fact that this would all fit too close to municipal elections which 
slow things down.    Although I understand recently from Thierry that a 
deal with Nice may be closed, it doesn't seem like the whole amount of 
funding in principle assigned to French cities would be used.   In the 
case of Germany, no particular progress has been made and some initial 
contact we made with Berlin didn't give results.

  Fortunately, we received expression of interests from other cities with 
which we have been able to materialize a deal.  They were the cities of 
Espoo in Finland (involving VTT) as well as Lisbon in Portugal.    We have 
initially booked a funding of 200 K? to each of these cities, since also 
an amount of 200 K? was assigned to the cities of Trento and Torino in 
Italy.

  On the other hand, the expressions of interest from cities in Spain have 
surpassed our expectations to the extend that we had to go for assigning 
just 100 K? to fund the activities dealing with connection of each city. 
With this adjustments, we have been able to cope with the somehow 
compromise to reward those cities which have make an investment on FI-Lab: 
 Sevilla, Málaga, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santander.     The former 
three have movilized investment on physical infrastructure to support 
FI-Lab of up to 500 K? each, and Santander has also donated some servers 
that, among other things, have been critical to support the operation of 
FI-Lab until the new servers acquired by Red.es (with the 1,5 M? of 
funding coming from the first three cities) arrived.

  The good (and bad) news is that additional Spanish cities are knocking 
the door and it has became quite hard to distribute the aprox remaining 
225 K? among the ones that request to be connected to FI-Lab.    I'm proud 
(and also worried) to tell you that one of them would be Valencia, which 
is the third city in Spain with more than 800.000 inhabitants ...   We 
would like to assign them another 100 K? ... but then we have another 
three relevant cities in the row (Zaragoza with more than 700.000 
inhabitants, Logroño with more than 150.000 inhabitants and LLeida with 
more than 130.000 inhabitants).

  We would kindly ask members of the PCC to allow us to assign 75 K? of 
funding to each of this additional three cities, therefore expanding the 
funding initially assigned to cities in Spain additional 100 K? in total 
so that we may allocate 725 K? to Spanish cities instead of the 625 K? 
initially assigned.

  I believe that a reasonable rationale that would justify this decision 
is that four of the cities have contributed to the project in higher level 
than the received funding.    As I have told you before, an investment of 
aprox. 1,5 M? in hardware has been movilized thanks to Sevilla, Málaga and 
now Las Palmas, while Santander has donated the ability to use some 
additional servers.

  Note that even with this extension of the funding allocated to Spanish 
cities connected to FI-Lab, we are still below the overall allocated 
funding for this misssion.   Actually, despite we have been able to manage 
a deal with Lisbon and Espoo, and maybe funding for Nice may be allocated, 
not all the funding has been consumed.   This is something that worries me 
because we may actually find difficulties executing this part of the 
funding. 

  I would rather appreciate a positive response.    I kindly ask you to 
answer soon to this request as to be able to close the amendment soon.

  Best regards,

-- Juanjo

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