On 05/03/14 00:27, stefano de panfilis wrote: > dear juanjo, > > i have to really thank you for the effort and passion you are putting > in involving cities all over europe in our endeavour. > at this point if i well understood we will have: > - 8 cities in spain (sevilla, malaga, las palmas - why not to organise > an event there ... - santander, valencia, zaragoza, logrono and > lleida) > - 2 cities in italy (trento and torino - actually larger than valencia ...) > - 1 city in portugal (lisbon - a capital!!!) > - 1 city in finland (espoo) > > in the end it is not bad at all as we have some coverage of europe, > but also different sizes of cities, and as engineering we are > definitively in favour of your proposal. Thanks. > > beside that, i can add that very recently (last friday indeed) roma > enter in my radar. if we have few days more i can try to involve them > at this point in time with a funding of 200k as per the other italian > cities and still within the 600k assigned to italy. > > does it make sense to you and the other pcc colleagues? Makes sense, provided you move rather quickly. Cheers, -- Juanjo > > ciao, > stefano > > 2014-03-04 20:16 GMT+01:00 Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es>: >> Hi all, >> >> As you well know, 2.506.500 EURO 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 EURO 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 EURO to each of these cities, since also an >> amount of 200 K EURO 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 EURO 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 EURO 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 EURO 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 EURO >> 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 EURO ... 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 EURO of >> funding to each of this additional three cities, therefore expanding the >> funding initially assigned to cities in Spain additional 100 K EURO in total so >> that we may allocate 725 K EURO to Spanish cities instead of the 625 K EURO >> 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 EURO 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 >> >> ------------- >> Product Development and Innovation (PDI) - Telefonica Digital >> website: www.tid.es >> email: jhierro at tid.es >> twitter: twitter.com/JuanjoHierro >> >> FI-WARE (European Future Internet Core Platform) Coordinator >> and Chief Architect >> >> FI-PPP Architecture Board chairman >> >> You can follow FI-WARE at: >> website: http://www.fi-ware.eu >> facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FI-WARE/251366491587242 >> twitter: http://twitter.com/FIware >> linkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIWARE-4239932 >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Puede consultar >> nuestra política de envío y recepción de correo electrónico en el enlace >> situado más abajo. >> This message is intended exclusively for its addressee. 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