Dear all, Orange agrees to allocate additional funding (100k€) to the Spanish cities. BR THierry De : fiware-pcc-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu [mailto:fiware-pcc-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu] De la part de Juanjo Hierro Envoyé : mardi 4 mars 2014 20:17 À : fiware-pcc at lists.fi-ware.eu Objet : [Fiware-pcc] IMPORTANT and URGENT: Connection of Smart Cities to FI-Lab within Amendment 6 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. 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