[Fiware-platinum-members] IMPORTANT: Wish to you our discussions with World Economic Forum and help us position FIWARE in front of the G20 and policy makers?

[Juanjo Hierro]

Dear members of the FIWARE Foundation,

   As you know, FIWARE isgrowing in adoption by cities around the globe 
as we speak. *Three major achievements have consolidated the position of 
FIWARE as open source initiative driving the definition of "de facto" 
standards for Smart Cities, Communities and Territories*:

**

  * *

    The European Comission (EC) ¡formally adopted FIWARE Context Broker
    technology (the core of any"Powered by FIWARE" architecture
    <https://www.fiware.org/developers/catalogue/>) asCEF Building Block
    <https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/Context+Broker>within
    theirDigital CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) program
    <https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Digital+Home>.
      This is particularly relevant because this means it will become a
    technology the EC recommends Public Administration of European Union
    (EU) member states (hence, also Smart Cities, Communities and
    Territories) to adopt in order to foster development of digital
    services which can be replicated (ported) across the EU. This is
    becoming also relevant outside the EU because governments perceive
    that the adoption of FIWARE is less risky, since a big player like
    the EC has made a strategic bet on it.

  *

    FIWARE NGSI (the integration API supported by the FIWARE Context
    Broker) is the basis of the NGSI-LD API specifications
    <https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/CIM/001_099/004/01.01.01_60/gs_CIM004v010101p.pdf>published
    by ETSI this year. This represents a major milestone since cities
    can refer to an open specification supported by a reputed global
    standardization body like ETSI in their Public Procurement processes.

    *

**

  * *TM Forum and the FIWARE Foundation launched theFront-runner Smart
    Cities Collaboration Program
    <https://www.tmforum.org/press-and-news/fiware-foundation-tm-forum-launch-front-runner-smart-cities-program/>last
    year at the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona
    which is targeted to provide a collaboration framework where cities
    (and their technologies partners) can join efforts towards
    definition of a "Powered by FIWARE" Reference Architecture for Smart
    Cities as well as the definition of standard Common Information
    Models compatible with FIWARE NGSI API. This set of models start
    with the well-known suite of FIWARE Common Information Models
    <https://www.fiware.org/developers/data-models/>which have already
    been defined by the FIWARE Foundation in collaboration with Cities
    and have been adopted by multiple Cities. With TMForum we are also
    developing the basis for the support of a Data Economy by Cities and
    their transformation into platforms (City as a Platform).*

   Going a step further, *we would like to complement and reinforce 
these achievements through creation of a Smart City showcases program 
focused on development of showcases* involving real cities and their 
technology partners across the world.  Such showcases would proof how 
applications developed for cities that have adopted FIWARE and standard 
Common Information Models will more easily interoperate each other and 
will be easier to replicate from one city to another, with little 
adaptation effort.   We intend that some of these showcases will work 
*with minimum one city of at least all the countries of the G20* (we 
know we can do more than those in the G20).  Others will be demonstrated 
at least with two different cities in two different countries.

*Ambition is that a selection of these showcases will be presented at 
the Smart City Expo World Congress 2019, **November 19-21 in Barcelona* 
*and will also help to position FIWARE within the context of current 
conversations we are running with the World Economic Forum, towards 
creation of a Global Smart City coalition*.   Relevantly, the Smart 
Cities topic has become a major topic within the G20 so our ambition is 
to be able to position FIWARE during G20-related discussions and, 
leveraging on the mentioned showcases, be present at the *G20 Summit 
taking place in 2020 in Riyadh*.

   For this to happen, we need the active engagement of members of the 
FIWARE Foundation in the program.  Although the FIWARE Foundation may 
cover some costs, particularly related to presentation of the showcases 
in relevant fairs, events and meetings, or creation of certain marketing 
material, we understand this may mean some investment on their side.   
However, since the ambition is that development of showcases follow a 
driven-by-implementation approach, we expect that your contribution can 
be connected and therefore exploit synergies with activities you already 
have in place with real cities, ideally solutions already in operation, 
otherwise at least pilots.

**Some background about the discussion with the World Economic Forum and 
the description of these Smart Cities showcases program as well as 
initial details regarding the call for contributions is provided in the 
presentation you can download using the following link 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BaUOBpjMSCWgbBvzshBInZAOLNcvL5Is/view?usp=sharing>. 


   Further details about the program and conditions to participate will 
be given during the "Front-runner Smart Cities" workshop that will be 
run on May 22, from 09:00am to 10:30am during our next FIWARE Summit, 
May 21-22 in Genoa <https://www.fiware.org/summit/>.  Main reason is 
that we expect that defined showcases will help to demonstrate the power 
of already adopted FIWARE Common Information Models to  be adopted 
within the initiative, as well as drive the adoption of new models.

   Look forward meeting you in Genoa!

   Cheers,

-- 
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Juanjo Hierro
Chief Technology Officer
juanjose.hierro at fiware.org <mailto:juanjose.hierro at fiware.org>
www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhierro>
Twitter: @fiware <https://twitter.com/fiware> @JuanjoHierro 
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