Exploring and addressing the challenges of urban social ecosystems has gained focus, with various initiatives aiming at combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development. Several European cities have already deployed sophisticated ICT infrastructures as a means to offer added-value services to their citizens, in order to cope with societal challenges while…
EPIC: European Platform for Intelligent Cities
The EPIC platform will combine the industrial strength of IBM’s ‘Smart City’ vision and cloud computing infrastructure with the knowledge and expertise of leading European Living Labs’ such as Apollon partners IBBT Brussels, ISSY-Media and Manchester to ensure development of a European ‘innovation ecosystem’ that provides an extensive range of…