THE DIGITAL CITY Barcelona Source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_d%27Espagne_(Barcelone) Barcelona’s innovation policy is mainlyany citizen can download public data Catalan city may have not efficiently based on open data. Catalonia passed and develop a service or app that mixescommunicated and promoted initiatives a new law on transparency and access individual data and public data. that would fall within the following to public information at the end of five dimensions: Business-Led Job 2014. The law, whose implementation In addition to fostering innovation in Creation, Welcoming of Minorities, at the level of municipal government a collective and collaborative way, Air Pollution, Recycling Services, and in Barcelona took at least three years,Barcelona City Council is paying Cultural Activities. gives citizens the right to request andspecial attention to entrepreneurship. receive public information. Barcelona Barcelona Activa, a local development Barcelona was one of the world’s first City Council has now developed a agency, supports this process by cities to have a public network of fab repository of open data: the Open Data promoting entrepreneurship and labs, which are small-scale workshops BCN portal. It includes more than 450 offering support to companies and focused on digital fabrication. Citizens open datasets on many subjects and startups. appear to be playing a vital role in the gives citizens a form of empowerment. city’s development and have many The portal has many goals, one of We awarded Barcelona above-average options to participate in change at which is to achieve transparency. scores across the majority of the grassroots levels. For these reasons, Access to and use of the data hosted eighteen dimensions. It performs Barcelona can rightly be described as on the portal is free of charge and notespecially well in technological the Digital City among our six. subject to legal restrictions. Therefore,dimensions, but it is clear that the 14 Quélin and Smadja | HEC PARIS | SMART CITIES | The sustainable program of six leading cities | 2021