Datacity - The leading cities' network providing solution to the global issues

DataCity empowers mission-driven tech entrepreneurs to solve the cities' issues of 2030

We bring together cities, corporates, and startups to address city
challenges and develop solutions to build sustainable and efficient cities, using data and technology. Our motto: smart collaboration for a smart city!

PROGRAM

A 9-month open innovation program addressing persistent urban issues, from challenge definition to real on-site experimentation.

30%

of all climate actions

in C40 cities are now being delivered through city-to-city collaboration. Source: C40

Corporates

Startups

City Authorities

55%

of all actions reported by cities

have been taken through a collaborative governance typology. Source : C40

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Who is it for ?

CITIES

Define impact-driven challenges and test innovative solutions to your priorities
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Learn from and share learnings with cities facing similar issues
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Scan and engage with the corporate and startup ecosystems on city sustainability and efficiency issues
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Foster leadership on fighting climate change and increasing efficiency in urban services
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Enhance access to data and leverage private data for the benefit of public good

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STARTUPS

Gain access to international markets
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Design a new offer based on the needs of large scale stakeholders
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Work with international public and private leaders in your sector
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Accelerate your international go-to-market strategy
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Access exclusive data sets from Datacity corporate partners
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Benefit from a network of experts and mentors dedicated to your business

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CORPORATES

Co-develop and test innovative solutions to validate business opportunity and develop commercial offers
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Connect with global private and public leaders
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Strengthen your company’s leadership on innovation towards more sustainable cities
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Engage your team in an open-innovation program and gain knowledge of methodologies to accelerate problem solving
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Get a 360° overview of the startups ecosystem in your sector

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SOLUTIONS

Experiment

Collaborative parking pooling

/ Mobility /

The city of Casablanca is facing heavy issues with car parking management, mainly due to the rapid expansion of the car ownership rate in the metropolis area. Parking management has never been efficient and outsourcing of services to foreign companies does not seem to be the right solution. In this context, Michelin, in partnership…

Experiment

Enhance public transportation service…

/ Mobility /

The road accident rate within the CasaTramWay has been a major issue since the implementation of the line. The traditional attempts to reduce the accident rate has shown very few results, therefore pushing the DataCity partners to look for another approach, based on the data coming from the camera installed on the frontal part of…

Experiment

Carpooling optimisation

/ Mobility /

The transport sector in Morocco is a significant contributor to national carbon emissions. About one quarter of energy consumption in Morocco is attributed to the transport sector alone (El-Oalja, 2010). Furthermore, with regards to local air pollutants, air pollution from vehicle emissions are especially of significance in urban areas in Morocco, especially in the…

Experiment

Streamline energy consumption and…

/ Building /

In many cases, facilities managers are in charge of reading and billing electricity meters. However, on large-scale facilities with a lot of customers and turnover in occupants, retroactive hand reading and billing can result in a lack of visibility on actual energy consumption and how it is evolving over time. Against that backdrop, the…

Experiment

Optimize energy consumption in…

/ Building /

Large companies managing maintenance centers are heavy energy consumers. The energy bill rises to several million DHS per year and could be easily reduced. A challenge for large companies managing infrastructure centers such as RATP Dev (managing the CasaTramway maintenance center) is to empower the maintenance operators on their energy use in order to build…

Implemented

Big Data to predict…

/ Urban Planning /

The City of Paris has begun the renovation of seven large Parisian squares with the goal of reorienting their use in favor of pedestrians. To make public space one of tranquility, to find balance in its various usages to foster increased use by pedestrians and slow vehicles, to emphasize green spaces; such are the…

Implemented

Improve short bus trips

/ Mobility /

Commuting in big cities is often simply about short trips, across a neighborhood, by foot or by bike, on a city-sanctioned Vélib’, if you’re in Paris…Understanding the nature and the frequency of these short trips is of great interest to public actors wanting to offer the best public transport system, just like private actors wish…

Implemented

Energy consumption behavior

/ Energy /

The techniques used to control energy demand help to reduce the energy used to power a building or a region, with the aim of saving money and decreasing the size of our carbon footprint. Though these tools may help to study the habits of energy consumption among individual citizens, managers and the users of collective…

Implemented

Detection of energy anomalies

/ Building /

The technology that equips modern buildings creates new opportunities to control energy consumption, improve comfort and manage physical spaces and security. Most buildings, however, are not equipped with this technology and have only basic electricity, water and gas meters. The aim of this challenge was to leverage data to develop solutions to make these “dumb”…

Implemented

Energy pooling between buildings

/ Energy /

In most big French cities, reflecting the situation in Paris, any construction of new housing is quite limited. Efforts to streamline energy consumption must now involve the improvement of existing structures. One of the main opportunities we have identified involves the development of energy exchanges between buildings and facilities. What we’re talking about here is…

Implemented

Tracking and understanding tourist…

/ Mobility /

Paris has long been one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and tourists account for a significant portion of the people in the city at any point in time. Tourists also contribute a substantial circa €40 billion a year to its finances, and this sector is enjoying buoyant growth on the back of strong…

Implemented

Reducing power consumption

/ Building /

In many fields, a building’s occupants are not the ones who pay for the energy they consume or the ones managing and maintaining energy production facilities – but they are nevertheless in a position to behave eco-smartly and consume less, i.e. manage energy more efficiently and reduce their buildings’ environmental footprints. The building manager…

Implemented

Predictive maintenance on city…

/ Energy /

Technicians servicing street lights, traffic lights and other street furniture typically follow predetermined schedules. They work on street furniture at standard intervals, which are based on estimates of each piece of equipment’s state of wear. Data that recently became available from systems connected to this furniture, however, has opened the door to detecting and…

Implemented

Intelligent street lighting

/ Energy /

In Paris and other cities, street lights stay on at night even though they could be dimmed when there are fewer people about (to reduce their carbon footprints and light pollution) or brightened for specific events (e.g. around stadiums on match nights). This intelligent street lighting system in particular needs to cater to soft transport…

Implemented

Local electricity communities

/ Energy /

French bylaw 2016-1019 (passed on 27 July 2016) will allow communities to self-supply electricity starting in 2017. That bylaw defines community self-supply in terms of power supplies that one or more producers and one or more consumers pool, and states that said producers and consumers must belong to a single organisation, and that the power…

Implemented

Analysing travel patterns on…

/ Mobility /

It is easy to gather, analyse and use information about people’s browsing paths and profiles on the Web today, but it is difficult to track people travelling around cities on buses. The market-available solutions merely count travellers, and that information is not enough to optimise journeys in light of the number of people using specific…

Implemented

Driving urban planning through…

/ Urban Planning /

The way we think about community life is evolving, family units are changing, the ways we work, consume, travel and enjoy time out are shifting, and all this is reshaping the way we relate to cities, individually and collectively. For a city such as Paris, urban innovation is a sine-qua-non to constantly enhance its appeal…

Experiment

Reverse logistics

/ Logistics /

Parisians are ordering ever more goods and services online, entailing a commensurate increase in delivery flows and in the number vehicles on roads (trucks, vans, motorbikes, bicycles, etc.). And these vehicles often have unused space, especially when they return to their base. At the same time, more and more waste is now recoverable (batteries,…

Implemented

Sharing facilities and increasing…

/ Building /

In Paris, space is scarce and square metres are very expensive. That said, buildings and other facilities are often underused: average occupancy rates in office buildings, for example, hover around 60%. Company restaurants, for instance, are empty during most of the day whereas meeting rooms are often in short supply, and company car parks are…

Implemented

Information about waste collection…

/ Logistics /

Almost 500 trucks pull out of waste processing facilities to collect rubbish on the streets of Paris every day, but bins cluttering public areas (pavements, entrance halls, etc.) are still a common sight, either because the trucks have not yet emptied them or because nobody has returned them to storage. Paris City Council regulations state…

Implemented

City planning to simplify…

/ Logistics /

La Poste handles 3/4 of parcel traffic and the number of parcels it carried grew by 3.6% a year from 2009 to 2014, leading to a sharp rise in deliveries in cities. Requirements are also evolving (for example shoppers can now request delivery an hour after paying for their purchases). These new demands are putting…

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Testimonials

Mark Watts

CEO

C40

"Any innovations generated through DataCity and implemented in one C40 city could ultimately benefit the 90 other cities across the network and beyond. C40 are excited to work with NUMA and the next generation of startups in cities around the world on this crucial agenda."

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Jean-Philippe Clément

Chief Data Officer

City of Paris

“DataCity addressed the challenges of the modern city with new methods, and allowed Paris city hall to involve various city services to promote internal transformation of our administration”

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Riad Ziour

CEO

Open Energy

“One of the main interest of DataCity is to create an environment of trust between all partners. We worked closely with the city of Paris, Nexity or Setec. This is hugely valuable. One example of the use of the program is that we are now developing new offers with Nexity.”

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Guillaume de Saint-Marc

Senior Director CTO

CISCO

“DataCity helps us accelerate the digitization of cities and emergence of new services for public and private players”

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Our Objectives

40 cities

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in2018

300 solutions

have been implemented

in2018

300M

people have access to DataCity solutions

in2018

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“We must reinvent our cities, that is, allow all our fellow citizens to create, in complete freedom, to make way for free architectural, cultural, economic, social and societal innovation[…]. It is what we will do by also launching DataCity, an initiative backed by NUMA, the most important incubator in Paris, which will allow putting technological innovation at the service of sustainable cities.“