TENDER CHALLEGES /
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Description of the challenge and of the envisaged solution(s)
The City of Issy-les-Moulineaux is committed to the Paris Agreement and to become a near zero-emission city by 2050. Already in 2021, the City Council decided to adopt a climate budget inspired by the experimentation carried out in Oslo. The climate budget is an annual planning tool helping public decision-makers (notably from the Sustainable City department) to design policies that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The budget’s annual objectives are set in a multi-stakeholder action plan involving public actors, citizens, and economic partners. In 2023, the City managed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 7.6%, according to the targets set out in the climate budget. Detailed results are here: https://data.issy.com/pages/tableau-debord-climatique/.
Another, very related initiative in the City of Issy-les-Moulineaux is the Zero Carbon Challenge where citizens are directly involved in weekly activities helping reduce their carbon footprint, including changing their consumption habits. Around 100 citizens participate each year in the challenge, who are made aware of the various projects included in it by public workshops organised during the period of the challenge, at the presence of representatives from the Municipality and other public or private actors. These workshops usually adopt the Living Lab methodology – Issy-les-Moulineaux is a historical partner of ENoLL, the European Network of Living Labs (https://enoll.org/) – to allow citizens expressing their views and ask for changes, if any. Other important
stakeholders involved are the different departments of the City, including the IT and Sustainable City departments, as well as Issy Média and local associations. Since the launch year of the Zero Carbon Challenge, approximately 500 citizens have joined its community. With a population of 70,000 inhabitants, this represents less than 1% of the potential target. Though it is utopian to have 100% of the citizens participating, increasing this 1% ratio seems possible as well as crucial to raise the intensity of the fight against climate change. A recognised bottleneck is due to the logistics of the onsite workshops, which poses a ceiling to the number of participants. If the workshops in question were held online, this limitation would no longer be applicable.
Solutions envisaged
socio-technical systems based on smart combinations of software (such as IT platforms and apps) and hardware (such as IoT sensors, mobile and desktop devices) that help amplify existing initiatives to promote the net zero transition of the City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, bringing them on a greater scale and
improving their efficiency, quality and effectiveness.
These solutions should:
1. Obtain more accurate and up-to-date information at the local level, with a focus on automation and cost control. This means that they should facilitate access to data collected in real-time or almost in real-time and update of existing data. The citizens participating in the Zero Carbon Challenge can consult their data without troubles in understanding it. This can also allow the Municipality to monitor the success and setbacks of activities and adapt them according to their achievements.
2. Enlarge citizen participation to the Zero Carbon Challenge. The goal is to make the initiative accessible to more participants while keeping it up as an engaging and personalized experience. The solutions should overcome the restrictions of the physical workshops while maintaining their pedagogical relevance. Innovative uses of data collected during the different steps of the challenge can contribute to the growth of a broader audience and help identify which workshops should be moved online to ensure better participation.
3. Maintain citizen’s engagement across time. Participants should be accompanied to change their daily habits in a sustainable fashion. Participants and the general public should be able to observe and understand the positive impacts of their efforts. The Sustainable City department also would like to develop an inter-city challenge where participants from different cities would compare their respective efforts towards the fulfilment of the challenge.
Information on the location of the experimentation
The city of Prijedor is a local community with about 90,000 inhabitants. About 75% of the population, or about 70,000 inhabitants, is covered by the services of the public utility company. About 50% of the coverage of the local community is in rural areas where the services of public utility companies are not fully available. The project will be implemented in two or more selected urban areas of the city of Prijedor, implying the implementation of measures whose main goal is to create assumptions for increasing the amount of selectively collected waste.
General intention is to involve at least two specific urban parts of the city – one characterised by a relatively high density of residential multiple-floor buildings, and the other characterised by a relatively high density of single-family homes. This will enable better understanding of the specificities, similarities and differences of the residents’ behavioural patterns in selective waste collection.
Specific requirements include one or more of the points below
• Solutions that achieve datasets creation, possibly including data acquisition by IoT sensors and the collection of real time climate data;
• Solutions that allow relevant data visualisations, both for remote monitoring purposes and to improve decision making;
• Solutions that use French as leading language;
• Solutions that include guidelines on how to use the technologies and services provided;
• Solutions that are freely accessible and operational 24/7;
• Solutions that are promptly available as applications (for smartphones and tablet PCs, on Android and/or IOS operating systems);
• Solutions that embed gamification aspects;
• Solutions that embed educational aspects, such as general or specific advice on how to improve personal behaviours, understand data visualisations, etc.
In the case the solutions are successfully deployed and proven beneficial for the city’s needs, a long-term collaboration will be established with Issy-les-Moulineaux as a privileged client.
Minimum requirements
Data usage
“The solution should at least rely on the following datasets”: See points 2-3-4 below.
Data acquisition
“The provider should at least acquire the following datasets”: Relevant datasets provided by other cities with similar approaches to the citizens as in the Zero Carbon Challenge.
Data availability
“The provider should at least use the following datasets made available by the City”: Relevant datasets available on the public platform: data.issy.com.
Data generation
“The solution should at least generate the following datasets”:
- Data on citizen participation to the online and physical workshops of the Zero Carbon Challenge
- Estimated carbon footprint of the citizens participating in the Challenge (see point 9 below).
Data visualisation
“The solution should at least enable visualisation of the following datasets:”
- Estimated waste production per participant
- Estimate GHG emission per participant
Socio-technical solution A
“The active engagement of citizens/users should at least be ensured during the 9 months of experimentation”
Socio-technical solution B
“The way active engagement of citizens will contribute to a better performance of the solution should be described in detail”
Socio-technical solution C
“A minimum number of 300 citizens should be engaged by the provider during the 9 months of experimentation”
Socio-technical solution D
“The solution should at least demonstrate impacts on the following citizen/user behaviours”:
- Participation in the Zero Carbon Challenge workshops
- Change of behaviours that reduce waste production
- Change of behaviours that reduce GHG emissions.
Socio-technical solution E
“The provider should involve at least two of the following local stakeholders during the 9 months of experimentation”: Citizens, Sustainable City Department, Innovation and Communication Agency of Issy-les-Moulineaux, IT Department of the City, Startups providing data for the climate budget, Study Office of the climate budget, Associations involved in the zero-carbon challenge.
Interoperability
“The solution should at least be interoperable with the following existing IT systems”: IT system in place in the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux, OpenDataSoft (provider of the public data portal of the City: data.issy.com).
Privacy
“Use of the solution should not imply the release of personal data unless for specific and motivated purposes”
Sandbox
“The provider should specify which rules/regulations should be temporarily lifted for the purpose of the experimentation”
Scalability
“The provider should specify how the solution can be scaled from the site of experimentation to the broad City level”
Transferability
“The provider should specify the conditions under which the same solution can be adopted by other Cities with similar challenges”
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