N.Kroes, here.
From the speech:
From the speech:
"Take the city of Stockholm for example. They have plenty of traffic monitoring cameras and sensors that so far only look at car number plates. How about turning their eye towards weather and road conditions or other challenges? Those are all crucial issues in Nordic countries. What if we also create a platform that allows that information to be shared and analysed? So that anyone from the city council to software developers in Cyprus could make a new economic activity based on this information?
As the PPP model is an open model we expect that users will play a key role in driving application-led innovation - with investment by all actors, notably industry, in Internet access infrastructure, in sensor and data technology and in Internet services applications for public and private sector, for consumer and citizens, such as agriculture, port management, energy and online content. So through its multiplier effect, the value created for Europeans will be much larger than the €300 million the Commission has assigned to this programme, which is matched by the industry partners in the FI-PPP programme."
As the PPP model is an open model we expect that users will play a key role in driving application-led innovation - with investment by all actors, notably industry, in Internet access infrastructure, in sensor and data technology and in Internet services applications for public and private sector, for consumer and citizens, such as agriculture, port management, energy and online content. So through its multiplier effect, the value created for Europeans will be much larger than the €300 million the Commission has assigned to this programme, which is matched by the industry partners in the FI-PPP programme."
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