eCulture enriched Smart Cities

Lightning Talk
Jens Bley, eCultureLab@HCU, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany

eCulture enriched Smart Cities

eCulture enriches Smart Cities. Various stakeholders are in pursuit of enabling citizens to access culture in an active, participatory and non-discriminatory way with digital means. But how can these diverse stakeholders cooperate from a municipal, cultural and commercial point of view? This presentation will highlight initiatives that integrate eCulture into smart city models. A special focus will be on the integration of cultural content into smart cities services, especially for tourists and citizens.

Jens Bley is Managing Partner at Living Labs Germany that engages as co-producer of innovative mobile and web based services in the urban environment, focusing on the private-public domains of eCulture, mTourism and digital mobility. The mission: enabling partners with relevant content and unique services to create value for citizens, tourists as well as other knowledge or service seekers. Living Labs Germany produces the eCulture Dialogue Hamburg and is initiating cooperation partner for the TEDxHamburg conferences. Jens has moderated and presented at various eCulture / museum innovation conferences and events.

Jens Bley was co-founder and president of one of the first internet agencies in Germany which he later sold to an US based eBusiness strategy group. Thereafter he was Managing Director of an award winning edutainment company, developing and producing children’s media (television, audio books, print magazine) in cooperation with National Geographic. He has been teaching content business as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts Berlin for almost a decade and holds graduate degrees from the University of Arts Berlin and University of Florida, where he was a Fulbright scholar.