Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

the share of fossil fuels in its procurement mix is substantial: 57% natural gas,26% coal, 10% nuclear power, 6% RES, and 1% oil in 2008. While the detailsof its decarbonization plan are still unclear, the company has suggested thata potential investment of approximately three billion euros. Initial effortswill likely include the replacement of older coal burning condensing plants,located in Helsinki’s periphery, with new wood chip fired plants.D3.5 ICT-Smart City PotentialFinland is regarded as a leading centre for information and communicationstechnology (ICT) innovation, and by most measures, the world's mostICT-dependent country. Nokia, representing 2.2% of GDP, drives much of thisinnovation by investing as much as a third of Finland's total R&D volume intoICT. As a result, ICT is a central focus of the service and technology sectorsthat are producing a workforce geared toward meeting growing tech demand.Given projections from a recent study by the Global e-Sustainability Initiativesighting a potential 15% reduction in global emissions from ICT-drivenenergy efficiency gains, Finland is well positioned to build capacity in emergingmarkets and make progress on emissions targets by retooling its tech sectorsto focus on climate change over communications equipment.Firms such as GE, IBM and Siemens are piloting ICT-driven Smart Citiesapproaches in Seoul, Delhi, Zagreb, Stockholm, London, New York, and SanFrancisco among others.From the CommonCurrent blog comes this summary of areas of activityand some of the firms involved. Others are added from the Smart 2020Project:➢ Healthcare process integration: Ericsson➢ Traffic congestion monitoring and pricing systems: IBM, CapitaGroup➢ Water (leakage detection, purification): IBM, Siemens➢ Buildings (sense-and-respond monitoring): Johnson Controls, Siemens,IBM➢ Public transportation and logistics: PwC, Samsung, Cisco➢ Telecommuting, shared offices and TelePresence: Cisco, Hewlett-Packard,Sun➢ Home & office appliances with smart grid energy applications: GE,AT&T, Whirlpool➢ Smart grids: GE, Schneider Electric, SAP, Oracle, ABB➢ Energy monitoring/management tools: Google➢ Urban data centres: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco➢ Carbon inventories and carbon accounting: Microsoft, OracleThe breadth of the issues listed not only reveals complexity of reachinga 15% reduction by employing ICT systems, but also illustrates the scale ofpotential opportunities.243