How Greater Lyon is using IoT to create open innovation ecosystems

Lyon was the first city in France to create a dedicated position of Chief Digital Officer (CDO), followed by Paris. How are other French cities looking at Greater Lyon’s CDO model in terms of their own governance?

Lyon’s originality lies in its creation of a department which deals with the entire digital life cycle: the creation of administration services (legacy), the creation of user services, governance of general interest data in the area, digital development in the area and open innovation to take advantage of digital opportunities in the transformation of public policies.

Digital technology is no longer seen as a resource function but as a public policy in its own right, with the dev...