To create confidence and facilitate understanding and uptake of the FIWARE concepts, tools and overall offering, an important aspect is the capability to properly capture and “market” success stories and lessons learned so far both in Europe and Mexico. The ambition is creating a better understanding of what are the critical success factors, as well as risks and challenges to be accounted for, in order to indicate to innovators in Mexico how to follow up on effective uptake of FIWARE as key component of their innovation development life-cycle.

FIWARE success stories in selected domains have been analyzed, with specific attention to Smart Cities/Security, Transport, Health and Energy, which are the vertical domains FIWARE Mexico is focusing on.

The Open and Agile Smart Cities initiative was launched on March’15 to accelerate the adoption of common standards for global smart city development. So far, 89 cities from 19 European Countries, Latin America and Asia-Pacific have joined to take advantage of the potential of cities to create jobs and growth, by deploying innovative and replicable solutions increasing the competitiveness of businesses (market), avoiding vendor lock-in (competition).