Open Innovation at Miskolc Sample Clauses

Open Innovation at Miskolc. The city of Miskolc joined the STORM CLOUDS project with a significant delay, which was partly a disadvantage, as the city of Miskolc had to reach the result of the project within a shorter period of time, on the other hand it was an advantage as well because other members of the project had already established certain conventions for example in the field of documentation. We could gain support for the project in Miskolc within a relatively short period of time. Following this, forming the circle of stakeholders proved to be more difficult or rather time-consuming. In the beginning the people involved (stakeholders) were less aware of the meaning of the term „Information cloud”. It seemed that everybody had some kind of concept associated with this term but it had different meanings for each participant. There were people to whom it meant a server in a distant, unknown land whereas to other people the term Cloud outlined a server farm in the United States. In most cases it meant something that might be a risk to our applications and data. When convincing those in doubt a significant reason was that the applications will be placed in a European data center. (within the EU) Throughout the development of STORMCLOUDS project the people involved (stakeholders) could get a clear vision of the cloud technology as well as of the advantages and disadvantages of moving information services into clouds. Although it was originally planned, the citizens of Miskolc were eventually not involved in the project. Its main reason was that the citizens were generally not aware of the outlined technology, therefore they had no wish to take part in the project. We assume that associations formed by citizens did not answer our invitation due to similar reasons. Following the formation of the group of stakeholders, Miskolc Holding Plc. – as a technical partner of the Municipality – took part in the fulfilment of the project. We managed to gain the support of political leaders in the first round for the STORM CLOUDS project as well as for the chosen applications. While the Miskolc Holding Plc. was approaching the solution for “Cloudification”, the participants were more and more aware of the advantages of it. Although the process was a bit delayed, between December 2016 and February 2017 all the stakeholders reported about positive experience and positive expectancies. From time to time the Miskolc Holding Plc. was slightly left alone during the project, but when reaching each mil...