ICT4Water Action Group "Business Models" (BM)
Actions related to this group from the “Digital Water Action Plan”:
1) Further developing digital water business models for different smart approaches (Smart Cities, Smart Agriculture, Smart Industry)
2) Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Water ICT
3) Developing tools for assessing the maturity, costs and benefits of smart water deployments including performance benchmarking
Action Group news
Linking Digital Water to EU policies for the twin green and digital transition.
ICT4Water cluster event, June 21, 2023, 9:00 – 11:00, Brussels, BluePoint
On June 21, members of the ICT4Water cluster, policy makers from various DGs, and other professionals gathered in a session to discuss the linkage of digital water to EU policies. The session was part of Water Project Europe, one of a series of events organised by Water Europe and attracted over 50 people. Continued
ICT4Water special side-event at Water Innovation Europe 2023
On June 21, the ICT4Water cluster will host a special side-event to Water Innovation Europe (WIE) 2023. This year’s conference focuses on putting water at the heart of our next European Commission’s programme and next years’ plans by deploying a strategy to build a European Water-Smart Society. The focus of the ICT4Water event will be on the digital transition for the water sector. Central in the discussion will be the updated Action Plan and the latest developments in its six thematic areas, being:
- Enable Data Sharing
- Intelligent and Smart Systems
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Actor Engagement and Co-creation
- Policies
- Business Models
The event will take place at BluePoint in Brussels on June 21. For more information and registration check https://watereurope.eu/events/water-innovation-europe/
Flash Report: Water Projects Europe 2022
THE EU DIGITAL TRANSITION FOR THE WATER SECTOR IN THE EU GREEN FUTURE CHALLENGES, PRESSURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
THE NEW ICT4WATER ACTION PLAN
Hybrid workshop
October 19, 2022, 9:00 – 13:00, Brussels, BluePoint
On October 19, members of the ICT4Water cluster, policy makers from various DGs, and other professionals gathered in a workshop to discuss the digital transition for the water sector and the cluster’s activities and plans for the next few years. The workshop was part of Water Projects Europe, one of a series of events organised by Water Europe. The hybrid workshop attracted about 50 people who attended physically and an online audience who participated remotely.
Andrea Rubini welcomed the participants on behalf of Water Europe and stressed the good relation between Water Europe and the ICT4Water cluster. Continued
Business models for digital water solutions
The Business Models Action Group has published a study named “Business models for digital water solutions – A study on the development of business models of digital solutions related to ICT4Water cluster projects“.
Throughout the last eight years, the ICT4WATER cluster and its member projects have designed, developed and successfully demonstrated several solutions fostering the digital transition in the water sector. While some of these developments can be found at commercial level, in other cases the ideas do not reach the market. This is due to several reasons, being one of them that the value that these project ideas capture, both financially and environmentally, for customers and stakeholders (e.g. citizens, water utilities, managers and policy makers), it is not made sufficiently or explicitly clear. Thus, the purpose of this report is to understand how business models can effectively support digital water solutions. For this, we have developed a methodology to identify the minimum characteristics and structural elements of financially and environmentally sustainable business models that digital water solutions must have and how to recognize them. The final goal of this methodology, designed to highlight the value of a digital water solution, is twofold: on one hand increase knowledge and help project members and any aspiring innovators when designing their business models; and on the other, assist EASME, and the policy DGs in navigating along digital water business models and assessing their potential. This study uses ICT4Water cluster projects as reference sources and analyses 11 business models that convey the value proposition of the digitalization in the water sector. The methodology created and benchmarked within the cluster projects includes four key aspects or “dimensions” to consider in any business model: what, who, how and why.
The study can be downloaded from the Publications Office of the EU.