Josep Jordana will explain, "What is Pirene Lab" in 8 minutes in the Speaker's Corner at PodCamp Barcelona.
What is Pirene Lab?
A Living Lab. A space for digital and social innovation based on design thinking and user centred creation in the context of a mountain region. A mixture between a training centre, an investigation centre and an incubator for business and social initiatives.
Mountain regions require their own solutions, and not just technological ones. Broadband Internet connection arrived in many the villages of the Pyrenees just a year ago. It is low quality, expensive and there are still "holes". Open and distributed models, as opposed to centralised models, are not just an option but a necessity.
The Internet of things, devices and sensors, one of the next evolutions of Internet requires a special interpretation in mountain regions, small agricultural operations with animals, the importance of the atmospheric temperature, land management and cultural patrimony etc
Ecosystem and sustainability, fashionable terms these days, are a historical reality in these zones. The urban and the rural have much to share and exchange.
