FIWARE Mexico produced a tangible range of good practices, expertise and knowledge transfer, along with significant assets, including privileged relationships between the FIWARE communities in Europe and Mexico, which contributes to achieve sustainable long-term impacts, and thus to keep the legacy of the project alive.
A number of training programmes on FIWARE have been designed and implemented across Mexico, including a Train the Trainers programme and specific programmes for Developers and Integrators, as well as for Software and Hardware contributors that were successfully completed. As a result, a network of more than 650 Mexican trainers, developers, integrators and contributors have been trained in FIWARE, which contributes to the propagation of the use of FIWARE technologies in Mexico and thus put the basis for a long-term EU-Mexico collaboration in FIWARE.
In parallel, three Working Groups on key thematic areas were established: Industry, Research and Education and Users, which support the uptake of FIWARE technologies in Mexico. Currently more than 30 experts from Europe and Mexico with highly-relevant credentials in the project’s subject matter are members of the WGs. Through the Open FIWARE Camps MX-EU and engagement activities with the WGs core members, FIWARE Mexico has expanded its expertise base and brought to fruition the objectives of the project. Feedback and opinions from members of the WGs have been incorporated into the Input Papers that include business and policy recommendations to enhance the EU-Mexico collaboration in FIWARE.
To support the strategy for EU-Mexico cooperation in FIWARE and broadly in the ICT domain, FIWARE Mexico project has identified ICT priority topics for future cooperation between Mexico and Europe in connection with 5 FIWARE domains (health, energy, smart cities, security and industry 4.0). Furthermore, FIWARE Mexico provides Guidelines for ICT Roadmapping with recommendations to the bilateral dialogue on ST&I for future EU-Mexico collaboration in the ICT domain, as well as a roadmap establishing future steps towards México-EU collaboration in FIWARE.
Furthermore, the FIWARE Mexico comprehensive communication and dissemination strategy helps to broadcast the project updates and deliver the knowledge and know-how to the right target groups. Altogether, these activities increased the visibility of the project, the influence of project events and stimulate engagement among Mexican actors.
In addition, through a comprehensive and coordinated set of actions developed during the project lifecycle, FIWARE Mexico has created strong coordination, networking and liaisons with the local Mexican ICT ecosystem and the international FIWARE community. Actually, there are promising signs of the progressive adoption of FIWARE not only in Mexico but in other Latin America countries (Uruguay and Chile), which contributes to the expansion of FIWARE worldwide.
