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In this session of the Global Mixer, learn how local communities in Freetown are using drones and open data to map their city — building skills, opportunity, and smarter urban planning along the way.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer we have a fresh and hands-on perspective on managing large crowds and traffic during major events like sports and concerts in smart cities. It's a complex task, but Mönchengladbach shows in his Nordpark area how IoT-driven Smart City solutions can create safer, more sustainable, and livable urban spaces with the proper approaches.

The city of Leipzig has established with its Data Week a “forum for Data and AI enthusiasts”. And it hosted a session with the ISCN and the Namibian town of Lüderitz to discuss how smart city use cases and approaches can be kickstarted globally, even with limited resources.

How do young people the world over approach issues in smart cities? The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) tried to find out with its "ISCN Smart City University Challenge". Students from Canada, Germany and the Netherlands tackled in sprints the question of how to illuminate "known unknowns" with data in the city.

The cities of Basel, Freiburg and Mulhouse in the border triangle of Germany, France and Switzerland have come together in the project #connectedinEurope to work on a joint cross-border data exchange - the ‘Triregio Dataspace’.

The city of Krefeld developed as an agile participant of the #connectedinEurope programme many connections and took the opportunity, as the host of the 6th Borderland Conference (Grenzlandkonferenz), to exchange on smart city topics with Dutch and German cities.

The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) and the OECD were jointly organizing the 4th Roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth on 17 September 2024 in Paris. Under the title of "Shaping smart cities of all sizes", an international group of experts came together to discuss and showcase strategies and solutions.

The cities of the #connectedinEurope programme came together for an online-workshop on 30 July that focused on the very fundament of each smart city: Datasets.

The final online workshop of the #connectedinEurope project took place in December. The participating municipalities exchanged views on possibilities for continuation and scaling, and explored further project threads. The #CIE cities will continue working together on the common-good-oriented development of smart cities and regions in the future.