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Digital tools are reshaping emergency response in Lemgo, where a location tracking solution uses real-time maps of incidents and team positions to make coordination easier, more reliable, and transferable to other regions.

With its new "ISCN Spotlight" format, the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) brings together invited experts from 4-5 different countries and regions of the world for a dedicated practical exchange on current smart city topics. Focus topic of the first edition: The development of urban digital twins (UDT).

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’.

Alba Iulia and Arnsberg are celebrating in 2024 the 50th anniversary of their municipal partnership. Through their tandem activities in #connectedinEurope they enhanced their mutual cooperations with a smart city lens, ultimately with the ambition for a joint project to link some of their open data to each other.

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.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Enoh Tabak and Sandra Schett from the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) presented the outcomes of the #connectedinEurope project. Discover how peer-to-peer exchanges among 12 European cities have driven smart city development through collaborative efforts in areas such as digital twins, data spaces, and open data exchange.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Serena Mombelli and Patricio Reyes from vCity, a platform led by the Data Analytics and Visualization Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, shared insights on how data-driven analysis can support human-centred urban planning and policy-making. In this session they present a use case approximating in greater detail whether high-risk groups have adequate access to Barcelona's climate shelters during heatwaves.

The ISCN is organizing jointly with the OECD a roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth. An international group of distinguished speakers and stakeholders of smart city development will come together in Paris on september 17th. It will discuss the current state of digital transitions in cities, how to leverage AI for sustainable urban development and how to translate further vision into action for successful digital transitions in cities of all sizes.

In this edition of the Global Mixer of the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN), Lena Plikat and Julian Kath from the TUMI project (Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative) showcased the TUMI Mobility Data Hub a platform to which municipalities the world over can link themselves to facilitate common-good oriented analysis of mobility globally.