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The ISCN sourced from its network a practical smart city challenge and 8 universities and their student courses from 5 countries and 3 continents responded with more than 40 ideas! The challenge revolved around conceptualizing data reuse to enhance insights stemming from citizen-reporting tools.

The Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB) jointly supports smart cities in Germany and worldwide in the dialogue between politics, administration, business, science and civil society. Get to know the community and the services of the Smart City Dialogue and get in touch with us.

Democracy is under pressure, in municipalities and beyond. In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer we want to look at the status quo of digital citizen participation in (smart) cities. Join us as we get a first-hand update from Decidim, one of the plattforms and communities with the biggest legacy creating multi-faceted digital participation and decisionmaking by, from and for the people.

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 term "Smart City" continues to elicit both fascination and skepticism for many people. How can we thus better communicate common good-oriented Smart City measures? This Online Advisory Programme (OAP) of the International Smart Cities Network looked at refreshing and applicable approaches and learnings from Toronto, Porto and Regensburg – and witnessed a live-fork of a presented solution!

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Martin Bangratz from RWTH Aachen presented the research project “Digital City-makers” and gave insights into the role of grassroots initiatives in shaping the life and development of cities.

How to make the comprehensive experiences in smart city development tangible and portable so that others can take them up easily? In this ISCN Global Mixer, Dr Beate Ginzel and Elisabeth Breitenstein from Leipzig present their Digital Playbook as a living document and invite all of us to be “copycats” in using and remixing the playbook and feeding back into future drafts!

On our journey to develop common good-oriented Smart Cities, one still often overlooked place full of “smartness” sits within our very cities and communities – universities and higher education! In this event we want to examine in more detail how public administrations and universities can seek fruitful cooperations and projects to advance their smart city trajectory.