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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.

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.

Like a fish in water – that’s how the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) “swam” through the annual Smart City Expo in Barcelona, perhaps the world’s biggest event on urban digitalization with way over 20,000 attendees and 1000+ exhibitors. The ISCN shared keynotes on comparing German and international smart city projects, organized a little "Meet the German Cities" session, and brought back many impressions and contacts for its network in Germany and the world over.

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.

The transformation and redevelopment of the former Berlin Tegel airport into the "Urban Tech Republic" and other districts is perhaps the closest one can get to a smart greenfield development in Germany. In this ISCN Global Mixer, Stefan Höffken, the head of the project, gives an overview on their exciting plans and shares experiences on specific use cases they are developing.

In this session of the Global Mixer, Roger Fischer from the Swiss mobility data cooperative POSMO, showed us a different paradigm of binding together challenges of technology, governance and ownership for smart city solutions. What often is but a utopian first sketch, his project is trying to implement in practice.