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The ISCN hosted a first Franco-German exchange on AI usage specifically in urban development. As a side event on the Smart Country Convention 2025 in Berlin, it brought together many experts and practitioners for knowledge exchange, networking and conceptual alignment.

How do municipalities in other countries measure whether smart city measures are really working? From the ITU's Smart City KPIs to Japanese quality of life indicators - international systems show how cities can measure progress based on data. In this blog post, the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) presents approaches that local authorities in your country can use for their own impact measurement.

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.

One of the core innovations around Open Data is always the content of what is being openly published and how it's being made use of. In this session of the ISCN Global Mixer we want to look at how Open data can drive more inclusive policies, as shown by care economy indicator systems in Mexico City and Buenos Aires and reuse cases from the Global South.

In this session of the ISCN Global Mixer we look at a digital twin prototype for Tshwane in South Africa that shows how real-time data and optimised routes can cut costs and emissions, transforming waste management in resource-limited settings!

In this session of the ISCN Global Mixer we will look at the Citiverse in Korea, an immersive approach with which the country is advancing its Smart Cities and which puts people at the center of urban innovation. Pilot projects like Seoul’s Metaverse Government Platform test how digitalization can foster inclusive governance, new services, and richer citizen engagement.

In this ISCN Global Mixer looked at how the city of Ingolstadt managed to turbocharge their publication of Open Data through AI. Over 200 government datasets are now openly accessible there, thanks to an AI-driven approach that boosts transparency, resource efficiency, and compliance with the EU Directive on High-Value Datasets.

In this session of the ISCN Global Mixer we looked at research from the SmartCity Living Lab of DFKI, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, that demonstrates the potential of data-driven urban solutions, highlighting benefits for municipalities and remaining hurdles.

Join us for an inspiring international exchange on how AI is shaping the future of smart cities and urban development in a common good-oriented manner – with insights drawn from Germany’s “Model Projects Smart City” programme and other initiatives, as well as projects on urban AI in France.

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.