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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 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 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.

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’.

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.

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 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.