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Where exactly to intervene with nature-based solutions in your city, so to best improve its resilience against climate risks? And how to link to financing? This episode of the ISCN Global Mixer showcased Trees-as-Infrastructure, a project that aspires to answer this crucial question for our urban futures systematically.

The Coordination and Transfer Office Model Projects Smart Cities (KTS) is at the Smart City World Expo in Barcelona and is presenting a session on the first half of the "Model Projects Smart Cities" funding programme.

The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) hosted an event on UN-Habitat’s International Guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities at the Smart Country Convention in Berlin. The exchange encouraged municipal decision makers to assess their efforts taken in developing their towns and villages into smart cities in the light of the UN-Habitat Smart City Guidelines.

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.

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.

During the Smart Country Convention 2024 in Berlin, the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) will hold a side event and open "working session" on the road towards UN Habitat's development of guidelines on people-centred smart cities.

Smart Cities will only be sustainable if they nurture and enhance their green (and blue) infrastructure. This Online Advisory Programme (OAP) of the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) will dive deeper into measures that try to skillfully and meaningfully combine the realms of technology and nature for a greener common good-oriented urban development.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer Dr. Haris Piplas and Minu Tegethoff from Drees & Sommer shared insights from urban labs in six Indian cities that are promoting data-driven urban development and implementing gender-balanced governance business models.

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.