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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.

Discover how open geospatial collaboration is transforming community-led urban development in Freetown. Learn how SDI’s partnership approach unlocks new ways to use spatial data for more equitable and resilient cities.

In this session of the Global Mixer, we learned how local communities in Freetown are using drones and open data to map their city — building skills, opportunity, and smarter urban planning along the way.

In this session of the Global Mixer, we discovered how Smart City Mannheim uses artificial intelligence and sensor data to create a real-time microclimate model — producing a living digital picture of the city’s climate.

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.