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Final on-site meeting of #connectedinEurope in Paris

09/20/2024

On 16 September 2024, a day before the 4th OECD Roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth, the participating cities of the #connectedinEurope programme of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building met in Paris for their final on-site meeting. A packed agenda encompassed specific discussion points on datasets and digital twins, the summary of exchange activities and a collection of next steps for after the programme.

Bird view of forest monitor indicating where on a map how much biomass is still available (in tons per hectar)

#connectedinEurope: Joint online workshop on datasets

08/06/2024

The cities of the #connectedinEurope programme came together for an online-workshop on 30 July that focused on the very fundament of each smart city: Datasets.

Smart City Charter

document guideline

Spanish Version

Portuguese Version

Data Strategies for a Common Good-oriented Urban Development

document study

Year of publication: 2022

The "Data Strategies for common good-oriented urban development" are the result of an almost one and a half year working process of the National Dialogue Platform Smart Cities and its members. Within the framework of the dialogue platform, around 70 experts came together to further develop the guidelines of the Smart City Charter in an integrated dialogue.The guidelines and recommendations for action now published concretise the Smart City Charter published in 2017. They show how the potential of digitalisation can be used for integrated and sustainable urban development and how the associated challenges and risks can be countered.The aim of these guidelines and recommendations for action is to sensitise the federal government, the federal states and the municipalities to the sustainable and inclusive use of data in the context of common good-oriented urban development and to present the various dimensions of the potential of digitalisation for integrated and sustainable urban development. In seven normative guideline chapters and recommendations for action, this publication shows how the use of data can be consistently implemented for common good-oriented urban development. The guidelines are supplemented by international expert contributions and case studies that provide an insight into the current practice of digitalising urban development.