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BerlinTXL, the transformation of a former airport into a pioneering sustainble and digitally-driven urban quarter remains one of Germany's few and exciting "greenfield developments" in the Smart City space. With this session we want to update the…

Digital tools are reshaping emergency response in Lemgo, where a location tracking solution uses real-time maps of incidents and team positions to make coordination easier, more reliable, and transferable to other regions.

The term "Smart City" continues to elicit both fascination and skepticism for many people. How can we thus better communicate common good-oriented Smart City measures? This Online Advisory Programme (OAP) of the International Smart Cities Network looked at…

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer the city of Halle (Saale) presented their Digital Twin project HAL-Plan. Katja Gehrmann and Albert Steinbach gave insights into the key components of the solution and the toolsets they derive from the twin in the areas…

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Shanmathi Rajkumar and Paul Stadelhofer from TU Dresden presented the U_CAN project, which supports Ukraine’s transition to carbon-neutral and smart urban development. U_CAN, funded by the European Union’s Horizon…

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.

XPlanung is the data standard and data exchange format for IT procedures relating to spatial planning, state and regional planning, urban land use planning and landscape planning in Germany. It enables the transfer of planning data between different IT…

Urban mining is a circular economy approach that aims for systematically reusing waste as a resource, instead of disposing it. In this ISCN Global Mixer, Tanya Tsui from the MIT Senseable Amsterdam Lab illustrates how AI can be used to close material cycles…

The transformation and redevelopment of the former Berlin Tegel airport into the "Urban Tech Republic" and other districts is perhaps the closest one can get to a smart greenfield development in Germany. In this ISCN Global Mixer, Stefan Höffken, the head…