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Smart citiesDigital-ready policymaking+3 topics
Last update: 06/03/2024
Smart Cities Coffee Talk Highlights
A coffee talk on the new Guidance document on organisational and cultural interoperability, was held on Tuesday March 27th, 2024, with participants from different EU Member States and beyond. The Guidance document was published in the framework of the ‘Study on organisational and cultural interoperability issues arising in local administrations when establishing local, regional or national data spaces or local digital twins’ conducted by the Directorate General DIGIT and the Directorate General CONNECT of the European Commission. The coffee talk took the form of an informal exchange on the…
European PoliciesObservatories+2 topics
Last update: 04/03/2024
Know everything about MIMs
The mission of Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) is to build a market for solutions, services, and data based on the needs of cities and communities.To achieve this mission, OASC provides a set of practical capabilities based on open technical specifications that allow cities and communities to reuse solutions. MIMs provide the technical foundation for procurement and deployment of urban data platforms and end-to-end solutions in cities & communities. Know more about MIMs and MIMs Plus (on Joinup):https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/joinup/document/minimal-interoperability-mechanisms…
Smart citieseProcurementStandardisation
Last update: 13/02/2024
NIFO coffee talk on smart cities
We are happy to announce that the NIFO coffee talks are back! The aim of these coffee talks is to highlight recent developments and good practices related to interoperability and digital transformation of public administrations, as one of the main missions of the National Interoperability Framework Observatory. This 2024 edition of the NIFO coffee talks will take a closer look at interoperability from a local and regional perspective, in particular in the frame of local digital twins and data space projects. The discussion will be centered around a recently released Guidance document…
Digital-ready policymakingSmart citieseGovernment
Last update: 30/01/2024
Interoperable Europe Act proposal and NIFO
The legislative journey of the Interoperable Europe Act proposalOn 18 November 2023, the European Parliament and the presidency of the Council, held by Spain until December 2023, have reached a provisional agreement on the proposed legislation regarding measures on a high level of public sector interoperability across the EU, commonly known as the Interoperable Europe Act. The deal has come almost one year after the adoption of the proposal by the European Commission. The proposal follows Member States’ call to strengthen European interoperability cooperation and digital transformation more…
Major Cities of Europe 2023 conference - A loom with a view - Weaving the digital future of communities, cities and regions.
Following the annual conferences in Larissa, Venice, Leipzig, Zagreb, Hamburg and numerous others in various European cities, Major Cities of Europe (www.majorcities.eu) and the Municipality of Prato are pleased to invite you to the international conference 2023 to be held in Prato, at the "Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art" (https://centropecci.it/), from 25 to 27 October 2023 with the support of the Tuscany Region and Confservizi Cispel Toscana. The golden thread: A Loom With a View -...
CollaborationEuropean Policies+7 topics
Last update: 12/06/2024
kaleidemoskop – Precise Forecasts for the Public Sector Using Digital Twins of the Society
kaleidemosop uses digital twins of the society to fascilitate data-based decision-making in the public sector.
Demography and populationDigital-ready policymaking+2 topics
MIMs Plus consists of two parts: 1. Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) MIMs (mims.oasc.io) support institutional capacity development for connected places and work around three key layers...
Smart citiesStandardisation
Last update: 04/03/2024
MIMs are tools for achieving interoperability of data, systems, and services between cities and suppliers
On 16 January 2019, the OASC Council of Cities have adopted officially the following mechanisms as OASC Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (OASC MIMs).Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) are...
Participatory urban planning, the tool for sharing programming objectives. WiseTown Crowd Planning is the platform that allows the Public Administration to activate communication with citizens...