Joint roundtable by International Smart Cities Network and OECD

"Shaping smart cities of all sizes" is the title of this time's roundtable after the past ones have been focussing on smart cities boosting the net-zero transition or how smart city measurment can drive post-pandemic recovery and resilience. It entails looking more closely at the breadth of smart city transitions as they increasingly also happen in smaller-sized cities, with demands for replication and scaling, or simply the prevalence of new challenges like AI-deployment, widening their (geographical) reach.

Germany, for example, has accounted for that in its funding programme for Model Projects Smart Cities (MPSC) which covers a wide variety of 73 projects with cities and sizes from large to small. Other countries are similarly concerned with fostering common good-oriented smart city development across all cities according to their needs. 

An international group of experts, practitioners and scholars from many OECD member countries will come together to understand the current state of smart city development across the international landscape and discuss and showcase strategies and solutions for digital transitions or the leveraging of AI, always with the question in mind of how and when the size of cities is a relevant factor in accounting for deployment of measures.

More information on participation can be found on the respective event page of this website.
More information on the event can be found on the respective webpage of the OECD, including a regularly updated agenda.