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Like a fish in water – that’s how the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) “swam” through the annual Smart City Expo in Barcelona, perhaps the world’s biggest event on urban digitalization with way over 20,000 attendees and 1000+ exhibitors. The ISCN…

At the 12th World Urban Forum the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) hosted the panel discussion “Unlocking Smart Cities: Is open source the key to future proof cities?”. Four international experts shared inspiring examples from the local to the…

As the host city Freiburg included a marked international perspective to its regional conference for Germany's Model Projects Smart Cities (MPSC), the ISCN and #connectedinEurope shared experiences, keynotes and a workshop session on how to enhance smart city…

The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) hosted an event on UN-Habitat’s International Guidelines on People-Centred Smart Cities at the Smart Country Convention in Berlin. The exchange encouraged municipal decision makers to assess their efforts taken in…

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…

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.

The International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) and the OECD were jointly organizing the 4th Roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth on 17 September 2024 in Paris. Under the title of "Shaping smart cities of all sizes", an international group of…

The #connectedinEurope partner cities of Geestland (DE) and Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni (GR) used their third tandem meeting to have a deep dive into the topic of LoRaWAN, including a visit to the gateway locations. The aim of both cities is to use the technology…

The cities of Basel, Freiburg and Mulhouse in the border triangle of Germany, France and Switzerland have come together in the project #connectedinEurope to work on a joint cross-border data exchange - the ‘Triregio Dataspace’.