The Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative (OASC) is a city-driven, non-profit organisation. The overall objective is to create a Smart City market. OASC was founded in January 2015 and came to life with the first wave of cities joining in March 2015. OASC continues to grow.
In 2016, the Board and the City of Toronto partnered in the creation of a Smart Cities Working Group to identify how the City can leverage information and communication technologies (ICT) and digital connectivity to enhance the quality and performance of city services, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with citizens. The working group is charged with developing an Smart asset inventory and an integrated Smart City roadmap for Toronto that incorporates local innovations and international best practices.
Smart Dublin is an initiative of the four Dublin Local Authorities to engage with smart technology providers, researchers and citizens to solve challenges and improve city life. They aim to position Dublin as a world leader in the development of new urban solutions, using open data, and with the city region as a test bed.
Objectives: Provide Better Services, Promote Innovative Solutions, Improve Economic Activity, Increase Collaboration and Engagement.
The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) is New York City's civic intelligence centre. MODA aggregates and analyses data from across city agencies to more effectively address public safety, and quality of life issues. The office uses analytical tools to prioritise risk more strategically, deliver services more efficiently, enforce laws more effectively and increase transparency. For example, during Hurricane Sandy, which displaced an eighth of NYC's population, the city's response was managed through analytics.
ZenCity is a platform for understanding people in the city on a wide scale. With the use of advanced AI algorithms, the company collects and analyzes hundreds of thousands of interactions from social media, city hotlines, and many other sources to provide stakeholders with detailed insights about how citizens view and use the city in real time.
The National Cadastre of Locally Protected Buildings is part of the Lechner Knowledge Center's "3D-based Data Infrastructure" project, funded by the European Union. The cadastre contains most of the locally protected man-made buildings. The interactive map application covers the entire area of Hungary and it can be used to locate these protected objects based on settlement, address, and parcel number. The map helps the users to get to know the values of their local environment, such as a residential buildings, sculptures and street furnitures.
The Tel-Aviv-Yafo Municipality Innovation Program, launched in 2016, is a unique program designed to generate and support innovation amongst the 12,000 employees of the municipality and its 50 municipal companies. This new and innovative program model invites 30-35 people from different departments and municipal companies to participate in a 3-month program designed to transform ideas from different municipal areas into innovative, practical projects to be adopted into urban processes, policies and programs.
DigiTel is a personalized web and mobile communication platform which provides residents with individually tailored, location-specific, life situation-based information and services.
The platform facilitates a direct and holistic connection between the city and its residents, from alerting residents to neighborhood road works to sending targeted reminders for school registration and offering discounts which facilitate access to the many cultural events taking place in the city.
The municipal geographic information system, iView, makes spatial information available to the public in a large number of spheres: engineering, transportation, community, tourism, education, art, and more.
As a resident of the city, you can view all the geographic information relevant to your neighborhood: preschools, schools, public gardens, pharmacies, community centers, outdoor sculptures, etc.
As an engineer, you can locate blocs, parcels, electricity and water infrastructures, and view a particular zoning plan and its associated documents.
As part of the city's policy to promote the accessibility and transparency of the information provided to the general public, the Municipality allows direct access to municipal databases that are not of a confidential nature. The environment enables the public and app developers to make use of information in municipal databases that deal with community affairs, culture, public health, budgets, statistical data and security. Recently Tel Aviv lunched a new Open Data site, The datasets are available in OpenData TLV, free to read, analyze and download.