open data platform

Forum Virium Helsinki is an innovation unit within the Helsinki City organization. It develops new digital services in cooperation with companies, other City of Helsinki units and residents. Our objective is to build better city services, create new business opportunities as well as open up new contacts for international markets. Forum Virium Helsinki’s development projects drive the creation of digital city services. From the very start, ideas under development are tested as part of users’ everyday lives. Another goal is to create new business opportunities for companies.

Terézváros, Budapest has made a heritage and information map of the district. The map shows every building in the district. Selecting a building shows its year of construction, its architect and an image gallery with multiple views of the building. 

The municipality of Budapest's 2nd district provides several mandatory and voluntary services to its communities, and while fulfilling these duties, large sets of data are created about the district. With the widespread use of information technologies, most of these are available digitally. In the European Union's program supporting regional development and cummunity cohesion, in accordance with eEurope's information policy goals, the integration and reuse of these data to support  and improve local SME competitiveness is a high priority.

The district of Nieuw-West is a solid demographical representation of Amsterdam and an area with high energy consumption. Notably, however, the area is home to the first district-level Smart Grid in the Netherlands. Amsterdam Smart City partner Liander has invested significantly in this technology in recent years. The Smart Grid in Nieuw-West serves as the ideal backbone to realise new renewable energy sources, with decentralised energy generation taking the lead role.

The application is an information system realised based on the government decree 324/2013 (VIII.29) defining the unified electronic infrastructure registry (e-infra). The e-infra platform provides information on the availability and position of infrastructure and utility lines based on address and land registry title queries. The data provided identifies the operators of the lines with their contact information.

ÉTDR, the electronic documentation system supporting building permission processes, is an e-administration service enabling digital submitting and processing of planning permissions and related documents during the approval process.