Smart Governance

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.

The intelligent SportNzoom surveillance system in Budapest at Buda Castle was installed at the most highlighted points of the district for increasing traffic safety and to help preserving the built environment by enforcing to keep traffic rules.
A 150 m long section of the road is covered by five Box and PTZ camera pairs in Lanchid Street providing recordings sufficient for license plate recognition, while on Szentháromság Square, two pairs of cameras do the work for the whole area.

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 Amsterdam district of Zuidoost (Southeast) is 22 km2 and is home to approximately 80,000 residents. Zuidoost is a remarkably green neighbourhood with the massive lake Gaasperplas and its surrounding forest as its centrepiece. There are also many other parks, sport parks, private garden allotments and a golf course. The urban core is centred on the Ajax ArenA football stadium, Amsterdam Poort and the newly-built Bijlmer train station which together has developed into a major shopping and entertainment zone complete with cinemas and concert halls.

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 emerging neighbourhood of IJburg is Amsterdam’s youngest district. It was only in the late 1990s that the decision was made to reclaim land and start construction of the neighbourhood. IJburg has been developed with a relatively high number of houses that are suitable for families, meaning the overall population is notably young. IJburg residents also have access to the fastest public fibre optic broadband internet in the world: up and down speeds of 500Mb/s are possible on the network.

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.

Between 2014 and 2017 district of Croydon examines and evaluates the effectiveness and ROI of the state and municipal services.

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.