BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs
• Innovation teams and labs

The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainable cities.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Smart Cities and sensors

At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, we support the development of the city through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions, that support the needs of the city and its citizens.

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• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

Civic innovation & equality in DC

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic apps outfits

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
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• rivers

• Civic maps

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

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• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• city

• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• city
• Gender Equality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• city
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
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• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

• Life below water
• city
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone
• Socialize online

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• city

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Urban planning
• Manifestos

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

This standard explains what you need to do to make your web content and services accessible. We need to design and build services and content that everyone can access and understand.

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• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

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• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Hubs

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

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• Get funding
• Connectivity

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

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• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data