OASC and the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) are organising a joint webinar to give an overview of the opportunities for European cities & communities to implement so-called digital Building ...

Saint-Quentin, a city of around 56.000 inhabitants in the north of France, is exploring new ways to improve public services in the framework of the Interreg 2seas project SCIFI. Together ...

IoT Week 2019 is just around the corner, with more activities and attendees than ever. OASC, together with several partners such as SynchroniCity, IoT Forum and EUROCITIES, has organised a ...

Gard Jenssen, program lead of  Smart Fredrikstad, Norway, and Gavin Summerson, City Standards Team UK lead at Connected Places Catapult, are heading the OASC Working Group ‘City Standards Users’. In ...

In a recent survey among cities, more than half of the respondents stated that they are not particularly aware of standards for smart cities and data exchange. The survey was ...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) supports young entrepreneurs all over the world. In our interview at this year’s Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC 2019), Alexander Ntoko, Chief of Operations and ...

According to Joann O’Brien, TM Forum Head of APIs and Ecosystems, the 2019 Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC) was “a wonderful place where you bring together the full community of ...

The Greater London Authority has joined Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), an international network supporting cities and communities in their digital transition. OASC strengthens cooperation and exchange between cities ...

Creating the baselines for a digital market of replicable solutions for smart cities, the Front-Runner Smart Cities program involves over 11 cities from Europe as well as cities from Argentina ...

The OASC Council of Cities has re-elected Bart Rosseau, Chief Data Officer of Ghent, as Council of Cities Coordinator. Brigitte Lutz, Data Governance Coordinator of Vienna, is the newly elected ...

Christophe Colinet, Smart City Project Planner of Bordeaux, shares his expectations for the future of Bordeaux in our interview at this year’s Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC). Hoping to “close ...

On 2 May, procurement experts came together in Brussels to discuss the state of innovation procurement in Europe and find a solution to better reap the benefits of procuring ICT ...

On 2 May, the workshop Releasing the Power of Procurement Workshop will take place in Brussels. For those who could not make it, the European Commission offers a livestream broadcasting ...

Vice-Mayor of Porto and City Councillor for Digital Innovation and Environment Filipe Araújo shares his overall impressions and future goals in light of 2019 Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC) that ...

This spring has seen a new wave of cities & communities joining the Open & Agile Smart Cities network (OASC). The digital city network now counts 132 member cities organised ...

On 8 April, Open & Agile Smart Cities hosted a workshop to discuss the development of large-scale IoT & data marketplaces in Europe. The event was jointly organised by the ...

We live in an era of digital transformation. Since World War II, the narrative of digital transformation has been a positive one: digital technologies foster positive externalities like efficiency, wealth, ...

OASC founding institution Future Cities Catapult, a UK-based innovation agency, has teamed-up with the so-called Transport Systems Catapult to form Connected Places Catapult. The new Catapult, which came into being ...