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 ...

European municipalities can apply for a voucher to set up free WiFi networks in public spaces. With a call budget of EUR 51 million, the European Commission will distribute 3,400 ...

Infrastructures are conspicuous for their opacity. They merge into the fabric of the built environment and seem to disappear once they work reliably. They become visible only to experts who ...

The NGIoT project has launched a survey this week. The survey will gauge the views and collect suggestions from the European IoT community on the top priorities to be addressed ...

SynchroniCity partners Digital Catapult and Future Cities Catapult will share the latest news and insights from the project at the upcoming Smart IoT London conference on 12-13 March 2019. An industry-leading ...

By Bart Rosseau, Chief Data Officer, City of Ghent, and Tamas Erkelens, Programme Manager Data Innovation, City of Amsterdam, who are co-leading the working group on Digital Rights within Open ...

Oliveira de Azeméis, with its 70.000 inhabitants, is the most recent city to join Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC). The Portuguese OASC chapter is now counting seven member cities ...

New project launched to boost the effectiveness of the Security Union by creating synergies and to build up existing competences and demonstrable strengths to the European level. Open & Agile ...

Brussels, 8 February 2019 – After almost four years of innovation and coordination in collaborative smart city projects spanning the continents of Europe, Australia, and the Americas, a broad coalition ...

Register now for the webinar ‘Digital Building Blocks for Smart Cities’ to learn more about the digital building blocks of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme. The webinar takes place ...

Sophia Antipolis, 24 January 2019 – Press Release by ETSI. The ETSI Industry Specification Group for cross-cutting Context Information Management (ISG CIM) has just released its main specification GS CIM 009 for NGSI-LD API, particularly targeting Smart ...

Submit your IT solution by 28 February and take part in the second edition of the Sharing & Reuse Awards Contest organised as part of the European Commission’s ISA² programme ...

This year’s Connected Smart Cities Conference 2019 brought together more than 300 participants in Brussels to discuss how to “make agile the new stable”. Below you will find the recordings ...

The opening session of OASC’s annual Connected Smart Cities Conference will be available live. The stream starts on 17 January 2019 at 09:00AM (CET). Click on the video below to ...

By Omar Elloumi, Chair, Smart Cities WG, Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI); and Martin Brynskov, Chair, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC). As we enter 2019 and ...