by Lea Hemetsberger | Jun 17, 2019 | Finland, News
The Finnish EU Presidency, starting in July 2019, has announced that it will put digitalisation of cities & communities at the centre of its 6-month EU presidency. Finland has stated that it will in particular explore the scale up of digital solutions in cities....
by Lea Hemetsberger | Jun 13, 2019 | News & Events
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 Blocks. The webinar, which takes place on 5 July 2019, will...
by Lea Hemetsberger | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog, France
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 with the three cities Bruges, Mechelen (BE) and Delft (NL), Saint-Quentin is...
by Lea Hemetsberger | Jun 12, 2019 | News & Events
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 two-day track on IoT for Smart Cities & Communities. From 17 to 21 June...
by OASC Secretariat | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog
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 this article, they share how they plan to make standards more...
by Lea Hemetsberger | May 29, 2019 | Blog, News
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 conducted by Connected Places Catapult and Open & Agile Smart Cities in order to gain a...
by OASC Secretariat | May 27, 2019 | News & Events
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 Planning, told us how exactly the organisation...
by OASC Secretariat | May 20, 2019 | Blog
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 Smart Cities”. The event provided a great opportunity to “baseline our thinking”...
by Lea Hemetsberger | May 16, 2019 | England, Press Release
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 worldwide with the mission to create a market...
by OASC Secretariat | May 14, 2019 | Blog
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 and Uruguay. In our interview at Connected Smart Cities Conference 2019...
