Digital Cities is a three-year project that focuses on the problem of the low ICT adoption by European local authorities in non-metropolitan areas, geographically isolated areas and other areas of social exclusion.
The Digital Cities project has been looking at best practices on offer by the different members of the team. Working closely with two of the partners – the City of Brasov, Romania and the City of Paralimni, Cyprus, the project has sharing the lessons learnt from the fibre broadband initiative in Almere, Netherlands and the e-Governance project, Read more »
Inside this issue: Learn how Cities are taking on the challenge of developing their ICT infrastructure and hear about some of the challenges and solutions during this process. We also hear from the project’s emerging partners and their how they will build on the lesson’s being learnt by colleagues from Almere, Netherlands and Trikala, Greece. Read more »
In March, partners from Brasov in Romania and Paralimni in Cyprus visited Manchester, UK. This study visit was an opportunity for partners to experience first-hand, examples of user driven innovation and see how organisations such as, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) and Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) have applied this approach to their work. The visit Read more »
2011 starts in earnest, as the DC Planner toolkit (DCPT) nears its completion. The DCPT is based on an integrated Decision Support Methodology (DCM) focused on supporting regions and local authorities in developing ICT capabilities. The DCM is designed to support authorities at strategic level by recommending appropriate examples from existing best practices in the Read more »
Colleagues from the Digital Cities project share their thoughts and views about the project. Some colleagues from the lead partner countries discuss their views of Digital Cities, what it means to them and the importance of ICT in the current climate. Digital Cities (Interreg IVC) Partners from MDDA on Vimeo. Here’s what our emerging partners Read more »
The Digital Cities team met up for the third time in the city of Jesenik, Czech Republic. The meeting combined a two-day knowledge sharing workshop and time for the project team to review their current progress. The focus of the workshop was e-health and e-democracy, with partners from Almere Kennisstad (Netherlands) and e-Trikala (Greece) demonstrating examples of best practice from the cities.
The Digital Cities holistic framework is taking shape. As the project enters its second year, we have now established a structured process to support users to address the challenges faced when tackling low level ICT adoption. The project consortium have been working together to develop a greater level of understanding of these challenges, by building Read more »
The European eGovernment Awards contest comprises an initiative of the European Commission to stimulate innovation by identifying best practice examples using information and communication technologies in public sector organisations.
The 1st International Workshop on Digital Cities was held in Istanbul, in conjunction with the 2009 eChallenges Conference, on October 21st.
Malta has been placed first in an EU benchmarking exercise of e-government services.
