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.
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 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.
As part of the Digital Cities project dissemination activities, the first of a series of webinars was held in Manchester, UK on June 22-23 2009, at Manchester Town Hall. The event focused of how Next Generation Broadband can support the development of Digital Cities, using best practice examples from across Europe. Video from the event Read more »
Vivid discussion between participants took place on the topic of the evident problems of the low ICT adoption rate by non-metropolitan and geographically isolated local authorities, as compared to the local authorities of the INeC consortium.
The Digital Cities project Steering Committee meeting took place in Malta, April 7-8, 2009.
