“Digital district heating networks” obviously do not mean we will be heating digits in the future ("Throw a few more bytes on the fire, Mike, and it will flare up"). But what does it imply then? Well, 'digital district heating networks', written in full 'the digitalisation of heating by using heat networks as a transport medium', are essentially the addition of an information and communication layer on top of the infrastructure of district heating networks, with a high degree of connectivity between the various infrastructure elements.
En janvier 2020, la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen a déclaré: “pour être un acteur géopolitique, il faut pouvoir être garant de sa souveraineté technologique”. Un an plus tard, on est loin du compte… Très loin du compte si l’on en juge par cette anecdote. Vendredi dernier, les 27 ministres de la défense de l’Union européenne étaient réunis en visio-conférence avec le Haut représentant pour les affaires étrangères et la politique de sécurité, Josep Borell. Au milieu de la conférence, un jeune homme en t-shirt noir est apparu sur l’écran des ministres. Borell s’est étonné: “Vous savez que vous venez de faire irruption dans une conférence secrète”. L’intrus a tout de suite décliné son identité: Daniel Verlaan, journaliste de la chaîne de télévision RTL Pays-Bas. Il a fait une démonstration magistrale de la faiblesse du dispositif sécurisant les échanges européens.
A new research facility will explore the fair uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in Amsterdam, the municipality announced on Tuesday. Five researchers will be studying the application of artificial intelligence in the fields of education, welfare, the environment, mobility and health in a new lab at Amsterdam Science Park.
The FIWARE Energy Day brought together private and public businesses, academia, and developers to learn about how standards are driving the development and integration of Smart Energy solutions and platforms. Discover how the once direct value chain is now transforming itself into complex ecosystems facilitated through Open Source strategies. Consumers are becoming prosumers. Supply and demand are optimized in real-time and at a very granular level. The need for flexibility has, therefore, grown notably with the innovations of renewable energy resources, batteries, power electronics, electric mobility, blockchain, and rapid digitalization. The FIWARE Energy Day showcases European projects, global developments, business model innovations with FIWARE.
Data-driven smart cities are rapidly emerging across various parts of the world, becoming more attractive places to live. These cities are heavily reliant on open data and yet, in reality, data is still published in an unusable way for the majority of data analysis that needs to take place.
In his recent study "Spatial Information and the Legibility of Urban Form: Big Data in Urban Morphology" urban planner and University of Southern California professor Geoff Boeing discusses urban exploration based on big data and argues that raw data has no pragmatic application, asserting that it is necessary to translate and compress large quantities of data in order to produce valuable, legible information that can be accessed and understood by the general public. Basing his work on the visual relevance of planning, his article analyzes the collaboration between two programs to transform data into simplified information. The first program he looks at is OpenStreetMap (OSM), a worldwide cartography community and online geospatial information system that serves as a free-access high quality database of the world's urban street networks. The second program, OSMnx, is a Python packet for analyzing data that allows researchers and other professionals to easily download information on streets, buildings, and services, automatically transforming the information into graphics. These are just two examples of massive amounts of data being rendered into images and comprehensive maps.
How can we digitalize our cities in the most efficient way? Should we? The panel discusses how urban governance can benefit from a digital transition and the void created when technology backfires.
We, decision makers at all levels of government together with organisations and networks of cities and communities of all sizes1, believe that strong cooperation through multi-level governance in the EU and co-creation with citizens are key to our mission of turning our cities and communities into smart and sustainable places where people enjoy living and working. We aim for a cohesive, digital Europe, where every community can enjoy the economic and social benefits of this transformation, while making sure not to leave anyone behind2. We therefore underline the need for sufficient public and private investment in digital services, technologies, infrastructures and skills to achieve this goal.
In the era of digital technology, data is becoming a key resource for urban governance and a major political and legal challenge for public institutions, which are destabilized by the rise of new players – specifically from the platform economy. The increasing production of data is the source of numerous challenges for public and private actors alike, especially as regards the accumulation and use of data and the creation of value that can be derived from it. La Fabrique de la Cité spoke with Antoine Courmont, researcher in political science, scientific director of the Cities and tech Chair at Sciences Po, and co-author of Gouverner la ville numérique (Governing the digital city), a book published in August 2019.
Marcelline Bonneau, URBACT Thematic Programme Expert, says URBACT cities have seized their opportunity to develop local economies and governance models.
Participation in European networks is key to the advancement of cities as ecosystems of technological transformation according to the final report of the Digital Cities Challenge, ‘Designing Digital Transformation Strategies for EU Cities in the 21st Century’. The report published today by European Commission’s Directorate General GROW and Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) provides an in-depth analysis of the lessons learnt from the two-year project which brought 40 cities together in a network of collaboration to boost digital transformation in their cities.
Qu'est-ce que la révolution numérique fait à la ville ? Hors de toute régulation politique, plateformes, données et algorithmes bouleversent les pratiques spatiales et collectives. Un nouveau livre de la collection Puf/Vie des idées enquête sur les implications urbaines des applications. Gouverner la ville numérique. Puf/Vie des idées, août 2019, 9, 50 €. Ouvrage coordonné par Antoine Courmont, politiste et responsable scientifique de la chaire « Villes et numérique », et Patrick Le Galès, directeur de (...)
To promote the digital development of Heidelberg, the Digital-Agentur Heidelberg was founded. The agency's goal is to develop sustainable, intelligent, and digital urban development in the context of the urban ecosystem consisting of research, industry, small and medium-sized businesses, and stakeholders. With the Heidelberg City Kompass, citizens are able to access the most important information from the city via a web portal corresponding use cases from various fields of action, including the environment, health, and mobility.
France's Ecological Transition Minister Barbara Pompili and the Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O, unveiled on Tuesday (23 February) the government's national strategy to bring environmental and digital issues together. EURACTIV France was able to see the document before publication.
Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous le troisième volet de nos travaux sur l’impact environnemental du numérique : « Déployer la sobriété numérique ». Nos deux premiers rapports, « Lean ICT – Pour une sobriété numérique » (2018) et « Climat : l’insoutenable impact de la vidéo en ligne » (2019), nous ont permis de définir notre vision du concept de sobriété numérique. Les constats ainsi établis ont alimenté, notamment grâce à la production de chiffres, une prise de conscience de l’importance de l’empreinte environnementale du numérique, de son augmentation préoccupante et des raisons systémiques qui conduisent à cette situation. Ce troisième rapport vise à proposer des cadres méthodologiques opérationnels pour mettre en place la sobriété numérique : dans les stratégies et politiques publiques, dans l’entreprise, dans les systèmes d’usages du domaine privé.
The main topic for the German Presidency - starting today – is the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. In its presidency programme, the German government promises to use the crisis in order to question the current status quo and to better prepare for the future. Topics prioritised in the programme are climate change, digitalisation and a changing work environment. The Coalition for Energy Savings shares three comments on the programme of the German Council Presidency, on building renovations, carbon pricing, and sustainable digitalisation.
The Slovak city of Trnava has come up with a new and innovative way to approach its youngest citizens – namely by relying on their hobbies in order to get them involved in the administration’s activities. The city’s project means to bring together one of the most popular games in the world, Minecraft, and local children’s interest in the city to create an exciting competition for them that will also earn them prizes. Minecraft is a block-builder game, much like old-school LEGOs, but in the virtual world. The game ranks among the most played ones in the world and is especially popular among children as it allows them to unleash their creative spirits.
The Digital Twin concept is the latest technology dominating the smart city hype cycle. While the technology has already been around for decades in engineering, thanks to more powerful processing and cloud storage, it has now entered the realm of city planning.
Blockchain has long been seen as an important tool to support initiatives focusing on social impact, and today there are hundreds of organisations around the world looking to implement blockchain in areas ranging from banking the unbanked and providing identity services for vulnerable populations to protecting land rights and combating climate change. At our “Use cases for in social impact” workshop, held in Barcelona on 30 January, 2020, we took a deep dive into the subject with a number of practitioners working on the front lines of blockchain for good. Below are some highlights from the day.
The EU Green Deal “needs digitalisation as an enabler for decarbonisation” in all sectors of the economy, including transport and energy, the European Commission says in a draft policy document, seen by EURACTIV.
Calls for action on the climate emergency have reached a crescendo with the COP25 in Madrid. It is good to see the new Commission re-claiming EU’s leadership in climate technology with the Green Deal. But for a faster energy transition, it is not enough just to have more renewables, writes Hanno Schoklitsch.
ESPON policy brief "Digital Innovation in urban environments" aims to help European, national, regional and urban authorities, businesses, academia and citizens to better understand how digitalisation and new technologies can be harnessed. It also supports discussions surrounding digital innovation in cities and urban policy during the EU Finnish Presidency
La smart city est un écosystème numérique. Les outils de supervision et hypervision ainsi que les bases de données s’y développent afin d’accompagner la transition énergétique et proposer des nouveaux services aux habitants de la ville. Certains industriels ont développé leur propre outil, les grands acteurs mondiaux de l’informatique se sont aussi placés sur le marché, chacun mettant l’accent sur un besoin particulier de la smart city et de l’aménagement urbain. Tour d’horizon des principales plateformes à la disposition des villes du futur.
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