SALAR plays a significant role in supporting cities and municipalities in Sweden with digitalization and smart city initiatives such as: handshake for digitalisation; architecture, security; data-driven development; digital participation; digital infrastructure . SALAR facilitates knowledge sharing, advocates for local government interests and promotes the development of digital infrastructure and services to enhance public welfare and democratic processes. 

Contact person:

Bobo Baudin, Strategist soft digital infrastructure

The smart city team at RISE primarily focuses on developing the "soft digital infrastructure" in the cities to build technical and organisational capacity to the extent that they can “own” (become data holder), handle and share data. Specifically they work with the MIMs; the information classification tool KLASSA owned by SALAR; guidelines for procurement of IoT systems (called RefARK); and various organisational processes and tools.