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A Step-by-Step Guide for a People-Centred Smart City Strategy: A Playbook for National, Regional, and Local Governments

UN-Habitat has released A Step-by-Step Guide for a People-Centred Smart City Strategy Playbook that guides policy-makers in developing people-centred smart city strategies and normative pieces in line...

Published:03 Feb 2026

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AI for Spatial Mapping and Analysis: GeoAI Toolkit for Urban Planners

This report by UN-Habitat Urban provides practical steps, tools and examples to support the application of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in urban management and urban sectors. GeoAI...

Published:03 Feb 2026

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Book: Designing Data Spaces - The Ecosystem Approach to Competitive Advantage

Editors:Boris Otto,Michael ten Hompel,Stefan WrobelThis open-access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to rep...

Published:03 Feb 2026

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Article: A roadmap for safe, regulation-compliant Living Labs for AI and digital health development

This article was written by Stephen Gilbert, Rebecca Mathias, Anett Schönfelder, Magdalena Wekenborg, Julia Steinigen-Fuchs, Anja Dillenseger, Tjalf Ziemssendoi: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7719Safe and agile e...

Published:03 Feb 2026

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Article: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in built environment design and planning – A state-of-the-art review

This article is by Haolan Zhang & Ruichuan Zhang Ph.D.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pes.2024.100040Despite numerous studies on adopting, implementing, and developing generative design approaches withi...

Published:03 Feb 2026

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Four Frameworks for Local Digital Twins (Twin4Resilience)

Four Frameworks - on Ethics, Inclusion & Democratisation, Governance, Education & Training and Technical Design - were developed in the first phase of the Twin4Resilience projec...

Published:05 Jan 2026

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Event Report: Citizen-centred innovation for green and digital cities

This report refers to the event Citizen-centred innovation for green and digital cities that took place on 30 September 2025 during the OpenLivingLab Days event. The session consisted of two part...

Published:18 Dec 2025

Organiser:Go Li.EU

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Citizen engagement Digital inclusion Capacity Building & Skills

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Policy Brief: Innovating Together – A Guide to Inclusive Regulatory Sandboxing

This policy brief emphasises the importance of including an inclusive approach in regulatory sandboxing, to ensure digital innovations deliver equitable and impactful outcomes. The document outlines t...

Published:15 Dec 2025

Organiser:European Commission

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Policies and regulation

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act Texts

The EU AI Act is the first regulation on artificial intelligence.Read more about it to ensure that your organisation remains compliant with the regulation.

Published:10 Dec 2025

Organiser:European Commission

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Policies and regulation Artificial Intelligence

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Explore the Cities Portal: your single-entry point to EU support for cities

As a first step, the EU Cities web-Portal offers a place to explore and seize opportunities offered by the EU. With its search engine, urban stakeholders are able to find information about numero...

Published:04 Dec 2025

Organiser:European Commission

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Policies and regulation Connectivity Capacity Building & Skills