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The living-in.EU open supporters meeting took place on the 20th December 2022 and counted with 64 participants representing companies and researchers from all over Europe. This meeting focused on the technical aspects of the digital transformation of cities and communities, in particular on data, interoperability, technical specifications and standards.
The meeting aimed to engage supporters into the work of the Living-in.EU working groups, in particular the technical subgroup and its work on the MIMs Plus (Minimum Interoperability Mechanisms Plus), opening the floor for suggestions and contributions on how to move Living-in.EU forward.
Cristina Martinez (European Commission, DG CNECT) welcomed all participants and introduced the coordinators of the several Digital Europe Programme CSAs (Coordination and Support Actions) that are working closely with Living in.EU and just started on 1st of last October.
Go.LiEU, represented by the project coordinator Gabriela Ruseva from Eurocities, is the CSA responsible for the governance of Living-in.EU, providing the secretariat and human resources. Click for a video on Living-in.eu and GO LIEU developments.
DigiNEB.eu, introduced by the Project Officer Martin Májek, is working with urban planning, design and architecture, building a digital ecosystem for NEB (New European Bauhaus) to create more sustainable and inclusive living spaces.
DS4SSCC, represented by project manager Sophie Meszaros from OASC, is working on a Data space for smart and sustainable cities and communities.
This was followed by a presentation of the living-in.EU ecosystem, highlighting the ways in which supporters can contribute, such has producing solutions to the cities needs identified by the subgroups, contribute to the work of the subgroups (representing cities or invited for specific agenda purposes).
Martin Brynskov (OASC, Coordinator of tech subgroup), points out that we cannot separate governance from technology. Before putting technology forward there is a need to understand in which terms and what already exists. The work done via Living-in.EU has been very productive at charting the landscape, identifying what exists and what are the needs. Now what are the practical steps? There is a lot of capacity in Europe, how to support it with technical infrastructure?
Thimo Thoeye (tech advisor OASC) launched a poll asking what the expectations the audience had from the MIMs were. The main replies show a desire for interoperability, standards, easy and safe exchange of data (see slide).
Michael Mulquin (OASC MIMs ambassador) explained how cities are comprised of many entities that are collecting data separately and city planners need to take data from all the different agencies in order to manage the city as a whole. This brings us to the many challenges of managing a local data sharing ecosystem, and to tackle them all together is a huge task. Cities may have limited resources in data sharing, MIMs enable them to put into place good enough systems to have a good start providing them a variety of different approaches that are interoperable amongst then. Interoperability is particularly important for federated Data spaces.
Please see image 1 (above) for the main challenges MIMs are trying to address, and their city champions.
The Technical subgroup of Living-in.EU is managing the MIMs plus, taking the MIMs into the EU policy and regulatory landscape.
The floor was open to questions from the audience:
The session was concluded encouraging everybody to contribute to the MIMs and join the technical subgroup, stressing the importance of having cities leading this joint-effort.
How to get involved in the tech subgroup work? Join the tech-subgroup, e-mail michael@oascities.org to ask about joining a subgroup, attend OASC’s CSSCC Conference - Open & Agile Smart Cities (oascities.org) on the 17th and 18th of January.
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