This webinar, held as part of the ITU Digital Transformation Dialogues and co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Education and Capacity Building Working Group of Living-in.EU, will introduce the citiverse concept to city administrations, public authorities, and digital innovation stakeholders, including the Living-in.EU community.
The 2026 Living-in.EU Digital Assembly will take place on 15 April 2026 (9:30-12:30) in Sofia (Bulgaria), back-to-back with the Eurocities Digital Forum: Register now and save your place for the Assembly at this page!
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is organising a stakeholder consultation in preparation of the CoR opinion on "Digital simplification and Data Union Strategy", covering the following initiatives of the European Commission published last November:
As cities across Europe continue to digitalise public services, mobility systems, governance mechanisms, and citizen engagement, understanding and accessing EU funding opportunities becomes increasingly essential. Programmes such as Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme, NetZeroCities, and the New European Bauhaus support cities to accelerate digital and green transformation through funding, capacity building, and cross-border collaboration.
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 with the People-Centred Smart City Approach of UN-Habitat.
For national, regional and local governments, city leaders and 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.
The Local Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Communities (LDT4SSC) initiative has officially launched its second round of Open Calls: Potential stakeholders can now inform themselves about the calls and receive support at a dedicated info session.
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This article was written by Stephen Gilbert, Rebecca Mathias, Anett Schönfelder, Magdalena Wekenborg,
This article is by Haolan Zhang & Ruichuan Zhang Ph.D.
