Projects - Sustainable cities and communities

CoreData.nyc

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

Data visualization

NYC Smart City Testbed

New York City

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

Street Activity Sensors

New York City

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

Planning for Informality

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

citymeetings.nyc

New York City

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

Mobility Data Specification (MDS)

United States of America (the)

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP)

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

City-Level Decision-Making Tool

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

Unboxed City

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

OpenLitterMap

Cork, Ireland

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

Laboratorio GovTech LATAM

Colombia

Una plataforma de innovación abierta que permite acercar nuevas soluciones digitales a los grandes retos de los municipios participantes.

Cities and Digital Human Rights

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence

Barcelona, Spain

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

City AI Connect

Johns Hopkins University

A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.

Boti

Buenos Aires

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

Smart Districts

Dublin, Ireland

Smart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.

Innovate Project Project Use Cases

London

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

Smart Cities and sensors

The Planning London Datahub

London

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

MyCity Chatbot

New York City, NY, USA

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

Transport for London and Google Maps collaborate to make cycling better

London

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

Copenhagen Solutions Lab

Copenhagen

At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, we support the development of the city through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions, that support the needs of the city and its citizens.

BLOXHUB

Copenhagen

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

DOLL Living Lab

Copenhagen

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

Nordic Smart City Network

Europe

The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainable cities.

District Civic Labs

Washington, DC

Civic innovation & equality in DC

Civic apps outfits

Urban Analyst

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

NYC Street Map

New York City, NY, USA

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

Water Data Explorer

London

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Civic maps

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative

Chicago, IL

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

Urban planning

Tow Zone Alerts

Boston, MA

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

Engaged Cities Community of Practice

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

Tvarkau miestą

Lithuania (Lietuva)

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

Kur Gyvenu

Lithuania (Lietuva)

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

Dalyvauk! Anykščiai

Lithuania (Lietuva)

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

Citify

Lithuania (Lietuva)

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

Urban planning

Open Vilnius

Vilnius, Lithuania

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

Dalyvauk! Klaipėda

Lithuania (Lietuva)

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

Dalyvauk! Vilnius

Lithuania (Lietuva)

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

Consorcio Internacional de Localidades en Acción (CILA)

Latin America

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

Partner networks and coalitions

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

C² Challenge

Denver

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

District 33 Street Tree Stewardship Map

Brooklyn, NY

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

Civic maps

Seattle By Design

Seattle, WA, United States of America

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

Municipalism Cohort Fellowship

Los Angeles, CA

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.