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

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital rights
• Data governance

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

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

• city
• Decent work and economic growth
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• city
• WhatsApp
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

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

• neighborhoods
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

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

• cycling
• city
• Google

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Public Private Partnerships

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

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

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

• city
• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Urban planning

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.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Partner networks and coalitions

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs
• Hubs

Civic innovation & equality in DC

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic apps outfits

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

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).

• Clean water and sanitation
• city
• rivers

• Civic maps

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

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

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

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

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

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

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.

• mass transit
• mobility
• city

• Urban planning

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

• urban planning
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

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)

• trees
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design
• Co-design

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.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• city
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• city
• Gender Equality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital transformation

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

• Life below water
• city
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Find a job or hire someone

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives

We break the silos of urbanist practices to build Black power and Black joy.

• racial equity
• city
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Urban planning
• Manifestos