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‘City of Tequila gears up for a smart future’ wins Use Case of the Month for March 2022! Congratulation to our Community Member Hitachi Vantara ( @Christian Dornacher , @claire Price ). The Use Case was chosen as Use Case of the Month as the city was able to leverage the power of big data to work towards their vision of overall betterment of the city with better job opportunities, better use of resources, support for local businesses and to maximise connectivity, mobility and accessibility Read more about the Use Case here and upload your own for a chance to win future Use Case of the Month awards!
Event location: Berlin, Germany
Administration and economy hand in hand for a common good-oriented digital urban development - how does that work together? Why should it? Can monetized data help municipalities solve their challenges? What role should private companies take in this? We want to discuss with you: Take part in our DKSR network event "#DataForGood oder #DatenFürGeld?" on April 7th - live on site in Berlin! Eva Schweitzer (Division Digital City, Risk Prevention and Traffic at the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development BBSR), Patrick Blume (Mercedes-Benz AG), Zehra Öztürk (Office for IT and Digitization, Senate Chancellery Hamburg), Sonja Spürkmann (Berliner Stadtreinigung BSR) and Philipp Wilimzig (Smart Village Solutions SVS GmbH) will be there to answer our burning questions. Over the course of the evening we want to debate when and why cooperation between municipalities and private companies makes sense for data-based urban development - and how it can be designed to benefit everyone involved. For more information and to register for the event (both in German), go here: www.dksr.city/anmeldung-dataforgood/ . We look forward to seeing you – and to an exciting discussion!
Drones and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are increasingly being used across multiple industries and businesses, from powerline and infrastructure inspection to medical deliveries and search and rescue operations. Due to the emergence of multiple innovative technologies there is a need for a city's authorities to engage with this growing industry to understand its needs, the benefits it can provide the local authority, and what all stakeholders need to do to enable this technology in a safe and secure way. A city's land is a valuable asset. Whether you're looking to provide a means to encourage drone or eVTOL users to fly from your land with your permission, or you have land you need to protect, we can help. GuardianUTM Enterprise enables landowners to quickly represent their estates on maps, and to set access policies ("fly here", "don't fly there") and even automate decision making for no, low or fixed or variable costs according to your own schedules. Our simple user interfaces makes it quick, easy and simple for you to: Set up your city on our maps Publish access policies Set access/processing fees if appropriate Manage requests for access If you want to learn more, please get in touch!
2022 the City of Leipzig enters the second round with the organisation of the innovation competition with the title „Smart City Challenge Leipzig“ . Founders, start-ups, students and established ventures are called to find innovative digital solutions for predetermined questions and challenges in the areas of civil society and municipal administration. For each challenge, three submitted solutions and ideas from start-ups are selected to be further developed with the municipality. Afterwards the best of these three ideas will be implemented and practically tested. Each applicant selected for the first step of further development of the submitted idea will receive 2.000 EUR (gross price). The finalists of the implementation phase will receive 25.000 EUR (gross price) each to practically test the idea. The deadline for submission of applications is 08.04.2022 . The competition is realised in cooperation with the Smart City Infrastructure Hub Leipzig and fits seamlessly into the existing activities of Leipzig’s start-up ecosystem. Benefits of taking part at the Smart City Challenge Leipzig The winners get the chance to further develop and implement their ideas and business models with the municipality. This creates an attractive environment for innovations and supports the start-up location of Leipzig. Moreover, participants gain access to an attractive network of founders. With the Smart City Challenge Leipzig new synergies and impulses for joint cooperation and projects will arise between start-ups and established ventures. The Smart City Challenge enables the municipality to test and implement digital innovations in the form of pilot projects as a solution for municipal and social challenges. The range of pilot projects to be implemented with start-ups reach from new products, processes to new digital services. The exchange between municipality and civil society leads towards an open mind-set for innovations and supports the digital transformation process. The topics of the Smart City Challenge 2022 are: “Sustainable mobility bonus for Leipzig”, “Digital metering, monitoring and low-threshold information for users of public buildings” and “Leipzig Municipal Libraries: Online ordering system for class sets and media boxes”. Detailed information about each challenge, the conditions of the competition and the application process can be found on digitalcampus.leipzig.de/sccl-2022-en/ .
Happy International Women's Day! At BABLE, we believe that a sustainable future cannot be achieved without a culture of diversity and inclusion at every level, and are really proud to celebrate today our dedicated colleagues who are constantly driving the change for a better urban life. 14 women, 11 countries and 5 continents : here are the Frauen | wanawake | femmes | نساء | kadınlar | umu nwayi | mujeres | mahilaye | women of BABLE!
The bidding process for the 10th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns is now open. All cities are warmly invited to bid to host this flagship event. The purpose of this key ICLEI Europe conference series is to share the most advanced approaches, tools and inspiring ideas for local transformation, to foster governance innovation, and to strengthen local value chains and assets. It will facilitate dialogue on local sustainability agendas across governance levels and with relevant stakeholders from business, NGOs and research. The core event will run for a maximum of three days in a hybrid format (on-site and online), leaving open the possibility for pre-events and side events. The next host will join a list that includes previous host cities such as Aalborg 1994, Lisbon 1996, Hanover 2000, Aalborg 2004, Seville 2007, Dunkirk 2010, Geneva 2013, the Basque Country 2016 and Mannheim 2020. Find out more here !
If you are (like us) wondering how to best support Ukraine, please have a look at this link . If you are councillor, you can endorse this statement by The Council of European Municipalities and Regions . As a company dedicated to drive the change for a better future, we at BABLE express our support for all victims of the Ukrainian-Russian war. We stand with Ukraine and engage in humanitarian support as well as pledge to support the rebuilding of its cities.
Link to online event: Digital in March & in person in June in Berlin!
Digital Warm-up for LMCL Berlin on 2nd March, 10:00 am, direct link to login here lastmilecitylogistics.digital Last mile topics will dicussed in Berlin, 29-30 Juni, 2022. We believe, that collaboration is key for sustainable solutions on the last mile. Therefore we invite stakeholders of the last mile like logistic companies, real estate operators, city & neighborhood developers, solution providers for micro hubs, micro mobility and software and those who need to have parcels delivered like eCommerce companies and retail traders to Berlin!! Basic information lastmilecitylogistics.com
The very first episode of Smart in the City - The BABLE Podcast is out! Travel with us to Copenhagen, Denmark , and listen to inspiring and insightful stories about the city's Smart City ecosystem from Rikke Peterson and Anders Sloth Nielsen from Copenhagen Capacity , as well as Martine Reinhold Kildeby from BLOXHUB . We created this podcast to inspire, facilitate and exchange knowledge between relevant stakeholders in the urban context. We will bring in experts with unique perspectives on Smart City topics to inspire by telling stories about the journey towards a better urban life. Make sure to listen to this episode and to subscribe to Smart in the City on Spotify , Deezer , Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts or Amazon Music to not miss the next ones to come!
(Click here to find the German version of this request.) To German municipalities and municipal companies: Your city is facing huge tasks - and you want to know if and how you can tackle them with digital solutions? Then get smart and take part in our Discovery Challenge! Digitization offers enormous opportunities to shape cities and regions for citizens in a sustainable and common good-oriented way - through the strategic use of urban data. In a first step towards data-based urban development, the Data Competence Center for Cities and Regions DKSR and Motius want to help municipalities and municipal companies to turn their abstract challenges into concrete questions - and to jointly find a first concept for the digital solution of your tasks. What do you get? As part of the Challenge, we will collect current tasks and challenges from your municipality. We will work on up to three of the submitted challenges in a digital workshop in March (date to be determined with the participants) together with the winners and turn them into a concrete question in order to then develop the first steps towards a data-based answer. At the end of the workshop, you will receive a solution outline including estimation of efforts and a proposal for next action steps. Important: This does not commit you to implement a solution together with us! What do we need from you? We are looking for the challenges of your city - be it the attractive design of public transport, fast alert of citizens in case of storms, or the reduction of CO2 emitted by the city hall. Send us your challenges, formulated in a "How might we..."-question: How might we make streets better to encourage more citizens to bike? How might we use existing weather data to quickly notify citizens in the event of flooding? Feel free to send your questions to Tim at DKSR citing your name, organization, and city or municipality via cleffmann@dksr.city . Up to five submitted questions per applicant are possible. Deadline for submissions is March 11, 2022 (midnight). You have questions or comments? Feel free to contact Tim ( cleffmann@dksr.city ) or Philipp ( philipp.menn@motius.de ). We look forward to your challenge - and to working together on a data-based solution! You can find the competition slider with further information here (German language). We are looking forward to your questions - and to work on digital answers together!
Cork Healthy Cities and volunteer partners are looking for companies that are not only improving urban life with their external activities but also improving and becoming authentically more 'green' on their internal processes as well. They would like to get some companies to hold up as examples in the business community, that are not greenwashing but instead making real impactful steps on conducting business and making their workspaces more sustainable. Does this sound like your business? Please get in touch!
An expression of interest call for German and European cities/municipalities. Join the #connectedinEurope project to take part in Peer-Learning Partnerships and get inspired! Core activities include: - creation of networks between German and European cities working on urban digital transformation - knowledge sharing sessions with up to two meetings per year, over a period of three years (2022-2024) - research in the form of case studies focused on barriers and drivers for sustainable and digital urban development on the local level Interested in participating? Apply directly by completing this survey in English or German .