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The toolkit contains four tools to help Smart Cities worldwide include a focus on ICT accessibility and the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons.The toolkit supports a range of organizations and roles related to Smart Cities, including government managers, policy makers, IT professionals, disability advocates, procurement officials, technology suppliers, and developers who design Smart City apps and solutions.Each of the tools addresses a priority challenge identified by global experts as a barrier to the digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities.The toolkit is available in English, Portugese, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Hebrew.
Government, Technology
G3ict: Smart Cities 4 All Toolkit
CBN (Community Broadband Network) works with local authorities, businesses and NGOs, both in the UK and internationally, to help develop transformational and sustainable digital infrastructure. It brings together some of the UK’s top experts in telecommunications strategy, business development, technical implementation, and mutual structures. Dig Once Trusts: Deploying fibre-duct infrastructure at minimal cost. Following the example of US cities, it is possible to build a comprehensive fibre infrastructure at low cost by installing ducting during development and construction work. By creating a neutral body that can hold the ducting in trust, and make it available to stakeholders for rent, it’s possible to overcome some of the obstacles that have prevented progress in the UK.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
CBN - Community Broadband Network
These standards address access to information and communication technology (ICT) under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Communications Act.Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act charges the Access Board with developing and promulgating this rule. The statute also charges the Access Board with providing Technical Assistance on Section 508, which is provided through webinars, trainings, and in close collaboration with GSA and materials available from Section508.gov.
USA | Government, Technology, IT and Communications (ICT)
U.S. Access Board: ICT Accessibility 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines
What characteristics are essential to the successful rollout of an open contracting policy? This is the key question behind research commissioned by the Sunlight Foundation and the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) on the experiences of cities in making public contracting data easily accessible and useful to all. Sharing this information openly can help governments build public trust, improve the effectiveness of their own agencies, and empower the private sector to make wiser investments.
Government, Technology
Policy Guidelines for Municipal Open Contracting
Open Contracting Partnership, Sunlight Foundation
This case study explores the potential of nocturnal heritage as a driver for urban regeneration in Valparaíso’s historic port district. Although designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, the area has faced physical and social decline, losing residents and commercial activity. Conducted in 2019 by the Municipality of Valparaíso in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the study proposes a revitalisation strategy centred on reactivating symbolic nighttime spaces such as historic bars and the local market. It argues that the night holds cultural, economic, and social value, and that a new governance approach is needed to harness these assets and bring life back to the historic quarter after dark.
Chile
Nocturnal Heritage: Awakening the historic quarter of Valparaíso
In light of an increasing number of cybersecurity events, organizations can improve resilience by ensuring that their risk management processes include comprehensive recovery planning. Identifying and prioritizing organization resources helps to guide effective plans and realistic test scenarios. This preparation enables rapid recovery from incidents when they occur and helps to minimize the impact on the organization and its constituents. Additionally, continually improving recovery planning by learning lessons from past events, including those of other organizations, helps to ensure the continuity of important mission functions. This publication provides tactical and strategic guidance regarding the planning, playbook developing, testing, and improvement of recovery planning. It also provides an example scenario that demonstrates guidance and informative metrics that may be helpful for improving resilience of information systems.Part of the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC). Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
USA | Government, Technology
NIST SP 800-184 Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Open contracting data from the Crown Commercial Service.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
Crown Commercial Service (UK) Open Contracting Policy
United Kingdom Government
One of the four primary use cases for open contracting is promoting integrity. This introductory guide shows how countries can reference their procurement data against a set of over 150 suspicious behavior indicators, or “red flags.” These flags occur at all points along the entire chain of public procurement-from planning to tender to award to the contract, itself, to implementation-and not just during the award phase, which tends to be the main focus in many procurement processes.
Government, Technology
Red Flags for Integrity
Open Contracting Partnership
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a method for conducting an in-depth review of how data is collected and managed for a program or project. It asks questions about the collection, use, sharing, security and access controls for data. It also asks for information about policies, training and documentation that govern use of the technology and data collected. The PIA responses are used to determine privacy risks associated with a project as well as ways to reduce some or all of those risks. The City of Seattle has committed to publishing all PIAs on an outward facing website for public access.
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle PIA Reviews
City of Seattle
Open Government is the comprehensive redesign of politics and administrative activities according to the principles of modern Public Management and Public Governance. In terms of the above, Open Government focuses on transparency, participation, and collaboration. The KDZ Implementation Model is based on and significantly elaborates the "Open Government Implementation Model" by Lee/Kwak1. The practical experiences of the city of Vienna and other institutions in German-speaking countries have been incorporated into the model.
Government, Technology
Open Government Implementation Model - Vienna
This provides an extended Open Contracting Data Standard schema, offering a structured data model for presenting information on Public Private Partnership Projects.
Government, Technology
Open Contracting for Public-Private Partnership
Open Contracting Partnership
This Open Data Policy defines the principles governing City of Seattle Open Data and describes the expectations for department participation and governance of the Seattle Open Data Program.(According to analysis of US open data policies by the Sunlight Foundation, Seattle’s open data policy is the highest rated among cities with a population over 500,000.)
Government, Technology
Seattle's Open Data Policy
This not-for-profit safety initiative began in Lincolnshire in 2016 and was adopted by the Metropolitan Police and Safer Sounds in London. It enables individuals who feel vulnerable or unsafe during a night out in licensed venues to discreetly request help by asking staff for “Angela”. Staff trained through WAVE (Welfare And Vulnerability Engagement) are then able to guide the person to a safe space, call them a taxi, contact venue security or the police, all in a subtle manner. The scheme empowers patrons across gender identities and backgrounds to seek support confidently in nightlife settings.
United Kingdom
Ask for Angela Campaign
Ask For Angela
This report is the synthesis of insights drawn from the Governance Workshop of the 24-Hour Cities Network on April 28th, 2022. The 2-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and included presentations and discussions on how to build effective city governance at night-time. This report is divided into three main sections: framing of governance at night for the discussion, insights from the main case studies presented, and insights from the group discussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Governance Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network
This report synthesizes insights drawn from the mobility workshop held by the 24-Hour Cities Network on September 21, 2022. The two-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and included presentations and discussions on how to leverage ecosystem-wide solutions for safe and reliable nighttime urban mobility. This report is divided into three main sections: an introduction to the concept of mobility from a nighttime planning perspective, insights from the main case studies presented, and insights from the group discussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Mobility Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network
This report synthesizes insights drawn from the safety workshop of the 24-Hour Cities Networkon June 14th, 2022. The two-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and includedpresentations and discussions on how to create safe and inclusive cities at nighttime. This reportis divided into three main sections: introducing the concept of safety from a nighttime planningperspective, insights from the main case studies that were presented, and insights from the groupdiscussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Safety Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network
The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between over 150 governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of principles. We promote policies and practices that enable governments and CSOs to collect, share, and use well-governed data, to respond effectively and accountably to the following focus areas: anti-corruption, climate action and pay equity.Governments that adopt the Open Data Charter, commit to deliver open data policies that make data accessible and freely available while protecting the rights of people and communities.
Government, Technology
International Open Data Charter
International Open Data Charter
An ordinance relating to The City of Seattle's acquisition and use of surveillance technologies
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle Surveillance Working Group
City of Seattle
This report explores the future of cities at night, and the role lighting solutions can play in enabling healthy, inclusive and sustainable urban lifestyles. It emphasises a more context-sensitive design approach and a holistic integration of lighting infrastructure into the urban fabric.
Cities Alive: Rethinking the Shades of Night
Arup Group
This report is designed as a tool for national policy-makers and regulators to create their own ICT accessibility policy frameworks. The report was prepared in cooperation with G3ict under the supervision of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) Special Initiatives Division.The report includes six modules focusing on different aspects of ICT accessibility (amendments to the existing ICT legal framework, public ICT access, mobile communications, television/video programming and public procurement of accessible ICTs) so that countries can prioritize implementation. In all modules the approach is to develop national policies in consultation with persons with disabilities.
Government, Technology
G3ict: Model ICT Accessibility Policy Report

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