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Vienna’s gentle urban renewal programme revitalizes older apartment buildings, preserving affordability and preventing tenant displacement.
Engineering & Construction
Gentle Urban Renewal in Vienna
The Hikma Community Complex is a cultural and educational hub in Dandaji, Niger, that combines the adaptive re-use of a historic mosque with new built additions to support community development, education, and environmental and social sustainability.
Education, Engineering & Construction
The Hikma Community Complex
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design seeks to challenge conventional construction methods by applying the principles of circularity and regenerative design. Located on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, it is the first Living Building Challenge-certified project1 in the southeastern US, a region known for its hot and humid climate.
Education, Engineering & Construction, Materials
The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design
The Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, known as Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco (PELT), is a transformative urban ecological restoration project in Mexico City.
Government, Engineering & Construction
Revitalizing Lake Texcoco
Resource Rows, developed by Lendager Group, is a pioneering residential project in Copenhagen that demonstrates sustainable circular construction practices.
Civil society, Engineering & Construction
Resource Rows, Copenhagen
The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) integrates education, research and practice to equip the next generation of agricultural leaders with the skills needed for climate-resilient, conservation-driven farming.
Education, Food & agriculture, Engineering & Construction
Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture
Retrofitting homes to enhance structural resilience and access to essential resources, including energy, water and waste management, preserving cultural identity and ensuring that communities could withstand future climate events.
Energy & utilities, Engineering & Construction, Just Transition
Building Climate Resilient Housing in Honduras’ Sula Valley
ChallengeBuild an efficient digitalisation in agricultureSolutionAccelerated technology adoptionRobust protocols, systems, and processesNew/updated government policy or regulationOutcome11 frameworks and 24 use cases identified to support technology implementationMultiple partnerships established to support pilotsOngoing pilots and adoption of new AI systemsIntegrating advanced AI technologies in agriculture is required to build the scope and pace necessary for a digitally enabled transformation India’s agriculture sector. To capitalize on the potential of emerging technologies for agriculture the AI4AI initiative was founded, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog and the Ministry of Electronics and the Government of Telangana. Phase I of the project engaged 60 plus partners across government and business to identify the key opportunities for AI across 4 areas: intelligent crop farming, smart farming, farmgate-to-fork, and data driven agriculture. This resulted in key recommendations to advance AI4AI develop India and in other countries such as Colombia. These recommendations are now being used to implement designed, large-scale pilot projects (with organisations including Digital Green, Technoserve and Dehaat) to realize the value propounded in the major frameworks and use cases developed. Use cases include, among others, sowing window prediction, tillage estimation, crop detection and health monitoring, pest incidence prediction and early prediction of crop yield. System improvements, such as the deployment of an AI-based quality assaying model, have also been introduced as a result of the initiative thus far.
India, Saudi Arabia | Food & agriculture, Health
Artificial Intelligence for Agricultural Innovation (AI4AI)
ChallengeMake the global smart city market healthier and more efficientSolutionBy uniting municipal and national governments, private sector partners and city residents around a shared set of guiding principles and a common policy framework for implementation of smart city technologiesOutcomeCurrently, 36 cities are working as pioneer cities to implement five model policies.Aim to reach 200 cities within the next 1-2 years through develop new digital platform and develop regional cities networkEstablished in June 2019, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance unites municipal, regional and national governments, private-sector partners and cities’ residents around a shared set of principles for the responsible and ethical use of smart city technologies. The Alliance establishes and advances global policy norms to help accelerate best practices, mitigate potential risks, and foster greater openness and public trust. This initiative, has grown steadily. over the past years. With strong leadership by C4IR Japan, the network has been working with 36 pioneer cities and has released six model policies to guide smart city development. The initiative is currently expanding in scale through regional cities communities in areas including India and Latin America and is piloting the model policies with government and business. Alliance activities have been guided by the Governing Smart Cities report developed to provide a benchmark for the ethical and responsible use of smart city technologies. In 2020, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance was recognised as a key initiative for leading urban technology governance, receiving the Governance & Economy Award at the 2021 Smart City Expo World Congress. The Alliance continues to expand, working with ‘Pioneer Cities’ to test roadmaps can trial policies and work with Alliance to address gaps in local governance.
Japan | Transportation, Other, Technology
G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance
Dylan Morris and Saad Bashir (CTO) from the City of Seattle run through Seattle's journey towards improved cyber accountability.
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle's Cyber Accountability Journey
City of Seattle
In February 2011, Christchurch was struck by a severe earthquake that killed 185 people and caused significant disruption and damage to large portions of a city already weakened by an earlier earthquake. In the response to the quake, volunteers and officials at the recovery agencies used open data, open source tools, trusted data sharing and crowdsourcing to develop a range of products and services required to respond successfully to emerging conditions. These included a crowdsourced emergency information Web app that generated 70,000 visits within the first 48 hours after the earthquake; a series of geographic information system (GIS) data sharing agreements between agencies that enabled the successful provision of mapping services throughout the response and recovery; websites using open property data that enabled citizens to check the status of their homes and land, and generated millions of hits within hours of release; a construction intention viewer built using open data and open source tools that saved NZ$4 million in construction costs within its first year of use; and a crowdsourced competition for school children that generated over 18,000 new building footprints for open property databases at a cost of $0.02 per footprint.
New Zealand | Technology
New Zealand's Earthquake Response
LinkNYC is a public-private collaboration in New York City that aims to replace the city’s antiquated network of payphones with smart kiosks that enable high-speed Wi-Fi, phone calls and other city services at no upfront cost to the public or taxpayers. It is financed through advertising on digital displays at the kiosks and other auxiliary services, with a revenue-sharing agreement between the city and the privatesector partnership that was selected to develop what became LinkNYC. LinkNYC demonstrates how leveraging public assets and city spaces in new innovative ways can create business opportunities for the private sector, create value for residents at no cost to taxpayers and provide new revenue streams for city budgets.
USA | Government, Technology, IT and Communications (ICT)
LinkNYC
Toolkit that provides a summary of the essential elements of open government data, starting with its definition, and giving real life examples of how Open Data is made available, and how it has been put into practice.
Government, Technology
World Bank Open Data Essentials
World Bank Group
Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.This guide discusses the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. This book explains the basic concepts of ‘open data’, especially in relation to government. It covers how open data creates value and can have a positive impact in many different areas. In addition to exploring the background, the handbook also provides concrete information on how to produce open data.
Government, Technology
Open Data Handbook Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation
The mission of Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) is to unite cities and communities around the world to build a global market for solutions, services, and data based on the needs of cities and communities.To achieve this mission, OASC champions the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs), a set of practical capabilities based on open technical specifications that allow cities and communities to replicate and scale solutions globally. The MIMs are developed by the OASC Technology Council and governed by the Council of Cities and the Board of Directors.MIMs provide the technical foundation for procurement and deployment of urban data platforms and end-to-end solutions in cities & communities worldwide.
Government, Technology
OASCities - Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms MIMs
Open & Agile Smart Cities
A 5-star deployment scheme for Open Data. It provides examples for each level of a 5-star Open Data plan. The 5 Star Linked Data system is cumulative. Each additional star presumes the data meets the criteria of the previous step(s).
Government, Technology
5 Star Open Data
CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers hundreds of data portals worldwide.
Government, Technology
Crowdsourcing Model for Open Data Portals
Open Knowledge Foundation
When assessing engagement strategies and activities, the level of readiness of an Open Data initiative and the data literacy of its users are primary factors to consider. To engage a variety of stakeholders as an Open Data program develops, the following strategy addresses both the readiness level and the initiative’s audience, and may help inspire and empower citizens to use Open Data and maximize value to the public in practical ways. The strategy is comprised of four stages: Early Engagement, Capacity Development, Use & Re-use and Further Development.
Government, Technology
World Bank Open Government Toolkit: Demand & Engagement
World Bank Group
The official portal for European data. 1+ million data sets, Data Europa Academy, EU Datathon, studies, use cases, events and news.The portal addresses the whole data value chain, from data publishing to data reuse. Going beyond collecting metadata (data about data), the strategic objective of the portal is to improve accessibility and increase the value of open data.
Europe | Government, Technology
European Data Portal
European Union
These guidelines provide a framework to help government and our partners responsibly deploy connected devices and IoT technologies in a coordinated and consistent manner. More than 35 leading cities, spanning 11 countries, have now joined New York City in this effort.
USA | Government, Technology
NYC IoT Guidelines

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