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This report makes a case for the need for systematic digitalization in cities, the need to pursue an outcomes-based planning, design and implementation of digitalization projects, the strategic role of data, the leadership and governance required and how to build a digitally enabled city. The report provides a digital maturity model and a 10-step action plan. These tools are intended to help city administrations identify their status quo with respect to digital capabilities, and derive promising measures for cities to develop the structures and capabilities required to utilize digital technologies for a green and just recovery.
Using Digital Technology for a Green and Just Recovery in Cities
This report provides cities with an actionable strategy to enable cities take a systems approach to climate resilience strategies. A systems approach leverages linkages across multiple infrastructure sectors, enhances integrated governance and finance, and deepens engagement among diverse stakeholders, thereby maximizing the co-benefits of climate actions. The report provides a 5-step action plan to guide cities in adopting a systems approach to urban infrastructure delivery.
Delivering Climate Resilient Cities Using a Systems Approach
This guidance is useful for:Understanding the key use cases for procurement dataPrioritizing key data fields to collect and publish Identifying indicators that can be calculated
Government, Technology
Open Contracting Data Use Cases
Open Contracting Partnership
This paper explains how the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance is developed Regional Alliances around the world; how it supports the partners and the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network to build regional networks that support cities; and how through a new playbook, it intends to scale this model further, creating new networks that can promote initiatives for emerging technologies.
Building Regional Alliance for Urban Transformation
This paper explains how the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance is developing Regional Alliances around the world; how it supports the partners and the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network to build regional networks that support cities; and how through a new playbook, it intends to scale this model further, creating new networks that can promote initiatives for emerging technologies.
Government, Technology
Building Regional Alliances for Urban Transformation
This Playbook can be used as a guide to the necessary steps for establishing a Regional Alliance in a country or region.The purpose of this Playbook is to share information on success points and tasks to be performed for Regional Alliance establishment based on the experience of existing regional networks in the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, notably the Japan City Community.
Government, Technology
Regional Alliance Playbook
Matteo Massenzio and Marco Lombardo from the Municipality of Milan talk through a learning sessions on:The history of open data in MilanMilan's open data portalPolicies and proceduresOpen data projects
Italy | Government, Technology
The Storytelling of Milan Through its Data
Comune di Milano
Members of the Leeds City Council talk through the approach for building an open data ecosystem in Leeds, UK.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
Leeds - Building an Open Data Ecosystem
#FreetownTheTreetown is the Sierra Leonean capital’s campaign to plant and grow a million trees by the end of 2022. It prioritises areas at risk of landslide, as well as riverbanks and the low-income areas most in need of regreening. By taking a community ownership approach and using blended sources of finance and digital innovation, Freetown has developed a replicable, sustainable financing model for urban nature-based solutions. Here, Technical Director of the #FreetownTheTreeTown campaign Eric Hubbard and his team share their advice for peers in other cities – especially those that are under-resourced.Read more on the C40 Knowledge Hub.
Sierra Leone
Freetown’s highly replicable way of self-financing urban reforestation
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Surveillance Technologies Under Review: Tracking Devices (Police), Remotely Operated Vehicles (Police), Computer, cellphone and mobile device extraction tools (Police), Crash Data Retrieval (Police), GeoTime (Police), Camera Systems (Police).
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle Surveillance Technology Review
City of Seattle
An Ordinance relating to The City of Seattle’s acquisition and use of surveillance technologies.
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle Surveillance Ordinance
City of Seattle
The Digital Infrastructure Strategic Framework (DISF), formerly known as the Digital Infrastructure Plan, will modernize and formalize the roles, functions and procedures within which digital infrastructure decisions at the City are made. City Council adopted the DISF at its meeting of April 6, 2022, as the guiding direction for Digital Infrastructure Initiatives undertaken by the City.
Canada | Government, Technology
Toronto Digital Infrastructure Plan
City of Toronto
The Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) based on the ITI VPAT® is the leading global reporting format for assisting buyers and sellers in identifying information and communications technology (ICT) products and services with accessibility features.
Government, Technology, IT and Communications (ICT)
ITI: Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
Burcu Özdemir, PhD. from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality speaks to Istanbul's Smart City Journey, Open Data Policy and IMM Open Data Portal.
Türkiye | Government, Technology
Istanbul - Open Data Governance
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Through the World Economic Forum’s Council of the Connected World, leaders from Consumers International, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord and I Am the Cavalry, representing more than 400 organizations globally, collaborated to recognize an emerging consensus on baseline cyber security provisions for consumer IoT devices.
Joint statement of support on consumer IoT device security
Dubai Data: Maximizing the value of open data through open governance, standards and ecosystem engagement.
Government, Technology
Dubai Data Regulations
The construction and operation of buildings generate 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions. While numerous technologies exist to help decarbonize the sector, there is an urgent need to accelerate investment to implement these solutions at scale in cities around the world.
Accelerating the Decarbonization of Buildings: The Net-Zero Carbon Cities Building Value Framework
Explanation of Open Contracting policy rationale from the Open Contracting Partnership.
Government, Technology
Open Contracting Partnership
Open Contracting Partnership
The Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy. The Privacy Framework approach to privacy risk is to consider privacy events as potential problems individuals could experience arising from system, product, or service operations with data, whether in digital or non-digital form, through a complete life cycle from data collection through disposal.
Government, Technology
NIST Privacy Framework
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
The Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provides a systematic and comprehensive approach to assessing the extent to which cyber risks to essential functions are being managed by the organisation responsible. It is intended to be used either by the responsible organisation itself (self-assessment) or by an independent external entity, possibly a regulator or a suitably qualified organisation acting on behalf of a regulator.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework
National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

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