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The Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) supports cities to leverage advanced technologies and relaunch their economies towards a green, smart and socially-responsible recovery. Following an open call for expression of interest, 90 applications, representing 126 EU cities, have now been selected to participate in ICC.

Supported by Barcelona City Council, Decidim is an open source digital platform dedicated to participatory democracy, entirely designed and built in a collaborative manner. Since its inception, the platform has been implemented by several cities, regions and organisations worldwide.

A group of European experts have recently discussed how to pursue the Commission’s ambition in building a common European smart communities’ data space on the European federated cloud infrastructure.

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Technologies (ICT) Water Standards and Specifications is to support the Action Plan for Water Services in the context of the Digital Single Market as well as the Rolling Plan of the European Commission for digitalisation of the water management.

The European Commission’s 5G Action Plan aims to launch 5G services in all Member States by the end of 2020 as well as ensure uninterrupted 5G coverage in urban areas and along main transport paths by 2025.

The 230 households, farms and small businesses spread out over 44 square kilometres in the remote municipality of Hammikeln, in the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, felt a great need for high-speed connectivity in order to continue to live and work in the area. The low population density, however, meant that there was no commercial interest from private telecom companies. As a result, the area’s four local communities decided to build their own gigabit-speed fibre network themselves, in partnership with a local utility company.

The European Location Interoperability Solutions for eGovernment (ELISE) action aims to enable digital government through geospatial data and location intelligence. It is a package of legal, policy, organisational, semantic and technical interoperability solutions that aim to facilitate more efficient and effective digital cross-sector interaction and data re-use.