As always, the EU Strategic Foresight Report is a timely and interesting read. The 2023 edition is out now. Keywords: #balance #people #planet #profit – with a focus on joint EU actions and investments lnkd.in/eyCcgs5i lnkd.in/eaAyrUzw

This idea of just releasing AI in the wild without crash testing, well, that’s probably only accepted in the early Wild West stage. Together with massive, indiscriminate data appropriation. lnkd.in/e8vt8ctN

Great news. Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium will also be joining the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) efforts for Local Digital Twins and Citiverse. lnkd.in/eVwDmGrk

Congratulations, Roland van der Heijden & City of Rotterdam, and thanks. As you assume the top post in the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) global community, we’re here to support and be inspired lnkd.in/e3dQ9H69

Eight years today 🌱🐌🤷‍♀️ lnkd.in/ep6YSgCb

There's an intellectual property battle building. Remember paid-vs-free internet/news? And Jason Lanier's plea to make the metaverse (cyberspace) pay-per-view, to defend the right of content creators to be paid and acknowledged? "…lnkd.in/d7gUNY3F lnkd.in/dfXABGB5

“Often automation is not really automated. Human labor is a necessary component that is often pushed out of view”. Thanks for sharing, @laura4lano. Really important points. lnkd.in/eMuxgmjf

If you have any interest in what could possibly go wrong with AI, why not propose one (or more) of the 100 CommuniCity #AI pilots trying to learn? lnkd.in/eUbRN2bG

We’re so happy and proud to be part of the EU Data Spaces Support Centre, leading the smart communities bit—the world needs all the support it can get! 🎭 #DSSC #MIMs Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) DTU - Technical University of Denmark lnkd.in/eKjYeCD8

MIMs and SDGs = 🤗🌱🌍 17 United Nations 🇺🇳 are behind United for Smart and Sustainable Cities #U4SSC, an effort to concretely reach the #SustainableDevelopment Goals. Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) with UNE - Asociación Española de Normalización and…lnkd.in/eQHAWt4e

Today we soft-launch DESIRE—Designing an Irresistible Circular Society. Because, really, what’s the alternative? Methods, dilemmas, voices will blend in the five sites in #Riga, #Ljubljana, #Amsterdam, #Milano and #Torino, and thr…lnkd.in/epYXQzFj lnkd.in/eRVfx2r7

A data space for smart communities (etc.)—what is it anyway? For one thing, it’s brilliant, caring and ambitious people leaning into co-creating a digital future for all that doesn’t suck 🙏 Eurocities ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) AIT Austrian…lnkd.in/e7Tv42kU

Great work by our Swedish colleagues — and what could be more timely: securing infrastructure while staying open and agile. Great input for the European work, and for Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) MIM 6 on Security. 🙏 lnkd.in/eJFiMj7H

Really good discussions around the @danskstandard Guide to sustainable, digital transformation—available free in English and Danish. Local Digital Twins is next up webshop.ds.dk/en-gb/standard…

💪10 years with smart cities - Ugo Valenti shares learnings from Fira Barcelona / Smart City Expo World Congress in the closing session of the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) #CxCFestival tomorrow lnkd.in/eeeZGQuZ

Every year in January we (Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) have our annual community event, CxC Festival (CxC means: community by community, city by city, country by country, continent by continent). It’s in Brussels, but this yea…lnkd.in/ecVWSXiC citybycity.com

Local data Spaces, digital twins, minimal interoperability, AI, personal data, mobility, buildings – and ensuring the market works for us all. #CxCFestival22 is live now at citybycity.com lnkd.in/edaxXSae lnkd.in/exBdWcHm

While the world is opening, closing, opening, we cannot wait to see you, in Brussels and wherever you are, for CxC Festival 2022! Sign up now for free lnkd.in/gWyjZDNi lnkd.in/gKJ-xHaF