European Interoperability Framework for Smart Cities and Communities: stakeholder consultation

European Interoperability Framework for Smart Cities and Communities (EIF4SCC) has launched a stakeholder consultation. You can participate until 12 April. 

Cities and communities are confronted with complex challenges, such as climate change, housing quality, pandemics, energy efficiency and urban mobility. Thanks to digital solutions and technological advancements to tackle those growing challenges, they are transforming themselves into Smart Cities and Communities.

Interoperability is crucial to overcome the above-mentioned challenges in cities and communities. Lack of interoperability leads to fragmented service delivery at local level as well as lack of communication. Acknowledging the importance of interoperability for the well-being of the inhabitants, businesses, visitors and city/community administrators in the European Union, Deloitte and KU Leuven University have been tasked by the European Commission to develop a proposal for a EIF4SCC.

The aim of the EIF4SCC is to provide European Union local administration leaders with definitions, principles, recommendations, including practical use cases, and a common model that enables public service delivery across domains, cities, regions and borders.

Following the next step of the framework, a stakeholder consultation has been launched to gather additional contributions and views on the definitions, principles, layers, conceptual model and recommendations and use cases of the draft proposal for a EIF4SCC. The stakeholder consultation survey is available here until the 12th of April 2021.