The first edition of CityTech RUHR, Germany’s largest international smart city startup challenge, concluded with the successful development and implementation of pilot projects by three international startups in three participating cities of the Ruhr Metropolis. Three success stories reflect the high innovation potential that can be leveraged through the collaboration between cities and startups.
Topic: smart-city-challenge
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CityTech RUHR: How Cities Innovate through City-Startup Collaboration
By Thomas Mueller on Dec 1, 2020 1:56:40 PM
Topics:
Smart City Solutions
Smart City Challenge
Smart City
Smart Cities
Ruhr Metropolis
Business Metropole Ruhr
City of Cities
City Tech Ruhr
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Solutions for Cities: International Digital Ideas Competition started
By Thomas Mueller on Nov 3, 2020 1:00:03 PM
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed similar challenges to cities and municipalities around the world. What have we learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and how can innovative solutions also be used in the post-crisis period? The international digital ideas competition #SolutionsForCities, started by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI), is not only intended to find answers to all these questions. Rather, cities and municipalities are to be supported through international collaboration in identifying digital solutions to overcome their local challenges.
Partnering cities of the International Smart Cities Network (ISCN) and German cities that have been recognized as "Smart Cities Model Projects" have identified current challenges to be solved through the international ideas competition.
Topics:
Smart City Challenge
Smart City
Smart Cities
Urban Challenges
BMI
International Smart Cities Network
Ideas Competition
Solutions for Cities
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CityTech RUHR: The Bottrop & Gelsenkirchen Challenges
By Thomas Mueller on Apr 28, 2020 12:50:57 PM
With Germany's largest international smart city startup challenge, the Ruhr Metropolis - City of Cities - is calling start-ups from across the globe to apply and solve the real-world challenges of four cities: Bochum, Bottrop, Hagen and Gelsenkirchen through a paid pilot. The application deadline has been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic until May 3, 2020. In the following paragraphs, we will look more closely on the Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen challenges.
Topics:
Smart City Startup
Smart City Challenge
Blockchain
Incentives
Gelsenkirchen
CityTech Ruhr
Bottrop
Startup Challenge
Ruhr Metropolis
Schalke 04
Token
Retail
Economic Revitalization
City of Cities
Local Businesses
Community Development
City Center
Call for Better Cities
Local Shopping
Inner City
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CityTech RUHR: The Bochum & Hagen Challenges
By Thomas Mueller on Apr 9, 2020 5:04:30 PM
With Germany's largest international smart city startup challenge, the Ruhr Metropolis - City of Cities - is calling start-ups from across the globe to apply and solve the real-world challenges of four cities: Bochum, Bottrop, Hagen and Gelsenkirchen through a paid pilot. The application deadline has been extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic until May 3, 2020.
Topics:
Smart Mobility
Smart City Startup
Smart City Challenge
Building Information Modelling
Urban Mobility
Sustainable Urban Mobility
CityTech Ruhr
Startup Challenge
Ruhr Metropolis
Hagen
Bochum
Building Permit
City of Cities
Building Applications
Call for Better Cities
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CityTech RUHR: Germany’s biggest smart city startup challenge launched
By Thomas Mueller on Mar 4, 2020 10:00:00 AM
CityTech RUHR invites startups from around the world to participate in Germany’s biggest smart city challenge. Four cities and their business partners seek innovative solutions for four different challenges and offer the opportunity to win paid pilot projects. Startups that want to participate can apply until May 3, 2020 (Deadline extended due to the COVID-19 situation) for one of the program’s challenges at: www.citytech.ruhr
Topics:
Smart Mobility
Smart City Startup
Smart City Challenge
Startup Competition
BIM
Blockchain
Mobility
Building Construction
Challenges
Smart City Startups
Data
Gelsenkirchen
CityTech Ruhr
Bottrop
Startup Challenge
Ruhr Metropolis
Hagen
Bochum
Schalke 04
Vonovia
Business Metropole Ruhr
Ruhr Area
Token
Building Permit
Retail
Economic Revitalization
City of Cities
Local Businesses
Building Applications
Local Crypto Coin
Community Development
Incentivize
City Center
Call for Better Cities
Economic Growth
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Benefits of Open Data for Smart Cities
By Lisa Smith on Dec 10, 2017 8:36:56 PM
Open data could help to accelerate the development of smart cities by connecting the people most capable of creating smart city solutions with the data needed to generate and support them.
What is Open Data?
An overwhelming amount of data is being generated by both public and private concerns on an ongoing basis. This data is stored beyond the reach of most people, secured in government or proprietary databases or on individual electronic devices. The types and the depth of this data is growing as new and increasingly technological solutions are implemented to solve the problems of the governments, businesses, and private citizens of smart cities.
The potential advantages of data collection on such a scale are beyond question. Data collection is the most laborious part of any investigation, and yet the majority of global data is going largely unseen and unused. Limiting the number of people who can access it necessarily limits the number of problems to which it can be applied and, in most cases, prevents access to the people best able to apply it.
The solution to this is to make the data publicly available via an open government approach: open data.
Topics:
Smart City Solutions
Smart Government
Collective Intelligence
Crowdsourcing
Open Data
Smart Economy
Smart City Challenge
Transparency
Open Government
Co-Creation