How can city data spaces transform data-sharing?

FIWARE Foundation, the non-profit organisation that encourages the use of open standards when developing smart solutions, and SmartCitiesWorld, have published a whitepaper to show how city data spaces are paving the way for a new era of data-sharing between different organisations and individuals.

It was presented during the opening ceremony of the recent FIWARE Global Summit in Vienna, which is one of the leading open-source conferences for businesses, public administrations, academia, developers, technologists and strategists to discuss challenges and opportunities for open innovation around digital transformation.

Creating city data spaces

City data spaces: A guide to building and operationalising data services features contributions from key players in the market including  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Competence Centre for Cities and Regions (DKSR), Latitudo 40, Red Hat, Mobility Data Space, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Deloitte and Urban Software Institute.

Data spaces are still an emerging concept for smart cities but there are already a number of active use cases in the market that demonstrate best practices. The white paper provides expert views on how data spaces are transforming data-sharing and establishing new frameworks to create data services that can improve urban services and liveability.

“Data spaces have the potential to transform the way data is shared. Given the complexity of smart city ecosystems, they will be critical to improving public services”

Data spaces have the ability to usher in a new way of sharing data between different organisations and individuals. They are replacing one-to-one connections, enabling the data-driven collaboration between different partners and flexibility with new partners.

FIWARE Foundation is instrumental in establishing data spaces and their roll-outs in Europe and beyond.  The set of building blocks for the creation of interoperable data spaces in different application domains, to which FIWARE is contributing its technology and know-how, is providing the functionality to enable interoperability by defined interfaces and data models, contributing to a much higher standardisation.