The Upper Silesian-Zagłębie Metropolis (GZM) in Poland, which encompasses 31 cities and municipalities, is deploying a 7,000-strong fleet of shared bikes.
Digitised maps and documents will provide city officials, businesses and the public in the Świętokrzyskie Province faster access to spatial planning data.
A survey by the World Economic Forum finds that more than seven in 10 adults, including a majority in every single country, expect climate change to have a severe effect in their regions over the next 10 years.
C40 Cities is supporting nine mayors from cities around the world to simultaneously address these connected issues by curbing emissions, creating jobs, and building resilience.
Three-year grants will fund innovation teams, or “i-teams,” to help mayors leverage data and digital technologies to enhance public services and create new value for communities.
Rzeszów will host a pilot programme run by Blinkee, which will deploy Vaimoo’s latest generation of connected e-bikes that can be integrated with a micromobility management system.
Orange and Smartkey are unveiling what claims to be the first Blockchain-of-Thing Sim card, designed to enable access control and other smart city functions to be managed on a phone.
The company now provides intelligent lighting control to 23 towns and cities across Poland and the Czech Republic with a total population of 250,000 citizens.
SmartKey connected an Ethereum smart contract to a smart key device and app to enable teams to enter a closed district or secure building without a keyholder or permission.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative aims to help the cities deliver "high impact" digital services and share lessons learned with the rest of the world.
