Dresden Urban Platform content view The concept and overall approach of Dresden Urban Platform is described more detailed in D3.22. The Municipality of Dresden, in line with its Digital Agenda, has developed a comprehensive ICT-Infrastructure in which many vertical services of the city are integrated by now. This Urban Platform of Dresden is in charge of gathering information from several municipal services in order to provide information for decision- making within the city of Dresden. Furthermore, the existing set of key indicators to support this decision processes needs to be elaborated. Another objective of the platform is to offer data to the citizens and municipal managers to support all the necessary information to ease their daily life. The following vertical services are to be integrated and managed through this platform: ✔ sensor data (charging infrastructure) ✔ energy data (building control centre) ✔ urban data ✔ environmental data ✔ traffic data The Smart City strategy of Dresden found its place in the guiding strategic planning documents approved by the city council and discussed with citizens in the course of the planning process. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology market. According to the IDC Smart City [14] encompassed processes that are based on a combination of information and communication technologies and further technologies to support urban organisation and development. The networked and intelligent infrastructure serves to improve competitiveness of the local economy, resource efficiency, strengthens the participation of citizens and helps to integrate social aspects. This allows citizens to be part of a wider network, allows for social integration, enables participation in the knowledge society and fosters thus a higher quality of urban life. The competences within the city in the fields of building, mobility, energy and government as well as security need to be enhanced.
Dresden Urban Platform. Transparency Portal The UP modules aim to deliver new digital services addressing societal needs that relates to political narratives. It will provide city data stakeholders ready access and delivery of data that unpins the decision making process.
Dresden Urban Platform content view The overall ”Big picture” shown in Figure 3.1 illustrates the underlying concept on how the integration of different data sources – processed by the Dresden Urban Platform – leads to several new services, here called Urban Business Models. So far, the adaptations are clustered in the following three categories:
