Intelcities

IntelCities (Intelligent Cities) is a research and technological development project to pool advanced knowledge and experience of electronic government, planning systems and citizen participation from across Europe.

The project is being led by Manchester City Council (UK) and the City of Siena (Italy).

It brings together eighteen European cities, twenty ICT companies (including Nokia and CISCO) and thirty-six research groups.

The project is part of the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, with €6.8m of the €11.4m budget from the EU’s Information Society Technologies programme.

IntelCities will help achieve the EU policy goal of the Knowledge Society by 2010 through new forms of electronic governance of cities and greater social inclusion through enhanced access to services by citizens and businesses.

The project aims to create a new and innovative set of interoperable, e-government services that will provide information to all citizens and businesses about all aspects of city life via interactive city-wide Internet based applications.

By providing these services, IntelCities will:

Address poor quality information that prevents the effective use, management and planning of cities. Support the everyday needs of citizens and business by providing 24 hour access to stransactional city services. Develop more efficient city management by integrating services across city authorities, regional and national government agencies, utility and transport system providers, non-governmental organisation networks and citizens. Enable citizens and businesses to play a far more participative and inclusive role in city planning via more reliable city modelling, predictive planning, and advanced visualisation technologies.

External links

* http://intelcities.iti.gr/intelcities