INTELCITIES: Intelligent cities

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 03.0320-1

Key words (English)

e-government

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: 507860

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 6. Frame Research Programme - 1.2 Communications technologies

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Eidg. Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt EMPA

Abstract (English)

The main objective of INTELCITIES is to create a new and innovative set of interoperable e-government services to meet the needs of both citizens and businesses. This will provide interactive citywide on-line applications and services for users that will make all aspects of what is 'going-on' in the city available to all. This will support:
· the everyday needs and requirements of citizens and business through 24 hour access to transactional city services;
· more efficient city management and administration by integrating functions and services across city authorities, regional and national governmental agencies, utility and transport system providers and citizens/NGO networks;
· much more innovative and effective approaches to urban planning through more reliable city modelling, using advanced visualisation and predictive techniques, which will enable citizens and businesses to play a far more participative and inclusive role in influencing how planned changes in the city will affect their lives.
INTELCITIES will demonstrate a 'integrated project' approach to all aspects of its work, including:
· providing innovative but user-friendly interactive on-line discussion forums so that citizens, officials, businesses and community organisations/NGOs can work together in more inclusive ways to enhance local decision-making processes;
· developing new mechanisms for negotiation and arbitration in order to help remove or resolve disputes over local development that constrains urban regeneration, whilst at the same time enhancing citizens' rights in urban decision-making processes;
· using lessons learnt from best practice in different socio-economic environments to build a new interoperable and integrated platform for city e-government services, based on open systems, and capable of being both scalable and transferable;
· developing practical and effective results which are capable of materially supporting economic regeneration and social inclusion.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 03.0320-1