Urban Platform Dresden - New Solutions for Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, and Urban Value Creation

This paper reports on the overall concept and current development of Dresden's Urban Platform (UP) which targets new ICT-based services for civic life and urban management. It aims to support the daily life and work of citizens, as well decision-making in the context of the Smart City agenda of Dresden. The UP relates to the EU-funded project MATchUP which comprises actions dedicated to renewable energy, sustainable mobility and ICT development. UP Dresden is to connect existing and future IT systems of the state capital Dresden as well as data gained by the local MATchUP project partners. The paper presents the logical approach, current state of design, and technical development of the platform. It reflects on GDPR and interoperability standardisation issues, and shows how use cases have been co-created for the UP. A detailed report is given on the currently used technologies and services in the UP. The paper outlook discusses upcoming tasks, and how the platform will be prepared for open and real-time data enhancement, Big Data analysis and visualization, and for the monitoring of KPI.