The last few years and their rapid turn of events have posed significant transformation challenges not only for individuals and companies, but also for municipalities and their teams. Digitalisation is one of them. Understanding what it means, what it demands and the opportunities and risks it implies are some of the topics addressed including discussing challenges and their solutions in the digitalisation cluster.

We are pleased to invite you to the kick-off event of our COVID Cluster “Digitalisation” on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021, from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST. The event promotes the exchange of challenges and good practices in the planning and implementation of municipal digitalisation measures by focusing on the following topics:

• Digital divide
• Digital literacy
• Public service design optimization
• Digitalisation of municipal services
• City Lab collaborations

The cluster kick-off is the starting point for a journey of activities to support municipalities in their digitalisation efforts. The kick-off event will introduce the cluster working groups and will give an overview over the future roadmap. In addition, good practices will be shared, and the innovative City Lab will be presented.

The event brings together municipal representatives and urban practitioners to present and discuss their challenges and good practices and to develop new project ideas through peer-learning and exchange. This session will also set the ground for the formation of different working groups which will aim at further developing these project ideas by peer-to-peer exchange formats and with the support of relevant regional and international experts.

To register for the event and stay updated on the agenda, the announcement of speakers and further details of the session please follow the designated page in the Connective Cities Community: COVID Digitalisation Cluster kick-off

If you are interested in getting involved in one (or more) working group/s within the digitalisation cluster, please fill out the Open Call for Participation.

The event at a glance:

COVID Digitalisation Cluster Kick-off
Date: Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Time: 14:00-16:00 MESZ
Venue: Connective Cities Community (Online)
Event Language: English, simultaneous translation: Arabic, (Russian tbc.)
Contact: Fatina Toukan  fatina.toukan@giz.de