Tampere City Strategy 2030 lays the foundation for the city’s management. It is based on recognized factors that will drive future changes, and represents the long-term goals of the city’s development from the present to 2030. The strategy, adopted in November 2021, was drafted together with city personnel, residents and stakeholders.

The Tampere City Strategy has four focus areas: 1) Equal individuals, 2) Active communities, 3) Climate neutral action, and 4) A pioneer of the future. This project will focus in particular on the Focus Area 4, and its vision, “Tampere continues its success story; we provide the best conditions for making the solutions of the future. Tampere has a strong position as an international city of science and know-how”, and on one of its key actions, “We boldly take advantage of the opportunities of digitalisation in service development”.

The city strategy is the instrument that guides all the city's activities. City of Tampere has identified people-centredness as a key guiding principle in its strategy. Our smart city and data-driven policies and actions contribute to this goal and promote people-centred digital transformation as a key driver of change.

Helsinki's Data Strategy is centered around making data usable and using data to improve the city's services. The Data Strategy takes its cue from the city’s Digitalisation Programme, launched in 2019. The programme outlines how Helsinki plans to utilise digitalisation to achieve its aim of becoming the most functional city in the world. The objective is only possible to reach with the efficient use of data and artificial intelligence.

The strategy’s four objectives are: 1. data is utilised to create a city that proactively responds to residents’ service needs, 2. data is a driver on decision-making, 3. the city’s operations and resources are optimised with the help of data, and 4. the sharing of data drives innovation and new business.
The strategy is a city-level policy guiding the development and use of data and analytical methods in all four service divisions of the city: education; culture and leisure; urban environment; and social service, health care and rescue services division.

In addition to setting up shared guidelines and principles for the whole city organisation, the strategy sets the MyData principle as a key priority, meaning that citizens should be able to determine how their data is used. It’s also set in the strategy that the city develops the transparency and explainability of its use of data and analytical methods in city services.

In Amsterdam, we have established a Agenda Digital City (ADC) led by deputy major for Digital City & ICT. This digital agenda explicitly focuses on assessing the impact of digitization on the lives of Amsterdam citizens. ADC is a continuous programme and a vision on digitalization in the city based on the evalution of the previous programme period (previous period was 2019-2022). The current ADC outlines Amsterdam's goals for the period between 2023 and 2026. One of the goals is strengthening the digital rights and freedoms of the citizens of Amsterdam, such as privacy, transparency, and control over their own data.
This can be achieved by:
- Amsterdam uses data, algorithms, and AI applications in a responsible manner: it manages the risks associated with designing, acquiring/implementing, and using data, algorithms, and AI applications.
- The municipality is transparent about the data it collects on citizens and organizations, as well as the high-risk algorithms employed by the municipal organization, which are documented in the algorithm register.
- Finally, it is easier for citizens and organizations to correct and retrieve the data that the City of Amsterdam stores about them or has shared with other parties for personal use.

Piemonte Innova (FPI) coordinates the Regional ICT Innovation Cluster (Polo ICT), and is thus responsible for the cross-cutting topic of Digital Transformation and the development of the Regional Research, Development Innovation Roadmap related to innovative technologies.

The Regional Technology Roadmap is developed by FPI as part of its role as a regional innovation cluster focused on ICT. It includes the interest of the stakeholders of the territory in terms of research, development and innovation in both technology driven implementations and interest on projects and initiatives to develop, impacts and outcomes for the actors and the territory. It is then presented and share with the regional government as an instrument to further support the decision making process related to investments funds.

The Roadmap specifically includes a section on Smart and Inclusive Government, focused on recommendations related to the implementation of initiatives, technologies and actions that can support the Cities in their development at both internal and towards the provided services to the citizens.

The policy instrument has six general objectives:

G.O.1 Smart public administration (efficient, transparent and digital) in order to insure the frame for sustainable development of local communities and reduce the development disparities
G.O.2. Performance in education and developing sustainable jobs in an innovative economy
G.O.3 Social and health development, social inclusion and improved life quality
G.O.4 Clean environment, climate change adaptation
G.O.5 Quality infrastructure in public services (for digital, transport, energy and other fields)
G.O.6 Green, innovative, performant and competitive economy (by developing the entrepreneurship, industry, agriculture, rural areas, tourism)

G.O.1, the focus of policy improvement in this project, has five specific objectives:

S.O.1.1 Improving the cooperation and territorial integration
S.O.1.2. Improving the integration process of the strategic documents at local authorities level
S.O.1.3. Increasing the number of projects developed in the area of Smart City/Village
S.O.1.4. Improving public administration capacity to offer interconnected quality public services
S.O.1.5. Increasing the stakeholder’s capacity to offer quality services

Some measures of the action plan of the policy instrument on G.O. 1 aim to improve territorial planning, developing key partnerships to implement digital activities in public administration and developing technical infrastructure in order to offer high-quality public services to citizens.

The general objective of the Regional Programme Bucharest-Ilfov 2021-2027 (RP BI 2021-2027) is to contribute to the strategic vision of the Bucharest – Ilfov Region by supporting smart, sustainable and inclusive economic development in order to improve living standards by promoting innovation, digitalisation, fair access to modern public services, education and business opportunities.
RP BI 2021-2027 contributes to the fulfilment of the regional development objectives (RDO) established in the Regional Development Plan for Bucharest-Ilfov 2021-2027 and in the Smart Specialization Strategy RIS3 Bucharest-Ilfov.
The project will address the RDO 5 “Increasing the level of digitalisation of the economy and public administration and implementing the concept of the smart city” which is translated in the Priority Axis 2 “A digitized region” and particularized as SO 1.2 “Harnessing the benefits of digitalisation for the benefit of citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities (ERDF)”, Action 2.1. ”Support for the digitalisation of public administration through platforms or other innovative digital solutions for the delivery of public services and smart city type applications”.
This Action will be in line with Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of the public sector bodies and thus will be encouraged the development, use and deployment of artificial intelligence-based language technologies will be encouraged.

Data Strategy will:
- focus on improving decision-making, enhancing operational efficiency, fostering innovation and providing better services to citizens.
- outline the municipality's data approach i.e. data privacy and security, data quality and integrity, open data initiatives, collaboration and partnerships, transparency and ethical considerations.
- identify priority and focus areas or domains of data initiatives. These priorities would be based on the municipality's specific needs and challenges, e.g. mobility, education, urban planning, environmental sustainability and climate neutrality, public safety and healthcare.
- include specific measures and targets to assess progress and success (e.g.data utilization, data quality improvements, cost savings, citizens satisfaction level, data-driven projects etc.)
- define roles and responsibilities for data management and ownership, establish data standards and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, data sharing agreements and access controls
- consider the necessary data infrastructure to support data-driven initiatives incl. data storage and management systems, data integration and interoperability mechanisms, data analytics tools and platforms
- include training programs, workshops, and initiatives to enhance data literacy, analytical skills, and data-driven decision-making capabilities of municipal staff
- promote collaboration, data co-creation and engagement of stakeholders in leveraging data for societal benefit