Strong Danish traditions for building smart cities
Denmark has become a preferred living lab for testing and developing smart city technologies, owing to easy collaboration with academia, the public sector and industry. In fact, according to the most recent ranking mapping smart cities across the EU, Denmark is a European smart city leader.
This is due to the fact, that Danes are early adopters of new technologies and that Denmark has a long tradition of citizen involvement in urban planning and development. Hence, today around 50% of the 98 municipalities in Denmark are engaged in smart city activities, and 80% plans to increase their engagement the coming years.
The project Smart City World Labs will run over 2 years as a pilot project and then be scaled to other cities, mainly in Asia. Over 40 Danish companies, organizations, universities and counties have already declared their interest in partaking in the consortium.