At this year's ADV Austria Digital Value / Data Excellence Conference, the position paper developed in cooperation between the Gaia-X Hubs Germany and Austria entitled "Charting the course: Gaia-X and the future of data-centred administration" was presented to a broad public for the first time as part of a panel discussion. The panel included Brigitte Lutz (Board Member Gaia-X Hub Austria & City of Vienna) and co-author and Martin Traunmüller, Scientist at the Centre for Digital Safety & Security at AIT as representatives of Gaia-X Hub Austria, together with Winnie Schöngut, Anna-Lena Meiners, Nora Abu-Oun, Laura Büttner-Quandt as representatives of Gaia-X Hub Germany and Roland Fadrany, COO of Gaia-X AISBL.
Smart cities and smart regions have been developing for at least 20 years as part of a digitalisation trend based on the networking of data in cities and regions. The term describes settlement areas in which the regular use of (ecologically, economically and socially) sustainable products, services, technologies, processes and infrastructures is achieved through highly integrated networking using information and communication technologies. The next step towards networked, data-based administrations of cities and regions is therefore of enormous importance. On the one hand, public services and sovereign tasks will be expanded and improved through the use of data-based systems. On the other hand, more and more public and private stakeholders are being integrated along (digital) value chains. This is emphasised by the growing need to pursue more sustainable and resilient approaches to urban and regional development and to use digital tools and solutions to accelerate the necessary transformation of the energy, transport and infrastructure sectors.
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