The focus was on citizen engagement, policy and governance. The presentations were broadly diversified and covered both, the handling of private data in the context of smart cities as well as the creation of surveys. The issue of election observation, including e-voting, was also important. In addition, a workshop was focused on the intensified introduction of technology into the administration as well as the collaborative processes between decision-makers, citizens and representatives from industry.

Evanela Lapi, Philipp Lämmel, Robert Scholz, Nikolay Tcholtchev and Ina Schieferdecker, researchers at Fraunhofer FOKUS, also contributed their paper “Towards an Open Data-Based ICT Reference Architecture for Smart Cities”. By using the modules in the individual Triangulum partner cities, an ICT reference architecture for smart cities was designed. Main aspects were open data, interoperability and reusability.