Smart Community

We bring people together and improve community life through smartapproaches.

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Introduction

Smart In ‘ Dresden ’, ‘community’ means that there are initiatives in place to make life for people in a community more pleasant and easier. This includes facilitating social interaction, improving municipal services, promoting environmentally friendly measures, enhancing safety in public spaces and providing opportunities for people to play an active role in decision-making.

The aim

Through this active community participation, the quality of life in the city is enhanced, interaction between residents is facilitated, and sustainable development is promoted. With the help of digital platforms, residents can easily get involved in and help shape municipal projects. In this way, Dresden becomes, together, smartand a better place to live.

Smart Community
for the City Council

Dirk Meissner

Shaping the future

Dresden is based on close cooperation between the city and its residents. Digital solutions make everyday life easier and ensure that the needs of the population are directly incorporated into urban development, so that, with everyone’s help, an innovative and sustainable city can be created.

Digital inclusion for all

Thanks to the ‘ Smart ’ community, people can use digital platforms to keep up to date with planning developments, take part in public engagement initiatives and thus play an active role in shaping the city. And anyone can do so, from the comfort of their own home.

Simple, digital local government

The people of Dresden can find out about plans and projects as early as the planning stage and actively have their say, either online or in person. This early involvement makes complex processes understandable and transparent.

Connected solutions for everyday life

Dresden connects people, services, places and data. This provides an easy-to-use and quickly accessible overview of what’s available, as well as the opportunity to help shape innovative solutions for a city worth living in. Tools such as the Livi app and the themed city map serve this purpose.

Smart Community-
s for the economy

Sebastian Weingart (DML-BY)

Future-proof collaboration

Dresden promotes cooperation between businesses and the public sector. Together, they develop innovative digital solutions that strengthen the region as a business hub and connect businesses.

Innovative business models

Businesses benefit from the smart use of urban data. The Smart community fosters innovation by providing data and technologies that enable new business models.

Cross-sector networking

Dresden brings together business and academia, as well as the cultural and creative industries, with other sectors. This enables participants to learn from one another and explore opportunities for joint projects.

Support through digitalisation

The ‘ Smart ’ community helps businesses to fully realise the potential of digitalisation. Start-ups and established companies can find the infrastructure they need here to grow and network.