February 2018
As Smart City projects continue to expand and evolve, data sharing sits at the intersection of business opportunities and technology developments. Cities can certainly benefit from data sharing across Smart City applications and sectors, but sharing among cities, as well as the development of data exchanges and marketplaces, will signal that Smart Cities are moving to the next level of value creation for citizens and local government.
This report assesses data sharing alternatives for Smart Cities and proposes a blueprint for a common framework, a set of critical components and an evolutionary path from data collection to data monetization.