DAG-CIG: A Data-centric Ecosystem to Facilitate Agile Development of Municipalities to Meet Climate Goals

Purpose and goal:

New agile way to implement municipal development projects. Infrastructure for municipalities to plan based on evidence derived from sensor data in real time. Municipalities can make more informed and faster decisions, to better meet climate goals and a circular ecosystem. Efficient municipal resource use.

Low-budget perspective that supports circular objective and climate goals. Effective collaboration with project partners for knowledge transfer to benefit from insights. Spread knowledge through contacts and presentations of project results at conferences and workshops. Expected results and effects:

Opportunities to speed up the green and digital transition with a clear systems perspective.

Potential to contribute positively to increased gender equality and other global objective in Agenda 2030, as well as minimize the negative effects. Enable visualizations of collected sensor data for practical use in decision-making in municipalities.

Work with agile and design-thinking methods to bring together different stakeholders and to help municipalities do quantitative-evidence-based incremental planning. Approach and implementation:

Regular meetings were held in the whole project team consisting of five people. The project team was also divided into two subgroups, where one group was dedicated to the selection of sensors and how to compute real-time data from sensors, and one group dedicated to stakeholders’ needs and visualization of data. We applied a Design Thinking methodology in the project, as an iterative and agile project management method, where feedback is gathered in each iteration, that is preferable where small pilots are implemented.