The Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative is one of the most important announcements this year about smart city development in Europe. 31 cities has agreed in March to kickstart the use of a shared set of wide-spread, open standards and principles, enabling the development of smart city applications and solutions to reach many cities at once, by making systems interoperable between cities, and within a city.

Now even more cities are joining the OASC. (Full story)

More than 25 new cities from 10 countries had lined up as the initial deadline for sending in expressions of interest to join the OASC 2nd wave was approaching last Friday, June 5. This includes the six Dutch cities from OASC NL—Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort and Enschede—who submitted their signed Letters of Intent on Thursday June 4. 

Additionally, major cities from the UK, Ireland, Slovenia, France, Estonia and Mexico are lining up their participation, with additional cities from existing OASC countries Denmark, Spain, Italy and Brazil also joining, bringing the total OASC count above 50 cities.

“We are delighted and humbled to see so many strong cities from all over coming together to shape the demand-side of a global smart city market,” says Martin Brynskov, chair of the Connected Smart Cities Network Board who are overseeing the OASC Task Force, and continues: “Both capitals and cities with millions of inhabitants as well as small and medium-sized cities are finding they have a role to play in this pragmatic network of networks.”

Talks are ongoing with even more cities from all over the world.

Source: http://connectedsmartcities.eu