On January 18 to 20 Kristiansand, Lillesand and Karlstads municipality conducted a joint meeting to discuss from a general perspective service development in a municipality. The discussions and presentations focused on e-services development (with some demos), Service center, architecture, communication, workflow and the underlying digital scheme.

The Smart Cities Partners wish you all the best in 2010. This will be an important year for our project. The local and transnational pilots and methods that will be developed during 2010 will contribute to better government services, knowledge and innovation in the North Sea Region.

The Smart Cities regional academic network proposed a work plan on the Steering Committee in December 2009. In 2010 the network will deliver two formative evaluation reports, a range of transnational academic papers, and commission a summative evaluation for the project.

The Smart Cities partners met in Bremerhaven, Germany from the 8th to the 11th of December 2009. In this three day meeting the partners agreed on a huge work programme for 2010: here's an overview.

E-Clic and Smart Cities: same spot, same content, same drive

The Smart Cities project launched a webvideo on the Steering Committee in Bremerhaven. In this movie you meet the partners and the projects running in the countries of the Smart Cities partnership.

Services, service lists and the Smart Cities EU service list project - 2010

EU ministers have committed to developing smarter online public services for citizens and businesses by 2015. The Commission has welcomed this step forward in making eGovernment more accessible, interactive and customised.

The Smart Cities partners develop local pilots. The first results are visible, and knowledge on these pilots is shared in the network. On a meeting in Amsterdam the partners presented their local experiences.

The German cities of Osterholz-Scharmbeck and Oldenburg welcome the Smart Cities partners on 7-8 September. Workshops on product catalogues, evaluation and contact centres will be combined with study visits and informal meetings.

Bremerhaven re-launched the online city portal on Thur 9th July 2009. Under "www.bremerhaven.de" the new designed information pages for public services and tourism were presented to the public officially by the mayor of the City of Bremerhaven, Mr. Jörg Schulz.