Cities collaborating for a digital future
As technology advances at an ever-increasing pace, the way we live, work, and interact with our environment is constantly evolving. Now, more than ever, it is essential that city leaders come together to discuss and strategise how to harness the power of digital innovation to improve the quality of life for their residents.
That is the goal of the Mayors’ Digital Assembly, the political advisory body that provides guidance to the Living-in.EU movement. On 15 June, the movement organises its first EU Mayors Digital Assembly in Brussels, in the framework of the Brussels Urban Summit 2023. Local, regional, and national policymakers will get together to share their views on what leadership decisions are needed to accompany a city and a region in its digital transformation, and how to ensure that people are placed in the centre of the process.“Digital transformation is not about technologies, but about people changing the way they think and act,” declares Mayor Seppo Määttä. According to him, “mayors and local policymakers have a finger on the pulse of their citizens,” so by engaging in the Mayors’ Digital Assembly, they can convey local voices to the European sphere.