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Press Release: New Coalition Promises Govtech4all

The Lisbon Council announces that 21 leading government service-delivery agencies from 14 European countries launch #Govtech4all following a call from the European Commission for a European Union GovTech Incubator under the DIGITAL funding programme. The initiative is a four-year collaboration to innovate the way governments deliver citizen services digitally.

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Euractiv, ‘SMEs Central to Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Climate Action, Say Stakeholders’

Euractiv, the pan-European news website specialised in European Union policies, presents the highlights of the High-Level Summit on Powering the Twin Transition hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Lisbon Council on the role of artificial intelligence in achieving the European Union’s twin transition goals and summarises the main results of the landmark Lisbon Council publication Green, Digital and Competitive: An SME Agenda for the 21st Century.

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La Nación, ‘Teniente de Alcalde de Kiev Defiende que “Incluso en Emergencia” Se Puede Digitalizar’

The daily Argentine newspaper La Nación publishes an article on Petro Olenych intervention at The 2022 UserCentriCities Summit convened by the Lisbon Council in Barcelona, Spain.

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Catalan News, ‘What the World Can Learn from Ukraine’s Wartime Technology’

Catalan News publishes an article highlighting Petro Olenych, deputy mayor and chief digital transformation officer in Kyiv, excellent keynote at The 2022 UserCentriCities Summit: What Citizens Need, What Cities Can Deliver convened by the Lisbon Council in Barcelona, Spain.

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News 360, ‘Deputy Mayor of Kiev Argues that «Even in an Emergency» Digitisation Is Possible’

News 360 publishes a summary of Petro Olenych, deputy mayor and chief digital transformation officer of Kyiv, keynote during The 2022 UserCentriCities Summit convened by the Lisbon Council in Barcelona, Spain.

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ANSA, ‘Pmi Italiane 21esime nell’Unione Europea a 27 su Verde e Digitale’

Italy’s National Press Agency (ANSA) publishes an excerpt from Green, Digital and Competitive: An SME Agenda for the 21st Century, a recent policy brief presented during the European Union Green Week 2022. 

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Press Release: Helsinki Wins UserCentriCities Award for Best User-Centric Service

Bringing together leading European cities and regions, policymakers and and thought leaders in user-centric local public administration, the UserCentriCities network convened The 2022 UserCentriCities Award Ceremony in Espoo, Finland to deliver the prize for the best user-centric service in Europe.

Mikko Rusama, chief digital officer of the city of Helsinki, accepted the award for the pre-primary education allocation service developed by the city and delivered proactively to parents by SMS.

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