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The following are concrete examples of how your community can implement, with the help of Greenshift Europe, the principles of the EUROCITIES Green Digital Charter:
GDC Principle: Develop cities as digital platforms for innovation
Example: In awarding new development projects, Community A requires bidders to compete openly online and achieve minimum requirements for "smart" building design, linked to larger public transport and general-access broadband ICT initiatives.
GDC Principle: Promote integrated approaches and large-scale solutions
Example: In cooperation with energy service providers, Community B rolls out a municipally-funded smart-meter program which delivers meters to individual households and provides a public website, and back-end ICT infrastructure, to collect, integrate and share data on household, community and municipality-level energy usage. This is carried out in the context of resident focus groups and awareness campaigns on reducing energy consumption in and around the home, programs to subsidise alternative energy usage, etc.
GDC Principle: Create new partnerships
Example: Community C promotes its signing of the Green Digital Charter by kicking-off creation of a multidisciplinary Green Digital Charter Stakeholder Committee with high-level public and private sector participation by key ICT Suppliers, ICT Managers, City Planners, Resident Committees, Architects and Construction Industry Representatives, Energy Service Providers, City Council members for Buildings and Construction, Transport, Environment, etc. Community C includes representatives from other cities participating in the Green Digital Charter, and from EUROCITIES and other European Institutions, as active advisors to the Stakeholder Committee.
GDC Principle: Demonstrate that cities can lead by practical example
Example: Community D publicises its intention to lower its own ICT carbon footprint by starting a public website dedicated to this initiative. With the help of experts in managing the carbon footprint of ICT, Community D appoints a dedicated, multidisciplinary team to undertake a comprehensive plan to: Create a baseline for its ICT carbon emissions; establish KPIs/targets and milestones for achieving reductions; study and deploy practical solutions to achieve carbon reduction targets, like requiring a carbon impact analysis for all ICT procurement requests; implement tools for monitoring and measuring carbon performance and success toward achieving targets; and carry out a plan for communication, training and sharing best practices to support this initiative.
GDC Principle: Support open innovation
Example: In order to encourage increased energy efficiency in the home, Community E joins a local research institution with a private sector technology consortium and a social landlord in a living labs programme,"residents in residence”, which uses ICT to monitor and track behavior of a community of families at home, in order to test "smart" housing systems in real-life circumstances.