TrustCity
The TrustCity project aims to create smart cities that people trust. It provides a secure, transparent, and verified model for engaging people in smart cities and communities. The TrustCity project builds a federated business model and provides a solution which focuses on digital solutions to enhance civic mobilization and engagement. Implementing of TrustCity solution in synergy with current City&Me services will in short time provide secured digital tool for local democracy where users can actively participate in shaping the city’s policies, projects and initiatives. The new technology will be tested among a group of 12.000 people in the City of Nis. Once the testing is complete, it will be ready for implementation in other WB6 countries, as well as in European countries. The TrustCity digital solution will comply with eIDAS/eIDAS2, EBSI and GDPR.
- Motivation for the project: The proposed technology blocks are essential for the TrustChain ecosystem to enhance citizen engagement and democratic participation. The DAO system ensures secure and transparent participation in city policies, while the city token rewards program incentivizes active participation with tangible benefits. eID/eIDAS verification enhances security and compliance with GDPR and EBSI standards. Combined with the City&Me platform, these tools create a scalable solution for connected, informed, and active citizens, supporting resilient smart cities and the European Democracy Action Plan.
- Generic use case description: The TrustCity digital solution, as result of this project, will extend current City&Me capabilities to Web3 components including Web3 smart contracts, token creation rules, community management dashboards, tokenomics guidelines, eID and eIDAS-Node integration. With this digital solution connected with proven City&Me platform, the TrustCity as Web3 community will enhance civic mobilization and engagement through the transform and enhance democratic decision-making in urban areas.
- Essential functionalities: Essential functionalities include a DAO system for secure, transparent citizen participation in decision-making, a city token rewards program for incentivizing engagement, eID/eIDAS verification for authenticated user identity, community management dashboards for efficient monitoring, and fair tokenomics guidelines for token distribution.
- How these functionalities can be integrated within the software ecosystem: The novel technology building blocks are expected to enable secure and transparent citizen participation, incentivised engagement through token rewards, authenticated user verification, efficient community management, fair token distribution and compliance with regulatory standards, thereby improving urban governance and community engagement.
- Gap being addressed: The gap being addressed is the lack of secure, transparent and inclusive mechanisms for citizen participation in urban decision-making, which hinders effective community engagement, trust, and democratic governance in smart cities.
- Expected benefits achieved with the novel technology building blocks: The novel technology building blocks are expected to enhance secure and transparent citizen participation, incentivise civic engagement with token rewards, provide authenticated user verification, provide efficient community management tools, enable fair token distribution and comply with regulatory standards.
- Potential demonstration scenario: In Nis, residents use the TrustCity platform to report city issues like potholes or broken streetlights. They log in via the City&Me app, verified through eID. Detailed reports with photos and locations are submitted and prioritized in a DAO system, ensuring transparency. Residents vote on issues' urgency, earning tokens for participation, which can be redeemed for local discounts. City officials use a dashboard to monitor and address issues efficiently, sharing progress updates. This secure, transparent process enhances city services and encourages active civic engagement.
Team
Aleksandar Stamenkovic
Engineer with extensive experience in a digital project management. He has overseen and successfully completed over 150 funded projects in the public, business and non-profit domains
Branko Krsmanovic
Experienced project manager in business planning, sales, goto-market strategy, and creative entrepreneurship.
Entity
City and Me
We empower communities to connect, collaborate and create a sustainable future.
Website: https://cityandme.app/
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