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(inspiration) Smart city and digital elements Flemish government declaration

The three political party negociators agreed on a common governmental declaration, that - at the time of writing - still needs approval by the different political parties.

A quick scan on the document reveals following elements:
On Smart City:
- continuation of Smart Flanders as basis and possible increase of program by VLAIO
- Antwerp as city of things living lab
- Open Data
- on environment belief that smart technology will help air quality

E-gov:
- continuation of Vlaanderen Radikaal Digitaal program (e-gov data exchange mainly)
- a digital first principle
- some projects like MAGDA put in the picture as important

Mobility:
- focus on intermodality and the increase of mobipoints
- quick electric chargers
- belief in flying drones everywhere and in self-driving cars
- ITS intelligent road infrastructure

Digital transformation:
- 1 plan for digital transformation and AI for Flanders
- focus on AI for Flanders, cybersecurity

Striking elements
 - The Flemish Governent will invest substantially in 5G shared infrastructure with a common level playing field between players
- The Flemish Government will pay for a second edition of  supernova event - ( the name is not indicated as such.)

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