WORLD SMART CITY AWARDS
Discover the pioneering projects selected for the finals of this year's edition
The annual World Smart City Awards is a prestigious international competition that seeks to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies making cities around the world more livable, sustainable, and economically viable.
After another highly competitive process, with groundbreaking entries sent in from around the globe, we now have our shortlist.
Discover the finalists of the 2025 World Smart City Awards!
WORLD SMART CITY AWARDS - 2025 FINALISTS
The 2025 Call for Awards received 462 top-level proposals from 65 countries. Winners will be announced on November 5!
CITY AWARD
Awarded to cities for developed global strategies combining projects, initiatives and policy implementations for their citizens.
Rome: the City is transforming
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Roma, Italy
Rome’s vision is to reimagine the Eternal City to meet the evolving needs of its people and its future. By leveraging data, 5G, and digital twins, it strengthens urban governance, enhances public services and sustainability, and builds resilience ahead of major challenges like the 2025 Jubilee.
Tech Empowers the Canal City
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Yangzhou, China
Yangzhou utilizes digital tools to boost industrial upgrades, urban governance, and tourism. With policies promoting data, computing, and talent, it ranks among China’s top digital cities. Smart services, eco-monitoring, and AI-driven tourism fuel a livable, sustainable 'Yangzhou Model.'
CRESCER: Pact with nature
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Santiago de Cali, Colombia
CRESCER is Cali’s long-term urban strategy to grow without compromising its environmental or social foundations. Grounded in resilience, equity, sustainability, and respect for nature, it integrates urban planning, social transformation, and environmental restoration – starting from the Cauca River.
INNOVATION AWARD
Awarded to projects with the potential of contributing to the successful transformation, adaptation or response of our cities to current challenges or others that may occur in the future.
ManKiwwa
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Deegenics Pvt Ltd,
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka
ManKiwwa is a civic tech platform that empowers citizens to voice public issues and emergencies in real-time, while notifying and enabling authorities to track, respond to, and manage them efficiently by bridging governance gaps, promoting accountability, and improving urban responsiveness.
Operation Clean Spot
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Sustainable Seas Trust,
Gqeberha, South Africa
Gqeberha, South Africa
OCS helps concerned citizens & businesses in the value chain to reduce land-based litter. By empowering partners with training & support resources to (1) adopt a spot within their communities & (2) keep it clean of waste, SST believes that Africa will decrease the volume of waste entering its seas.
Community by Design
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Together Center,
Redmond, WA, USA
Redmond, WA, USA
Together Center is an inclusive human services hub that integrates affordable and workforce housing. We co-locate over 25 nonprofits on one campus, providing culturally responsive care to 30,000 people annually and advancing equity across East King County.
Weelo MultiFIT Adaptive Hub
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Bicincitta Italia Srl,
Turin, Italy
Turin, Italy
Solar-powered MultiFIT pods provide cities with a plug-&-play hub, offering secure bike parking, delivery lockers, and cargo bays in one. Couriers unload overnight in a single trip; cargo-bikes deliver the next day. One modular pod, infinitely configurable to neighbourhood needs.
Safer Cities - Haryana
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Red Dot Foundation,
Mumbai, India
Mumbai, India
Safer Cities – Haryana uses crowdsourced data from SGBV survivors to map unsafe areas, raise awareness, and train police in empathetic response. Piloted in Faridabad, now in 8 districts, it conducts safety audits to improve public spaces, build trust, and enhance safety of women and girls.
Hambaksan Park : Urban-Nature Connection
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Korea Land & Housing Corporation,
Jinju City, Republic of Korea
Jinju City, Republic of Korea
Hambaksan Park in Pyeongtaek Godeok New Town is a restored egret habitat transformed into an ecological park. Integrating a carbon offset forest, retention basins, and recycled water systems, it embodies an Eco-Sponge Park model, promoting climate resilience and sustainable urban living.
PROJECT AWARDS
These prizes highlight innovative projects making waves within the sectors covered by our main tracks.
CATEGORY
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the fields of data and technology.
City Brain: Ahead of Issues
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Aramco Smart Cities,
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
City Brain is a platform that seamlessly integrates the power of GenAI and Digital Twin to transform the way cities manage their facilities and services. It provides autonomous operations while enhancing citizen experiences. The result: a sustainable, better-living, and connected urban environment.
Sensora.lu Crisis-Tested IoT
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MABU Concepts S.A.,
Stadtbredimus, Luxembourg
Stadtbredimus, Luxembourg
Unified IoT platform integrating all municipal data with Gateways aswell as LoraWAN Gateways with 10km range LoRaWAN sensors. Building automation, energy monitoring, water level detection, weather stations, smart thermostats with Office 365. Crisis-tested flood prevention. Any hardware compatible.
Sunderland: Smart by design
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Sunderland City Council & partner Boldyn Networks,
Sunderland, UK
Sunderland, UK
Sunderland City Council & Boldyn Networks are transforming the city through layered smart innovation – 5G, data‑driven resilience and inclusive digital infrastructure – to deliver accessible connectivity, social value and sustainable economic growth for residents, businesses and visitors.
Smart City Tokyo Bay Takeshiba
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Tokyu Land Corporation,
Japan
Japan
The Tokyo Bay area has a large daytime population and faces issues such as urban use and a lack of disaster prevention measures. Area management utilizes real-time data with multi-stakeholder collaboration to strengthen disaster resilience and promote area circulation by utilizing digital devices.
CATEGORY
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in relating to urban environments.
Smart Agro-Climate Platform
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Ibacho Technical Training College,
Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
A smart agro-climate platform using drones, satellite imagery, and AI to help smallholder farmers in Kenya adapt to climate risks through real-time, localized decision-making tools and predictive models.
Green Power Lights up Future
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The People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality, China
Guangzhou harnesses electricity and green energy to revitalize its urban landscape.Renewable power generation capacity 11.43GW, traded volume of green electricity 1.3B kWh, and green financing $210 million enabled by “Guangzhou Carbon” platform, make the city global first-tier.
LYON CONFLUENCE Digital Twin
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KINTSUGI-LOWCARBON,
Chartres-de-Bretagne, France
Chartres-de-Bretagne, France
Lyon Confluence becomes Europe’s first Positive Energy District, monitored in real time through a digital twin designed by UrbanThinkPlatform®. Climate intelligence serving territories, businesses, and future generations — making climate data useful, visible, and collective.
Smart Crisis Management Platform
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iot squared, Saudi Arabia
Smart Crisis Management Platform is a national platform developed by iot squared to unify Saudi Arabia’s emergency and crisis response. It enables real-time coordination across 17 regions through IoT integration, analytics, and digital command dashboards, transforming fragmented emergency operations into a proactive, data-driven, and resilient national system.
CATEGORY
MOBILITY AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the field of mobility.
Shuttlemare Rimini
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Shotl Transportation SL,
Rimini & Sant Cugat del Vallès,
Italy & Spain
Rimini & Sant Cugat del Vallès,
Italy & Spain
Shuttlemare is an on-demand summer transport service connecting Rimini’s beaches with hotels and residential areas. Operated via Shotl’s platform, it improves accessibility and reduces traffic by dynamically routing shared rides in real time.
AI Transit Stops Inspections
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The Regional Municipality of York and CITYROVER,
Richmond Hill, ON, Canada
Richmond Hill, ON, Canada
York Region, in collaboration with CITYROVER, expanded AI use to buses to inspect over 6,000 stops automatically. The system automatically and proactively detects in real time mobility, safety, cleanliness, and accessibility issues at a great efficiency, supporting faster resolution.
Human-Centered MaaS
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Seongnam City,
Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea
Seongnam City introduces a citizen-centered MaaS platform to bridge transit gaps between old and new urban areas. By integrating transit, shared vehicles, autonomous shuttles, and drone/robot delivery, it enhances mobility with eco-friendly services, targeting full deployment by 2026.
Dosy: Mobility for Inclusion
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Cairo, Egypt
Dosy is a tech platform empowering women through scooter and bicycle training, promoting green, inclusive mobility. It offers online booking, flexible training, and job opportunities for women, tackling gender gaps in transport across urban Egypt.
CATEGORY
INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDING AWARD
BIMFabrikHH
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State Office Geoinformation and Surveying Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg manages and makes a wide variety of data and information available to the public. Much of this data serves for construction projects. As part of the CUT-project, a freely accessible open-source web tool is being developed that automatically creates BIM models from the geospatial twin.
Smarter Homes, Better Living
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Housing & Development Board,
Singapore, Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
HDB’s first smart and sustainable public housing precincts, meticulously planned from inception through an integrated multi-disciplinary approach. Through its comprehensive suite of smart and sustainable features, this precinct creates a more liveable, efficient and sustainable environment.
15min Index within Riyadh City
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Riyadh Region Municipality, Saudi Arabia
15-Minute Index,applied via RUDC platforms and MyCity app, assesses walkable access to daily services in Riyadh.It supports strategic decisions and enhances public experience, promoting liveable, people-centred planning aligned with The Municipality’s vision; Improve the Quality of Life of people.
Morar Melhor Project
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City Hall of Salvador, Brazil
Morar Melhor is a program that makes improvements to precarious homes, promoting health and dignity to residents, without altering the original aesthetics of the buildings, strengthening citizenship and quality of life.
CATEGORY
GOVERNANCE & ECONOMY AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the fields of governance and finance.
Córdoba Smart City Fund
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Córdoba Municipality, Argentina
This initiative by the Córdoba Municipality in collaboration with IDB Lab is the first govtech fund in Latin America. It involves investing in high-impact startups and operates as an open innovation program, where startups implement solutions that contribute to the development of a smarter city.
Data-Driven Governance in Lviv
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Lviv City Council, Ukraine
The integration of Public Budget, E-Petitions, and City Hotline engages citizens in decision-making and ensures transparency. Data from these services form datasets published on the Lviv Open Data Portal, Geoportal, and Dashboard, enabling evidence-based management and tangible urban improvements.
City Deal eInclusion by Design
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Kenniscentrum Vlaamse Steden,
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium
Fourteen major Flemish cities in Belgium co-created “e-inclusion by design”. Guided by service designers and in co-creation with citizens and other stakeholders they redesigned 28 public e-services. They shifted from reactive helpdesks to user-friendly, accessible design built in from the start.
Road Resurfacing Governance
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Riyadh Infrastructure Projects Center (RIPC), Saudi Arabia
The project integrates utility data into a centralized GIS platform to adopt logical sequencing for resurfacing efforts, preventing re-excavations & improving cross-sector governance. This undertaking has led to savings of over 700Mn SAR till date & enhanced the quality of life for 9Mn residents.
CATEGORY
LIVING & INCLUSION AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in relation to inclusive and sharing cities.
Resilient House in Favelas
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TETO Brasil,
São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil
The Resilient House is a climate-adaptive, low-cost transitional home co-designed with communities. Using modular, sustainable materials and passive cooling, it replaces unsafe shacks and is scalable for climate-vulnerable settlements.
My Purple Map Bursa
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Bursa Metropolitan Municipality,
Bursa, Türkiye
Bursa, Türkiye
A digital map-based platform connecting gender-based violence victims in Bursa to nearby support services, enhancing accessibility, safety, and social inclusion through real-time, location-based guidance.
Cruzadas por Juárez
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Juárez Municipal Government, Mexico
This program brings municipal government services directly to peripheral neighborhoods, transforming community spaces into temporary service centers where citizens can address multiple needs in one place, eliminating geographical and economic barriers.
Inclusion on the Waterfront
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Belfast City Council, UK
Working with a local charity, universities and creatives, Belfast City Council delivered collaborated with local communities to utilise digital innovation techniques to explore and enrich the heritage, culture and stories associated with the city’s historic maritime mile, home of the famous Titanic.
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