Shaping Co-creation & Collaboration in Smart Cities - A playbook for local and regional governments

Launched in 2020, UN-Habitat’s flagship programme ‘People-centered Smart Cities’ acknowledges the transformative potential that digital technologies can have for sustainable urban development. Through the people-centered smart cities flagship programme, UN- Habitat provides strategic and technical support on digital transformation to national, regional and local governments. ‘Shaping Co-creation & Collaboration in Smart Cities’ is one of the new playbook that are key normative components of UN-Habitat’s people-centered smart cities flagship programme. This new serie of playbooks aim to empower local governments to take a multi-stakeholder approach to digital transformation that realizes sustainability, inclusivity, prosperity and human rights for the benefit of all. To that end, local, regional and national governments will find pragmatic guidance for how to develop smart city strategies that are more inclusive, sustainable, and aligned to the actual needs of residents. This playbook provides guidance to municipalities to accomplish goals in each area that can drive achievement of the SDGs and spark the development of people-centred smart cities. This playbook is broken down into three activities that support the Community Pillar of the people-centred smart city approach.