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There are significant benefits to be gained when communities use data to engage citizens, deliver services, and share resources. Civically minded teams including governments, commercial partners, university researchers and NGOs around the world are working together to deliver these benefits. OpenCommons provides a platform for this collaboration.
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Current community services are held back by two challenges. First, many current information and communication technology deployments are based on custom systems that are not interoperable, portable between communities, extensible, or cost-effective. Second, a number of implementation and API design efforts are underway but have not yet converged, this creates uncertainty about the best approach and stalls implementation.
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The objective of OpenCommons is to bring together governments, commercial partners, university researchers and NGOs to remove the technical barriers to broad deployment of socially beneficial data services. For an understanding of the outcomes we are striving to achieve see the work of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation exploring the circular economy and Kate Raworth balancing essential human needs and planetary boundaries. Please join us in this effort.
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[[File:IA_Smarter-Cities.png|center|Circular Economy provided by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation]]
<span style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">In 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched an innovative program to help cities improve on successes and build consensus for standards. Known originally as the Global City Teams Challenge and now as the Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC), this group of community, industry, academic, and government stakeholders serves as a collaborative forum to identify, generate and implement advanced technologies for smart and connected communities.</span>


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<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">In 2022, NIST awarded funding to George Mason University (Mason) to conduct a two-part workshop series to develop an integrative and supportive community-centric strategy to inform, strengthen and expand the GCTC program, in an effort to facilitate and enhance advanced technology research, development, and application and develop mission and vision statements to guide the future of the organization.</span></span>
*Modelado Group: Advances distributed computing including high performance, edge and fog computing.
 
*The Cirrus Group: Advances smart city technologies in buildings, transportation, utilities, and much more.
 
*Urban Platform Group: Advances data interoperability, code portable between solutions, and system extensibility.
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<span style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">On January 25 2024 the results of this report were publisher in the [[Media:GCTC_Workshop_Final_Report FINAL.pdf|GCTC Workshop Final Report]]. These workshops provided material from which the Strategic Plan (2024-2026) was developed</span></span>
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<span style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: 600;">Strategic Plan (2024-2026)</span></span>
 
<span style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">The GCTC program has recently published its first Strategic Plan (2024-2026), which describes a 3-year program of research and development and reaffirms a continuing collaboration between the federal smart cities program led by NIST and communities, cities, and regions across the country.  Developed in collaboration with 28 community leaders of the GCTC program, the Strategic Plan has three key goals:</span>
*<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">Establish a research-based, scientific foundation for the NIST Smart Cities Infrastructure program, the GCTC, and the broader smart cities community.</span>
*<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">Broaden the scope and agenda for smart cities to address current challenges and achieve the equitable distribution of outcomes for community residents, businesses, and organizations.</span>
*<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">Enhance the national public-private partnership of smart city programs, research institutions, private sector enterprises, and the next generation of community leaders, scientists, and researchers.</span>
<span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">The GCTC is organized into twelve Technology Sectors, illustrated below, corresponding with city infrastructure, services, and programs that can benefit from the integration of advanced  technologies to enable digital transformation and improve overall quality of life for community residents. </span></span>
 
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<span style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 300;">NIST has received public and stakeholder comments, with a final version now available as a free download [https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.1900-207.pdf from NIST] and [[Media:NIST.SP.1900-207.pdf|here]].</span></span>
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<div class="banner"; style="padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px; background-color: #e0e0e0;"> <p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 16pt; "> [[Special:RequestAccount|We are looking for volunteers to join the GCTC and help shape this framework. To express interest request an account from the link in the upper right hand corner of this site. There you can set up a user account and express your areas of interest. Within 24 hrs you will be sent a temporary password and additional information about how to engage.]]</p>
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Strategy Workshop

In 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched an innovative program to help cities improve on successes and build consensus for standards. Known originally as the Global City Teams Challenge and now as the Global Community Technology Challenge (GCTC), this group of community, industry, academic, and government stakeholders serves as a collaborative forum to identify, generate and implement advanced technologies for smart and connected communities.

In 2022, NIST awarded funding to George Mason University (Mason) to conduct a two-part workshop series to develop an integrative and supportive community-centric strategy to inform, strengthen and expand the GCTC program, in an effort to facilitate and enhance advanced technology research, development, and application and develop mission and vision statements to guide the future of the organization.


Strategy Team Workshop3.jpg GCTC Workshop Final Report FINAL.pdf


On January 25 2024 the results of this report were publisher in the GCTC Workshop Final Report. These workshops provided material from which the Strategic Plan (2024-2026) was developed

Strategic Plan (2024-2026)

The GCTC program has recently published its first Strategic Plan (2024-2026), which describes a 3-year program of research and development and reaffirms a continuing collaboration between the federal smart cities program led by NIST and communities, cities, and regions across the country. Developed in collaboration with 28 community leaders of the GCTC program, the Strategic Plan has three key goals:

  • Establish a research-based, scientific foundation for the NIST Smart Cities Infrastructure program, the GCTC, and the broader smart cities community.
  • Broaden the scope and agenda for smart cities to address current challenges and achieve the equitable distribution of outcomes for community residents, businesses, and organizations.
  • Enhance the national public-private partnership of smart city programs, research institutions, private sector enterprises, and the next generation of community leaders, scientists, and researchers.

The GCTC is organized into twelve Technology Sectors, illustrated below, corresponding with city infrastructure, services, and programs that can benefit from the integration of advanced technologies to enable digital transformation and improve overall quality of life for community residents.

NIST.SP.1900-207.pdf GCTC Org Structure.png

NIST has received public and stakeholder comments, with a final version now available as a free download from NIST and here.