Assessing Digital Water Governance Systems in Smart Cities

Achieving sufficient sustainability in urban water management systems poses a major challenge for cities across Europe. The Digital-water.city (DWC) project aims to improve the performance of urban water integrated management by means of innovative digital technologies and data The DWC project develops and validates 15 advanced ICT solutions to address a range of current issues in urban water management. Accompanying governance research ensures that these digital solutions are not only developed successfully, but that they are also effectively implemented and actively used by end users. The DWC project developed an assessment framework for digital water governance along five criteria of “governance qualities”: context, extent, coherence, flexibility and intensity. The application of this framework is document in this poster.