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Policy Making Outputs
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DUET is developed by cities for cities. DUET’s digital twins promote data-driven decision making by building a comprehensive, virtual representation of a city's processes. With the right data points, DUET digital twins provide a business-level view that can be used to measure, analyse and predict operational impact across an entire city or region. This end-to-end, real-time, visibility enables cities to understand what is happening across its multi-disciplinary domains and services. With this knowledge, cities can react quickly to events and simulate alternative policy and operational approaches based on real data, as opposed to making assumptions based on generalized expectations.
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Results from DUET that are useful for policy making can be found below.
November 2021:
DUET Local Digital Twin Named Best Enabling Technology at World Smart City Awards
March 2022:
Policy Brief Unlocks Recommendations for Responsible Adoption of Disruptive Public Sector Technology
March 2022:
Policy Brief Unlocks Recommendations for Responsible Adoption of Disruptive Public Sector Technology
March 2022:
Policy Brief Unlocks Recommendations for Responsible Adoption of Disruptive Public Sector Technology
March 2022:
Policy Brief Unlocks Recommendations for Responsible Adoption of Disruptive Public Sector Technology
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Digital Twin Maturity Model Future Ready Phase
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The fourth phase of the model is the achievement of intelligent, AI enabled twins that are ready to tackle a range of policy challenges to create a more resilient and sustainable future. At this stage the twins can ingest and use both structured and unstructured data for cross-domain impact modelling and prediction in real-time. As a result, cities can use the resulting insights to make real-time decisions and longer-term policies with a strong multi-dimensional alignment. Enablers include the fact that digital twin supported information is embedded as an official channel in city leadership decision processes; ethical processes and standards are adopted for AI use and the digital twins can use High Powered Computing (HPC) for its advanced modelling, analytics and predictioning. At this stage, the AI enabled twins should be deemed ‘future ready’.
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Questions to address at this stage include: How are digital twins expected to evolve in the next 5 years? What ethics principles are guiding the use of AI? Is the user experience intuitive?
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Featured Content
This policy brief was created by DUET and a cluster of other digital European projects to help guide cities towards the trustworthy adoption of new technologies for data supported decision making.
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Useful Deliverables from DUET
Ethical principles for data-driven decision making.
EU Cloud Infrastructure (D1.7)
Coming soon.
Security spec for a multi-layered security framework
Guide on the legal necessities for data-driven policy making.
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Other Useful Resources
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EC Ethical AI Working Group: Experts collaboratively working towards ethical guidelines for trustworthy AI along with policy and investment recomendations..
Future of Cities: The Urban Data Platform Plus provides access to the status and trends of cities and regions and to EU supported urban development strategies.