Vejle Municipality has developed a Climate Plan to achieve a resilient and climate-neutral municipality by 2050. Vejle realised that the CO2 emissions from the municipal operation constitute only 4% of the local emissions. Therefore, partnerships with local stakeholders and emitters are paramount to achieve its climate ambition.
The main goal is to create a technical infrastructure and a visualisation tool called “Do Data”. This tool will be built upon the principles of open data, and its purpose is to monitor and track the implementation of Vejle's municipal climate action plan.
To achieve this ambitious objective, Vejle Municipality will cooperate with the IT consultant company Vimento.
What is the challenge?
Both the business community and civil society in Vejle are ready and willing to adopt the green transition, including implementing actions that reduce environmental and climate impact. Vejle Municipality sees great potential in fostering this development - and supplementing existing climate strategies and efforts by, among other things, illustrating the benefits of using open data. However, it faces many challenges:
Knowledge
- About open data - what open data is and where to find them.
- About access levels to open data.
- About data-driven business models with a green focus.
- About which data is relevant.
Technical
- Which technologies support the use of open data.
- How open data is practically applied.
- What technical requirements exist for data formats.
Regulatory
- Which data can be ethically used and/or shared.
- What legal requirements exist for data sharing and usage.
Organisational
- How to ensure optimal utilization of open data.
- Which data can potentially be made open without compromising company or data security.
- Which procedures and practices are relevant for monitoring climate actions.
How does Data for All help?
The main goal is to create a technical infrastructure and a visualisationtool “Do Data” based on open data principles to track the execution of Vejle’smunicipal climate action plan.
The browser-based tool will provide insights based on user input and/or choices (scenarios/what if-then).
The tool will provide user centered suggestions on potential beneficial focus points – related to one or more prioritized areas in Vejle Municipality’s Climate Plan:
- Strategic energy planning
- Phasing out of oil and natural gas
- Better utilization of biogas
- Green adaptations in agriculture
- Afforestation in municipal areas
- Green mobility
- Climate prevention and adaptation in local plans
- Sustainable construction
- Green procurement policy
Use cases and/or show cases will be shown to the user for inspiration. Based on user input, a list of available open data sources will be suggested.
Participating partners
Vejle Municipality is a local public authority in Denmark with high interest in digital development and innovative solutions. Vejle already offers a range of digital services to both citizens and businesses, among them apps and web-forms to ensure efficiency
and accessibility. It has also developed digital solutions for infrastructure and urban space, and keeps expanding its use of technology and data.
Vimento is a start-up company based in Aalborg, Denmark. Vimento’s origin comes from the telecommunication industry where its founders worked more than seventeen years in planning, developing, and facilitating the telecommunication infrastructure.The company consists of experts within the field of identifying, organising and visualising data from different public and private backgrounds.
Vimento has extensive knowledge within strategic technical developments. This includes applications made from public data extracted from Danish governments and made available to clients, but also services made by request.
