Civitas Digitalis

To achieve this goal, fortiss is working with the project partners on three concrete building blocks.

1. With the citizen sensor, a web-based participation network will be created to collect and generate new services and improve existing ones.
2. The modular innovation process kit will be used to test the services with the participation of the city, service provider companies and citizens.
3. Finally, the innovative and tested services will be merged into an overall solution residing on the Civitas Digitalis platform.

fortiss is responsible for the technical design, open source development and pilot operation of the tools that will be created during the development of the previously-mentioned building blocks. The University of Hamburg and the University of Kassel prepare the corresponding services concepts, while the cities of Hamburg and Kassel implement and test the solutions with citizen involvement. Examples of some of the tools that have been created include an innovative civic engagement platform (“Wake up your inner Hercules”) and an innovative chatbot user interface based on machine learning technology, which is designed to support and help cities more efficiently collect civic engagement ideas.