NOVA Cidade Urban Analytics Lab
Information
The NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab is a network of people and organizations, promoted by NOVA IMS – Information Management School, representing the various agents and interests that constitute and lead the construction of the smart city, which collaboratively develops a set of activities aimed at promoting the creation and transfer of applied knowledge in the context of urban intelligence.
Within this network, the NOVA IMS – Urban Analytics Lab intends to make its contribution to the development of a more responsible and solidary society, basing its academic and scientific ambitions in strategic partnerships with scientific and professional communities. In this sense, and in a continuous and sustainable way, NOVA IMS creates partnerships for development, promoting synergies with national and international partnerships in several areas.
At the same time, cities are today spaces for the concentration of people and the creation of wealth and innovation, with their governance to ensure the planning and management of infrastructures and services ensuring quality of life for those who live, work or visit them. NOVA Cidade builds the smart and sustainable cities of the future based on the conviction that urban analytics produces knowledge capable of promoting a paradigm shift in the planning and management of urban spaces.
NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab aims to support the different agents present in the territory to promote and implement urban intelligence and analytics in the following areas:
Governance
Embrace the challenge of smart cities as a model capable of creating a favorable environment for more effective and efficient governance by public entities, based on concrete and current information.
Participation
Promote more active citizen participation, based on the use of information and communication technologies, taking advantage of advanced analytical capabilities.
Environment
Achieve sustainable urban development with economic, social and environmental benefits for all, aiming at the urgent decarbonisation and transition to the circular economy.