The project addresses opportunities and challenges of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector, particularly in local and regional governments.

AI creates huge potential in transforming cities and regions and their communities and to improve public sector services and to increase productivity and government efficiency. However, AI also presents unforeseen risks and challenges for local and regional government e.g. related to security and safety, ethics, trust and regulatory issues. Cities and regions play an important role in ensuring that the whole of society is involved in and prepared for this major transformation.

By identifying good practices and novel solutions through interregional exchange and co-creation, the project aims at helping local and regional policy makers to improve and create policy mechanisms which facilitate safe and ethical adoption of AI in the public sector, particularly in local and regional governments, thus increasing people’s well-being and the vitality of the cities and regions. The project’s interregional learning process builds on the key elements of the AI governance model and processes, and related AI challenges in local and regional government that in different policy forms and features is the core policy change and improvement developed by the partners in the project.

European Union’s Interreg Europe program

AI4Citizens projects has seven partners: City of Tampere, City of Helsinki, Amsterdam Municipality, Piemonte Innova, Bacau County, Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Development Agency, Riga Local Government Riga Digital Agency (RDA) 

  • Deepen understanding of the capabilities of artificial intelligence for public administration.
  • Identify good practices through inter-regional exchange to support policy makers in the improvement and creation of policy methods (AI governance models) that can facilitate the adoption of AI in the public sector in a safe and ethical way.
  • Formation of regional Stakeholder Committees to collect information, interests and initiatives as well as share project opportunities for capacity building and knowledge sharing.

The Piemonte Innova Foundation acts as partner in the project and will undertake a series of activities between April 2024 and March 2028.

FPI will integrate the technological roadmap of the ICT Innovation Hub with a focus on AI in public administration. Both from the point of view of needs and from the point of view of the solutions available to local businesses.

Local and regional policy makers to improve and create policy mechanisms that facilitate the safe and ethical adoption of AI in the public sector, particularly in local and regional governments.