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Smart City Bonn

Bonn Digital Factory 2023: Discover and experience the digital

On Saturday, September 23, 2023, the first Bonn Digital Factory took place at THE 9TH Coworking Space. With the Digital Factory, the Digital City team from Bonn Economic Development invited people to discover and experience various aspects of the digital transformation.

At numerous stands, visitors were able to talk to colleagues from the administration and the city group about open data, the Citykey app or innovations from Stadtwerke and have the digital solutions explained to them. The City Museum presented the "City Stories" app with the help of the cargo bike and showed a new exhibition on citizen participation for the first time on the adjacent sidewalks of the location. Bonnorange presented prototypes of sensors that are intended to improve safety on cycle paths in the future. SWB Verwertung presented the "Andi Arbeit" robot and explained how it can make work at the waste recycling plant easier in the future. A total of 44 files were produced in 15.4 hours of printing time on the 3D printers of the "MakeCity Bonn" project and the Bonn City Library. 18 qualitative interviews were conducted at the e-government and OZG team stand, which will be incorporated into the improvement of online services in the medium term. In addition, the possibilities of the service portal were explained to many visitors and actively promoted.

After the opening by Deputy Mayor Dr. Ursula Sautter and business promoter Victoria Appelbe, innovation promoter Steffen Budweg gave the first keynote speech on the topic of "Citizen participation and digitalization". He spoke about two core theses, each of which was backed up with examples: "Participation needs digital tools" and "Digital tools need participation". In the second keynote speech of the day, Larissa Bolte from the Sustainable AI Lab at the University of Bonn explained the various forms of artificial intelligence and where sustainability aspects are not given enough attention.

Many good conversations were held around the exhibition stands. Old contacts were refreshed and new ones made. The exchange took place between citizens and the administration as well as within the city group and with political representatives and scientific institutions.

Deputy Mayor Dr. Ursula Sautter
Jana Hevendehl explains the Internet of Things.
Small robot in the Robofun workshop
Larissa Bolte on artificial intelligence and sustainability
Live artist Eva Ewerhart with the graphic recording.
Presenter Sascha Förster opens the digital factory
Waste garbage can with sensors from Bonnorange
Steffen Budweg during the first keynote speech

Workshops

You could visit the following workshops at the Digitalfabrik. If you have any questions or are interested in one of the workshops, please contact us at the following email address:  digitalestadtbonnde

Interactive exhibition

At the exhibition, the following participants from the administration and the city group presented themselves at hands-on stands:

  • Economic Development of the City of Bonn
  • Team "E-Government" of the City of Bonn
  • Urban Data Management team from the City of Bonn
  • CDO (Chief Digital Officer) and team of the City of Bonn
  • Bonn City Museum
  • Bonn City Library
  • SWB Stadtwerke Bonn
  • MVA waste recycling plant Bonn
  • bonnorange AöR
  • Bonneum, a project of the Bonn City Education Authority in cooperation with the Cologne District Government, Deutsche Telekom Foundation, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and St. Gallen University of Education
  • MakeCityBonn, a project by the City of Bonn, Deutsche Telekom Foundation, Makerspace Bonn and Roberta Initiative, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Citykey, an app developed by Deutsche Telekom AG with cities