City of Tampere, Finland CASE STUDY GOVERNMENT Tampere is Finland’s second-largest city, and its fastest growing. It is active in promoting smart city initiatives to benefit citizens and attract business investment and jobs. Tampere’s ITS Factory is an innovation community and testbed for universities, city authorities and companies of all sizes, from start-ups to large corporations. “The City of Tampere is a pioneer in smart city development. The STREETLIFE project is a good example of an initiative which grew from Tampere’s ITS Factory innovation community and testbed, where the City acts as enabler and companies can pilot and test new intelligent transport applications with real users. Everybody benefits from this co-operation—the citizen, authorities an

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