Policy Brief DEMO
The AI Act and local government: which obligations reach a city hall
Most municipal AI use is not high risk, but the exceptions are concentrated in exactly the services cities are most eager to automate.
ESCA Intelligence
Policy Briefs
Each brief answers three questions in the first screen: what changed, why it matters for cities, and what cities should do about it. If those three cannot be answered, the brief is not published.
Published policy briefs
Policy Brief DEMO
NIS2 and municipalities: what actually changes at city level
Cybersecurity obligations reach further into municipal operations than most administrations have assumed, and the accountability sits with management, not with the IT department.
Policy Brief DEMO
Writing urban technology tenders that SMEs can actually win
Most municipal technology tenders exclude smaller suppliers through requirements that have nothing to do with the work.
Intelligence
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