 digitization has a large potential to support us reaching the sustainable development goals and that's not only true for the STG number 11 which is Smart Cities but for a lot of other of this DG managing water for example digital solutions have a high potential to optimize the usage of fresh water to manage wastewater just as one example but it is very important to bring all this data together onto a platform to avoid the creation of data silos make data available and use this data on the one side to increase the quality of life of citizens living in a city and to reduce the cost of operating the city and finally to reduce the carbon footprint our daily life is creating the most important steps include creating transformative portfolios cities are having a lot of experimentations projects implementations but they're often staying as a fragmented effort and also disconnected efforts and we are missing the learning and reflections opportunities so instead of focusing on the single fragmented solutions we want to see interconnected portfolios also it's very important to think about financing part of it how to mobilize funding both from private and public sectors and also how to redirect the funds that we have now