Copenhagen to launch world’s first city data marketplace

The City of Copenhagen, in partnership with Hitachi, is set to launch an innovative one-stop shop and market place for public and private data–the City Data Exchange (CDE).

“The new big data platform is expected to provide citizens and businesses access to information, which among other things, can create new technological solutions,” said Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen.

The Copenhagen portal, to be launched on 18 May, follows in the footsteps of similar projects such as the pioneering Leeds Data Mill, which was launched in 2014, but the CDE is the first platform to monetise data and create a city data market.

“The City Data Exchange is a market place where you can buy and sell ...