How Bologna is using its data valley to rethink city governance

Bologna’s role in Italy’s Data Valley has given the city access to computing power few municipalities can claim. The Data Valley is a national cluster of high-performance computing and data infrastructure concentrated in Emilia-Romagna, anchoring assets such as the Leonardo supercomputer and the Big Data Technopole.
That capacity is now being channelled into a new approach to governance through the Bologna Digital Twin, which was outlined during a webinar hosted by the European Data Portal, examining how digital twin technologies are being used in practice to support urban policymaking across Europe.
At the centre of Bologna’s effort is a project launched in 2024 that aims to reshape how p...