Centre for the Digital and Green Transformation in Cities and Communities

Denmark launched several successful initiatives in 2020 and 2021 to ensure open data and more public services that are digitalised, user-friendly and accessible to all citizens and companies. However, there is still growing need to strengthen digitalisation based on access to data and to help with the green transition in the region. It may often be difficult for enterprises to get access to relevant data because of the voluntary basis and the lack of knowledge to provide, collect, store, use and share information while protecting intellectual property and complying with GPDR, that leads to limited data and problems to build assessment tools. Also, the available sources do not often allow for the comprehensive assessment of circular economy aspects such as changes in material stocks, waste generation and servitization of commodities. And, although Denmark has made a lot of progress on granting access to public data through different  initiatives, companies are still behind on maximising the potential of data.