The three-year innovation plan is to leverage the advanced capabilities of cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) to evolve the traditional public policy-making cycle using large open data sources.

The aim is to help decision-making in the public sector become more democratic and effective, both in the short and long term. This will be achieved through the development and use of Digital Twins for policy impact exploration and experimentation in entire cities and regions. These digital replicas of cities will:

1. enhance day-to-day city management by helping city managers react quickly to real-time events through rapid experimentation of different decision impacts, and
2. ensure long-term policy decisions to be more effective and reliable by enabling city managers from different units to explore and discuss city issues with citizens and business owners in a common, visual, easy-to-digest way.

It will require innovative thinking from multi-sectors to develop transformative solutions. But thanks to the 3D interface, public administrations will, for the first time, harness the collective intelligence of all policy stakeholders more easily to tackle complex, systemic policy problems.