NLAB4CIT: a project on civic technologies for co-production of urban services.

Co-production of public services in smart cities can be supported and enabled by digital technologies, but some challenges related to the introduction of innovative technologies must be addressed. The European project NLAB4CIT - Network of Laboratories for Civic Technologies Co-Production aims to validate and spread existing digital solutions for the engagement of citizens in the co-creation of public services at the local level. The project leverages civic approaches to digital technologies, context-based experimentations, and interdisciplinary methods. Expected results are Network of Local Laboratories on civic technology, and an online repository of civic digital technologies, coproduction methodologies, and concrete examples of their implementation in European cities. Local authorities, civil society organizations and research institutions, that are interested in civic technologies for digital co-production, are invited to join the Network

NLAB4CIT - Network of Laboratories for Civic Technologies Co-Production: Digital Services for the Public Administrations of the future

Innovation in social services and PA does not only mean the introduction of new technologies to digitize services and for the optimization of work processes, but it also means rethinking the role that citizens (and businesses) have in the public service creation, production and management together with public servants. NLAB4CIT has the ambition to make public services more accessible making the citizens more active in their design, co-creation and management, demonstrating the applicability of some existing digital solutions in different and new sectors of public services coproduction, widening the understanding of their factor of success and sustainability. The objective of the project is to facilitate citizens access, interaction and active contribution to local public services through co-design, co-creation and co-delivery processes where public administration and citizens collaborate, thanks to digitally enabled innovative solutions (Blockchain, AI, IoT, Augmented Reality, Geolocation in Social Networking, Opinion Formation) that will be provided by a European Network of Civic Technologies Laboratories

Virtual Memory CD8 + T Cells: Origin and Beyond

International audienceThe presence of CD8+ T cells with a memory phenotype in nonimmunized mice has been noted for decades, but it was not until about 2 decades ago that they began to be studied in greater depth. Currently called virtual memory CD8+ T cells, they consist of a heterogeneous group of cells with memory characteristics, without any previous contact with their specific antigens. These cells were identified in mice, but a few years ago, a cell type with characteristics equivalent to the murine ones was described in healthy humans. In this review, we address the different aspects of its biology mainly developed in murine models and what is currently known about its cellular equivalent in humans