During the European Week of Regions and Cities 2023, a dedicated session was organised to launch LORDIMAS, your digital maturity assessment. The tool is now accessible, and we invite you to discover it at lordimas.espon.eu.

What is it?

LORDIMAS is an interactive tool helping local and regional governments to understand where they are in their digital transformation journey. It will allow local and regional authorities to:

• Evaluate – Assess your own digital maturity, based on seven dimensions, from governance to networking
• Compare – Discover your results in real-time on an interactive dashboard, allowing you to compare the results with other cities and regions in Europe
• Share – Share your success and challenges to promote the European way for digital transformation
• Learn – Get policy recommendations to bring awareness on emerging topics and policy advice

ERRIN’s role in the creation of LORDIMAS

Through its involvement in Living-in.EU movement and the Go Li.EU project, ERRIN participated in the creation of this tool by supporting the Monitoring and Measuring subgroup. Since January 2023, several activities have been implemented:

• Participation in the drafting of the maturity assessment questionnaire, ensuring the recognition of the role of local and regional authorities in digital transformation.
• Presentation of the tool to the Monitoring and Measuring subgroup of Living-in.EU and the ERRIN ICT Working group in May 2023 (more information here) to involve cities and regions in the creation of the tool.
• Integration of ERRIN members, and partners in the DT4REGIONS project, in the BETA test of the LORDIMAS tool, to gather feedback from key end-users of this maturity assessment tool.
• Coordination of the communication efforts for the launch of LORDIMAS

This tool is an interesting opportunity for ERRIN Members, both to assess their digital maturity but also to promote good practices implemented in different digital-related topics and sectors. If it is of interest to ERRIN members, additional activities will be organised through the ICT Working group and the Go Li.EU project.

If you wish to know more about LORDIMAS, please join a dedicated meeting of the Monitoring and Measuring subgroup of Living-in.EU. The meeting will be held on 27 October 2023, from 10:30 to 12:00 (CEST). You can find more information and registration here.

Should you have any questions, feel free to contact rodolphe.doite@errin.eu.