From year to year it becomes clearer that the municipalities are the most important authority for the realization of Open Government. Here, citizens can and want to play an active role in shaping their living environment. Here, politics has to cope with concrete problems of daily life and the administration has to translate laws into practical action. And here we also have to develop and implement elementary contributions to climate protection and adaptation.

Many citizens want to help develop their cities and communities into climate-neutral communities. This year, at the 9th edition of the event "Offene Kommunen.NRW", we want to explore how Open Government and Open Data can be used to achieve this goal.

But also other topics such as the cooperation of the municipalities with the state of NRW within the framework of the Open Government Pact, the Open Government pilot projects and digital model projects in the municipalities and districts in NRW, the developments in the municipal Open Data portals, the Civic Tech projects initiated by citizens and much more are on the agenda. Many actors from these processes are involved in Wuppertal. The second day of the event is particularly suitable for deepening selected topics.