Amsterdam, Barcelona and San Francisco have moved to create a shared services partnership for mobile devices in a bid to harness the potential of data.

The project which is the first of its kind, will see San Francisco's Department of the Environment, Amsterdam's Economic Board and Barcelona City Council, develop a shared services platform for mobile device data.

The program is designed to increase the value of the large quantities of data that generated by ‘smart’ cities, which are being currently collected, but underutilised.

The three cities will work together with open platform developer Cityzenith, to develop apps, allowing users to access data sources from mobile devices, in a bid to gain real insights and created efficiencies and streamline operations.

Cityzenith expects the shared services partnership to expand to include new cities over the next few months.

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