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Smart City Index

Public ranking of digital maturity for 42 Romanian municipalities, based on objective indicators and a transparent methodology.

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Smart City Index Romania is ARSC's evaluation and benchmarking tool for Romanian cities. It measures digital maturity across 7 objective indicators, providing public data, a transparent methodology, and comparable scores for local administrations, institutional partners, investors, and anyone tracking urban digitalization. Reference data collected in April 2026 classifies cities into four maturity levels: Advanced, In Development, Emergent, and Initial.

Key numbers

42 Municipalities evaluated
7 Objective indicators
4 Maturity levels
April 2026 Reference data

What this project does

  • Assessment of 42 municipalities using a publicly documented methodology
  • 7 objective indicators: open data, digital services, infrastructure, investments and more
  • Four maturity levels with interactive map visualization
  • Comparative benchmark for administrations, institutions and investors
  • April 2026 reference data with CSV export capability

How it works

  1. 1

    Public data collection

    ARSC team aggregates open data, official sources, and public documents for each evaluated municipality.

  2. 2

    Apply indicators

    The 7 indicators are applied uniformly: open data, digital services, infrastructure, investments, profile, openness, and performance.

  3. 3

    Validate & verify

    Data is validated against documented sources and published in full for transparency - any administration may request a justified correction.

  4. 4

    Publish & visualise

    Scores are published on an interactive map with maturity tiers, city-to-city comparison, and CSV export.

Certification levels

  • Advanced Digital leader 70-100
  • In Development Consolidated progress 50-69
  • Emergent Capabilities forming 30-49
  • Initial Preliminary stage 0-29

Context

Audience

  • Local administrations
  • Investors
  • Researchers
  • Media

Partners

  • National Institute of Statistics
  • Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation
  • Evaluated municipal administrations
  • ANCOM

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