Smart City Index
Public ranking of digital maturity for 42 Romanian municipalities, based on objective indicators and a transparent methodology.
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
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
Public data collection
ARSC team aggregates open data, official sources, and public documents for each evaluated municipality.
- 2
Apply indicators
The 7 indicators are applied uniformly: open data, digital services, infrastructure, investments, profile, openness, and performance.
- 3
Validate & verify
Data is validated against documented sources and published in full for transparency - any administration may request a justified correction.
- 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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