DKSR, the Data Competence Center for Cities and Regions, supports all cities and regions in the data-based development of sustainable, smart municipalities. As a joint spin-off company of Telekom, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, [ui!] GmbH, and axxessio GmbH, we bring competence and advice on strategic urban data usage to all areas and enable municipalities and municipal companies to face current challenges confidently and safely by using digital solutions. With our open-source data platform and our network, we create comprehensive scalability and synergy effects for all our partners. DKSR offers: • An open-source urban data platform based on the latest standards, which has already been tested and is in use in over 40 cities • Networking via our community, joining for the further development of solutions and for the exchange of use cases • Support and advisory services for municipalities and municipal partners • Extensive expertise and know-how from the Fraunhofer Morgenstadt Initiative • The connection of all common data sources and applications for a comprehensive representation of the growing Smart City ecosystem • Data sovereignty via IDS connector - the basis for the European cloud solution GAIA-X • Data inventory using a standardized metadata vocabulary • A FIWARE-certified integration of the Orion Context Broker