Kristiansand Kommune - By- og Stedsutvikling (Geodata)

Kristiansand Municipal FoU Program

Public Sector Research, Innovation and Experimentation

This site serves as the public entry point for Kristiansand municipality’s work within research, innovation and digital transformation.

Through collaboration between the municipality, academia, students, public agencies and industry partners, we explore new approaches, technologies and service concepts before major investments and procurements are carried out.

The goal is simple:

Understand first. Specify second. Procure last.

About the FoU Program

The FoU Program was established to strengthen the municipality’s ability to:

Explore real-world challenges
Validate needs and hypotheses
Develop and test MVPs
Build internal capability
Reduce procurement risk
Share lessons learned openly

Areas of focus include:

Artificial Intelligence
Planning and Building Services
Geospatial Information
Digital Citizen Services
Data Sharing
Public Sector Digitalization

Explore

📚 FoU Public

The public archive containing documentation, reports, presentations, methodologies and project results.

➡️ https://github.com/KrsGeodata/FoU_Public

🧪 K-LABS

K-LABS acts as Kristiansand municipality’s public innovation laboratory and experimentation platform.

Published material includes:

MVPs
Prototypes
Demonstrators
Technology experiments
Research outcomes

🌐 http://labs.geokrs.no

Working Principles

We believe in:

Open innovation
Practical experimentation
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Early validation
Knowledge sharing
Reuse across organizations

Whenever possible, methods, documentation, lessons learned and code are published openly for others to build upon.

Current Areas of Interest

Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
Planning and Building Services
Geospatial Data and Digital Twins
Data-driven Decision Support
Student-driven Innovation Projects
Municipal Service Development

Contact

Kristiansand Municipality

Planning and Building Services

🌐 https://labs.geokrs.no

📚 https://github.com/KrsGeodata/FoU_Public

Licensing

Licensing and usage rights are governed by the individual projects and repositories where the source material is maintained.