The Local and Regional Digital Indicators (LORDI) is a collaborative effort led by ESPON, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions to develop a methodology and indicator framework to support policy makers, businesses, and citizens to better understand digital transformation at regional and local levels across Europe. 

LORDI has a pan-European perspective, inspired by the common values reflected in the myriad of policies, actions, initiatives and best practices surrounding the topics around digital transformation. It aims to support the achievement of the objectives of the Digital Decade and the scaling up of digital transformation across Europe. In addition, it tries to match the overarching EU-wide goals with the operational needs and priorities of coming from the regional and local levels. 

The indicator framework offers close to 200 indicators that are divided into four main categories which are inspired by the targets of the Digital Decade: 

• Digital infrastructures
• Digital skills
• Digital economy
• Digital government

Targets of the Digital Decade

 While LORDI provides, in its inception, a viable framework for data collection across these key areas, we have only started to collect the data for the Digital Government dimension. For this, we have developed a self-assessment methodology and a tool called LORDIMAS – Local and Regional Digital Maturity Assessment that enables subnational governments to provide their inputs to see where they position in their digital transformation journey. The tool is accessible via: https://lordimas.espon.eu .

 The LORDI performance measurement framework and LORDIMAS self-assessment tool are developed through desk research and expert consultations, and validated together with the cities and key stakeholders, mainly within the Monitoring & Measuring working group within the Living-in.eu movement.