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The 1st SmartCitiesCouncil® - Europe Stakeholders’ Assembly recently took place in Dublin, Ireland on the 9th of November. The day’s theme was Accelerating your innovation economy and focused on how smart city solutions can advance innovation and...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
Providing quality education to more than a million government schools has resulted in the government struggling to offer quality and holistic education to every child. Evidently, according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) 2014...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: The Enablers, Computing resources, Visioning and roadmapping tools
For a perspective on what smart cities means, city leaders, planners and residents will find this speech by Neelie Kroes of the European Commission quite informative. In it she talks about the benefits of opening up and making better use of data to...
Resources - 02/27/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Data management
City leaders and community participants looking for guidance on how to move the smart city discussion into a call for action will find useful advice in this paper. The framework proposed describes a process that will help key stakeholders and city/...
Resources - 02/26/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, The Enablers, Data management, Policy and leadership
To help mayors and other policy makers identify the bottlenecks they face as urbanization accelerates and to propose policy options to tackle such challenges, the World Bank carried out diagnostics called “Urbanization Reviews” in 12 countries...
Resources - 02/26/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: The Enablers, Finance and procurement, Policy frameworks and tools
City officials, city information technology leaders and enterprise architects will glean some of the benefits and challenges of using information technology to solve typical problems that cities face in delivering services to citizens. This paper...
Resources - 02/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
Urban leaders in developing countries who are facing the impacts of rapid urbanization that require massive investments in infrastructure and other assets should find this comprehensive guide helpful. It offers practical advice on how to establish...
Resources - 02/19/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, The Enablers, Finance and procurement