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Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $45 million investment to help U.S. cities use innovation to tackle urban problems. The foundation invited 80 cities to apply for its Innovation Delivery grants. Innovation Delivery is a model that uses best-in-...
Article - 08/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools
City officials hoping to see more electric vehicles quietly moving along their streets should take note of growing momentum behind wireless EV charging.Car manufacturers are starting to show strong interest in the expedient method of powering up EV...
Article - 08/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation
If you aren’t the person who’s snapping and posting selfies everywhere you go, you may find the trend a bit annoying. Police, however, aren’t tired of selfies. In fact, they want us to snap more of them. It turns out, they’re a huge help in cracking...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the eighth of 17 themes defined in the standard -- health indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services
Shipping cargo has always involved a fair amount of trucking and a pilot project from Council Associate Partner Siemens hopes to make that part of the journey much more environmentally friendly.Siemens is building the first electric highway, it...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Instrumentation and control
The Australian city of Adelaide in June launched AdelaideFree, a wholesale makeover of its free citywide WiFi network. This public-private joint venture involved installing nearly 200 new wireless access points from SCC Lead Partner Cisco. Another...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
CityNext, the smart cities initiative from Council Lead Partner Microsoft, just celebrated its first anniversary and the company is using the occasion to highlight some of its key results so far.The initiative brings together partners, solutions,...
Article - 08/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the seventh of 17 themes defined in the standard – governance indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report...
Article - 08/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Are hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars still a contender in the race for zero-emission automobiles? Or are battery-propelled electric cars so established that fuel cell cars -- vehicles that run on electricity using a fuel cell powered by hydrogen --...
Article - 08/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
For the fourth year in a row, Melbourne, Australia ranks at the top of the international most livable cities index produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It's one of three recent "top cities" lists. Scroll down to read about world cities...
Article - 08/20/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Transportation