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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
While Trondheim only has a population of 193,000 residents, the historic city ranks the third largest in Norway. The city, which is home to 30,000 students alone, is slowly catching up to Nordic neighbours like Stockholm and Helsinki, which are...
Article - 06/05/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Energy, Transportation
Getting young people excited about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a positive outcome any way you look at it. Getting them excited about how they can use STEM to solve environmental challenges is better yet. That’s what UL and...
Article - 08/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Earlier this year we quoted Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent calling it a terrible thing when 75 million young people are ready to enter the workforce but can't find jobs and opportunities to create value. And it is terrible thing that affects way too many...
Article - 08/09/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
At Google's campus in Silicon Valley this week, teams of girls ages 10 to 18 are competing in an international mobile app competition. The Technovation World Pitch Summit promotes STEM education by encouraging girls to learn and apply technology to...
Article - 08/09/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
There's definitely a move toward more evidence-based decision-making in the social services sector. Much of what drives that, of course, is the increasing amount of data available to inform those decisions. Read below how the World Bank and...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Herndon, VA-based Smart City Works is an infrastructure actuator and business accelerator focused on improving livability, operations and resilience in cities. Its fall cohort will for the first time include two slots for nonprofits focused on...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Upward Mobility
We frequently write about efforts to encourage more girls and minorities to pursue career paths in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM). Recent examples include UL's free program that promotes STEM learning in middle schools and the new...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Two billion people in the world remain financially excluded, according to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a financial inclusion think tank housed at the World Bank. They lack access to basic financial services such as savings accounts...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...
Article - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water