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The first smart city initiatives were launched more than a decade ago, with technology companies blazing the trail. Major global tech firms, industrial giants, and telecoms have become providers of smart city systems and services. The roster has...
Article - 06/29/2018
Active Region(s): India
The launch of the property and construction industry’s landmark carbon positive roadmap will slam the accelerator on Australia’s smart cities market, says the Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand.The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA...
Article - 06/29/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Before Juneau's Housing First Project opened its doors in September, 2017, the city had no supportive housing options for homeless people. Fortunately, that has changed. Providing housing for the homeless presents a variety of challenges for cities...
Article - 06/29/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Health and human services
When it comes to smart cities projects, there’s what people are saying and what people are doing. Our monthly Inside Look series tracks the latter by examining what cities are planning, soliciting and buying. Below, you’ll learn about some of the...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
‘Everyone wins’ with Smart Cities Project Activator, a new Smart Cities Council and Tr3Dent collaboration that accelerates project scoping and financing.Washington, DC June 28th, 2018 — At the Enterprise Ireland IoT & Smart Cities Forum this...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
The small city of Alba Iulia in central Romania is undergoing big changes, attracting the most European funds in the country for projects that are helping to seriously boost tourism. First on the list: the restoration of the 18th century Alba...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation
Earlier this year, the European Commission took six EU countries to court. The offence: breaking the law on air pollution. In Germany, the “car capital” of Stuttgart—one of the most polluted cities in the country—continuously reached levels of 82...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation
A smart city is not automatically an equitable city unless its leaders take care to make it so. Some critics assert that the entire push to make cities smart is mainly about making life more convenient for the affluent. Young and digital-savvy...
Article - 06/28/2018
Active Region(s): India
In 2011, Moscow confronted a crisis: its roads had reached capacity, leading to some of the worst gridlock in the world. In response, the city government developed a comprehensive transportation plan. Its strategy for future construction projects to...
Article - 06/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
As urbanization, industrialization, and consumption grow, environmental pressures multiply. While technology is only one option for addressing these issues, it can be a powerful one. Overall, analysis finds that deploying a range of applications to...
Article - 06/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
After a decade of experimentation, smart cities are entering a new phase. Although they are only one part of the full tool kit for making a city great, digital solutions are the most powerful and cost-effective additions to that tool kit in many...
Article - 06/25/2018
Active Region(s): India
Two months ago we shared a story about San Jose's agreement with Council Global Lead Partner AT&T for the deployment of small cell technology to improve citywide wireless communications, enhance its first responders communications network,...
Article - 06/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
Edmonton is like many other cities. Its population is growing and it's facing expensive infrastructure upgrades. One of the city's needed upgrades is traffic signals — at about 400 intersections. Knowing the upgrades are necessary, the city is...
Article - 06/22/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
Do smart cities initiatives really make a difference? Ask Philadelphia, which found a way to trim more than 200 hours — nearly five and a half weeks — from a time-consuming process. It’s a reduction of about 90%. The savings are real.Philadelphia is...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
Cities that have evolved organically over centuries or even millennia can be challenging to retrofit with technology. Urban planning mistakes of the past, such as sprawl, may be deeply rooted, and creaky legacy infrastructure is hard to overhaul....
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute gauged each city’s progress in implementation using a checklist of current smart applications to see how many have been rolled out. The reports use a weighted composite of city-wide implementation as well...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
Tens of millions of people in cities as diverse as Jakarta, Bengaluru, Rio, Nairobi, Seoul, and Atlanta begin and end every workday fuming in traffic or piling onto overcrowded buses and trains. Improving the daily commute is critical to the quality...
Article - 06/21/2018
Active Region(s): India
A smart city is a complex organism of people, governments and organisations that requires holistic solutions — which is why Council Global Lead Partner Hitachi and the Smart Cities Council brought together a group of experts in March to explore the...
Article - 06/20/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
When a digital transaction can be 50 times less expensive than one conducted face-to-face, it's easy to see why local governments should embrace digital.Around the world digital city services are boosting citizen engagement and satisfaction,...
Article - 06/20/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Citizen engagement strategies and tools
We’ve been working on it since December of last year, and finally it's been revealed: the preliminary program for Smart Cities Week Australia.This year, Smart Cities Week Australia will showcase the world's most dynamic smart cities market — from...
Article - 06/20/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Smart City Tools