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When developing and executing your smart cities plans, are you paying attention to interoperability? Data security? Those have always been best practices, but this year, the consequences for failing to follow them could grow more severe.Council...
Article - 01/05/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Policy and leadership, Security and privacy
It was easy for Illinois to end up in its current situation. Ending up with one of the worst technology platforms of any state didn’t require any effort at all.But even if you’re 40 years behind the times, you shouldn’t give up. Illinois has decided...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
In some ways, a city is the obvious place to organize an effort to benefit from smart technologies. Cities are big enough to have clout and small enough to get something done. Yet in other ways, city-scale efforts face challenges. For one thing,...
Article - 03/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
The latest change in foreign direct investment (FDI) norms linked to the construction sector might help attract private players to the government’s ambitious smart city project. Since the Centre has allocated only Rs 500 crore per city under the...
Article - 11/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Financing and procurement tools
In making an investment in a new city initiative, it’s easy to focus on the financial aspects: how much it costs and how much it’s likely to save. A growing number of cities and even some technology companies are finding there’s something even more...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
It’s a common complaint: U.S. companies say they have lots of jobs available, they just can’t find anyone qualified to do it. President Barack Obama hopes to address that with a sweeping new initiative that stretches from the federal government to...
Article - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Want to see what the mayor of Gainesville, Fla., is up to? You can read his email – LinkedIn requests, bizarre rants from citizens, spam and all. The city commissioners opened their inboxes to public view as well.And the information isn’t hidden...
Article - 07/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
As the Council's Smart Cities Readiness Guide points out, it's one thing for a city to deploy smart infrastructure. But a smart city also needs highly trained workers in both the public and private sector to operate that infrastructure. And skilled...
Article - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
New York City kicked off its fifth Big Apps challenge this week with a special plea from Mayor Bill de Blasio that entrants develop ways to reduce traffic fatalities in the city. Toward that end, the city released a database of all traffic...
Article - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel gave his CTO John Tolva a mission when he took office. "[He] told me, 'I want Chicago to be the Seoul, Korea of North America,'" said Tolva as quoted in a story in Crain's Chicago Business. And now Tolva has a roadmap to get him...
Article - 09/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Policy and leadership
These two related techniques from Government Technology Magazine are not earthshaking in any way. But they do illustrate three important but often overlooked aspects of the smart cities movement.The first is the idea of employee productivity. With...
Article - 09/19/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership, Security and privacy
By now, Rio de Janeiro's Operations Center has become world famous as a smart city exemplar. Indeed, we published a video case study of Rio's control center ourselves. Yet even though it has been widely covered, I think you'll want to take a look at...
Article - 09/04/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Superstorm Sandy was a watershed moment in North America. It forced cities to confront the realities of climate change. Severe weather events will be much more common in the future. How can your city be more resilient? One answer is to enlist help...
Article - 06/19/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources, Policy and leadership