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Efforts to create truly smart cities in Arab nations have been uneven so far and recent reports on government services leave no doubt there's room for improvement.“Government services may be good in the big metropolitan cities, but if you are living...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Almost wherever you go in Africa, it’s rare to find electricity. And where there’s power, it’s expensive and unreliable. Council Lead Partner Electricite de France -- EDF -- is trying to change that with an innovative approach that’s already...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy
Mississippi-based Camgian Microsystems, a Council Associate Partner, this week officially released its new Internet of Things (IoT) platform – Egburt -- which aims to revolutionize the way cities and other enterprises collect and monitor their...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Every so often an announcement comes along that signals a tipping point, a point in time where several trends converge to cause a market inflection. Such is the case with the news that -- over the next five years or so -- Florida Power & Light...
Article - 10/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner IBM has launched a series of humanitarian efforts to help contain the spread of Ebola in Africa. They include:A citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
An engineer by trade, Cisco's Cliff Thomas sees "a big wave coming" – and he says its coming hard.He's talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) really starting to kick in with more and more data from sensors and also from citizens. The goal, says...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Alstom has won a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to improve grid resiliency through the advancement of microgrid technology. In partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department and Philadelphia’s public-private economic...
Article - 10/29/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…MasterCard opens NYC innovation hubThe global payments and technology company is housing its emerging payments teams in the heart of the technology community in New York City's Flatiron District. The...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Connectivity
Ooredoo, the communications giant operating across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, has challenged government and industry leaders to address infrastructure roadblocks to enable the next billion people to connect to the...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
A London based property company is on a mission to find the next smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Canary Wharf Group announced this week it is putting £300,000 into its Cognicity Challenge – a series of themed international...
Article - 10/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
A new, five-year collaboration between Council Associate Partner CH2M HILL and The Nature Conservancy, a member of the Council's Advisory Board, aims to bring innovative and integrated engineering and environmental solutions into the global...
Article - 10/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment
Today's burgeoning metropolis can be a "monster of productivity" – in some cases accounting for three times the gross domestic product of a country.But, said Pedro Ortiz, former deputy mayor of Madrid and author of The Art of Shaping the Metropolis...
Article - 10/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
About one-fifth of the world’s population doesn’t have enough water, a problem that’s only getting worse between droughts and continued population growth. But until the rain returns or other sources are found, geographic information systems (GIS)...
Article - 10/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Computing resources
Lots of people have vivid imaginations. Council Advisor IEEE hopes to turn that creativity into the next big ideas for smart cities.IEEE has launched the Smart City Challenge, an interactive online game that allows the public to submit their...
Article - 10/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Smart City Tools
In a guest post on the MasterCard blog, Council Chairman Jesse Berst provides real-world examples of how cities that have digitized their payments systems are reducing costs at the same time they’re offering citizens more benefits, more convenience...
Article - 10/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
(Chicago) – October 16, 2014 – A new report published by Cisco and the Smart Cities Council polled city leaders in North America on ways to help cities accelerate their smart city initiatives. Released today at the Internet of Things World Forum,...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 14th of 17 themes defined in the standard – transportation indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Transportation, Smart City Tools
As first responders arrive at emergencies involving hazardous chemicals, they have to make fast decisions about how they handle the situation and its victims. A new cloud-based service will help ensure they get more detailed and accurate information...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity
The spread of smart city technologies and policies, developed in response to the rapid growth and change happening in cities around the world, is helping to drive sweeping and fundamental changes in the energy landscape, according to Navigant...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy
A new report published by Cisco and the Smart Cities Council polled city leaders in North America on ways to help cities accelerate their smart city initiatives. Released Thursday at the Internet of Things World Forum in Chicago, the survey provides...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership, Research, publications and web sites