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Dr. Nitin Kareer (extreme left) and Smart Cities industry representatives including the founder & director of Smart Cities Council India Pratap Padode (middle row - third from left) at the Mantralaya office. The Smart Cities Council India...
Article - 10/28/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Some of today’s greatest cities benefitted from visionaries who – centuries ago – saw possibilities for civic betterment and made it happen. A compelling example comes from leaders back in the 1800s. Way before the phrase “urban sprawl” had entered...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
A city isn't smart because it uses technology. A city is smart because it uses technology to make its citizens' lives better. This chapter focuses on the "secret sauce" that turns the idea of a smart city into reality – the people who live in the...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
The role of the Readiness Guide is to help you transition to a smart city, at your own pace and on your own terms. This chapter explains the Smart Cities Framework that supports that mission. We think you will find it a useful mechanism to...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
The Readiness Guide is, first and foremost, a collaborative effort. We are grateful for the expertise, the energy and the meticulous diligence of dozens of enthusiastic smart city advocates – subject matter experts from around the world, municipal...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
The Panvel Municipal Council (PMC) is planning to light up about 100 street lights by using bi-gas, using a grant of Rs 25 lakh to revive its defunct bio-gas plant. The plant which was earlier handled by the PMC works department, has now been...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management, Interoperability
In this chapter we refer to transportation as any and every system that moves people around a city. Think of a city’s streets, vehicles, railways, subways, buses, bicycles, streetcars, ferries and so on. All play an essential role in the...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
Advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) will transform the delivery of essential health, education and other human services in powerful ways – and smart cities will ride the wave to ensure a better life for their residents.Let’...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): Readiness Guide
By Barbara ThorntonDoes more citizen engagement really lead to higher tax revenue for a city? The answer: it depends.In cities with a clear process that allows citizens to participate in shaping the budget allocations, local tax revenue collection...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
As building management systems get smarter, in some respects they also become more vulnerable. And while much of the discussion around cybersecurity today is about threats from the outside world, experts at Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric ...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Security and privacy
For MasterCard Chief Products Officer Craig Vosburg, data and intelligence are essential for cities on the path to becoming smart cities, particularly payments data.In an interview with PYMNTS.com, Vosburg outlined why MasterCard, a Council Lead...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Payments, Data management, Interoperability
It wasn’t long ago that the job of a Chief Information Officer involved managing rooms of expensive hardware that served their organization’s data needs. A new survey of state CIOs finds, however, that more and more of that hardware is vanishing...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Finance and procurement
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) or the rate at which infants (below the age of one) die has been a grave concern since long; it has been standing on the top priority for the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India. UP Government comes up with an...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Interoperability
The Ministry of Urban Development has approved the first batch of state level Action Plans under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) aimed at enabling water supply as per the norm and providing water supply and sewerage...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Financing and procurement tools
The Indian government has rolled-out its 'Accessible India' campaign, with a motive to make it convenient for 'Persons with Disabilities' (PwDs) to ease the access of administrative buildings and transport among other things. The 'Accessible India'...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation
Electric buses will barely have to stop, thanks to a new charging system from ABB. The system, which can charge a bus in just a matter of minutes, brings the electric buses closer than ever to the flexibility of diesel-powered coaches.ABB, a Council...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners… 50 companies changing our world: Enel, Cisco, MasterCard, IBM, Intel on Fortune's listIn its 2015 list of 50 companies "that are doing well by doing good," Fortune named Council Lead Partner Enel at...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Policy and leadership
Innovative smart cities solutions come from many sources. Scroll down to learn about competition-winning concepts for drastically reducing landfill waste, a model for zero-energy buildings, outstanding smart city initiatives -- and a new UK...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Waste management
Rare is the city that doesn’t have concerns about food production. In communities where there isn’t enough food, cities have to be part of the solution to find more. And with prolonged droughts in more places, more communities are in this category....
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Built environment, Health and human services
The construction work has started for Navyug Housing and Commercial Project in Allahabad, which is billed as the state's first smart city project in the greenfield category. The Rs 600 crore project situated on the Allahabad-Kanpur highway would be...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development