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The Smart Cities Council announced its first cohort of Readiness Challenge Winners for 2021 – specifically Brisbane, Queensland, Australia / Nashville, Tennessee, USA / Orange County, Florida, USAThese cities...
Article - 02/10/2021
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
The Smart Cities Council has announced that Brisbane, Queensland Australia is one of three (3) global Readiness Challenge winners from its 2020 application process.The other two Readiness Challenge winners areOrange County, Florida,...
Article - 02/08/2021
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Nashville's Courage Makes It a 2021 Readiness Challenge WinnerThe Smart Cities Council has announced that Nashville, Tennessee, USA is one of three (3) Readiness Challenge Winners from 2020 - kick-starting the Council's 2021 Readiness Program. ...
Article - 02/07/2021
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Orange County, Florida's Commitment to Sustainability makes it a Readiness Challenge 2021 Winner!The Smart Cities Council has announced that Orange County, Florida, USA is one of three (3) Readiness Challenge Winners - kick-starting the Council's...
Article - 02/07/2021
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
How the New Administration Might Impact Small Businesses Serving Local GovernmentsThe Biden Administration is likely to provide a very different environment for businesses providing all types of “smart” services, and this holds particularly true not...
Article - 01/27/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Nashville accelerates delivery of services to its residentsOne of the ways Nashville is delivering services to its residents is by participating in the Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. To participate, a city must have leadership commitment...
Article - 01/27/2021
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Fifth Session Nashville Mitigation of Urban Flooding (12/9/20)Using sensors and edge devices to mitigate the impact of urban flooding. Review of low cost sensors from solution providers.See and download presentations below from HiFy, Green Stream...
Article - 01/21/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
4th Session Nashville Mitigating the Impact of Urban Flooding (12/2/20)Presentations about using sensors, IT architecture and analytics by North East Ohio Regional Sewer District (Cleveland) and the Town of Cary, NC.See and download presentations...
Article - 01/21/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
3rd Session Nashville Mitgation of Urban Flooding (11/24/20)Department of Homeland Security, US Government - resilience and technology for mitigating the impact of urban flooding.Georgia Tech - A high-density deployment of smart sea level sensors to...
Article - 01/21/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
2nd Session Nashville Mitigatating the Impact of Urban Flooding (11/18/20)Policy objectives that require data to make informed decisions. Master Planning perspective from city of Nashville. Focus on ‘Equity in Design’ Topics/AgendaPolicy...
Article - 01/21/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
1st Session Nashville Mitigating the Impact of Urban Flooding (10/20/20)See agenda/topic list below. See video where Nashville explains the problem. Download their presentation and the US Water Alliance 'Water Rising' report which provided a...
Article - 01/21/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator, Smart Cities Week
NOTE: This article was written before the inauguration and will be updated with practical advice on how to get 'ready' for Biden Administration smart city and infrastructure grants and opportunities. Subscribe to get updates (see top right...
Article - 01/04/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Begin Rating ProcessVote for the cities you would like to see lead Readiness Cohorts. See more information about each city's projects below.Smart Cities Council Readiness ChallengeOur goal is to invite cities to provide information about their...
Article - 11/18/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Smart Cities Council Partners have the unique opportunity to engage with multiple cities at the same time working together using the Council's Smart Cities Activator Platform. Here is an example of how the process works. You can download the PDF and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
About half the cities I talk to say they are the next Silicon Valley for their country or region. They love branding their city as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurialism with no clear understanding of what Silicon Valley had to do to become...
Article - 09/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Led by Carlos Rivero, the CDO for the Commonwealth of Virginia (USA), this panel at Smart Cities Week Global 2020 will be exploring how cities around the world are implementing open data initiatives.Register to attend Smart Cities Week here (free.)...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
In 2015, Stephen Adler, the Chief Information Strategist for IBM stated that IBM’s view about ‘smart cities’ was that a smart city was ‘self-aware.’ Peter Hirshberg, the Chairman of the City Innovate Foundation stated probably more comprehensively...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN
Urban flooding is the most common disaster in the United StatesFlooding is the most common natural disaster in the United States. As reported by the University of Maryland and Texas A&M (Galveston) in 2018, in its report titled ‘The Growing...
Article - 09/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
 Apply to become a Readiness Cohort Leader for the 2nd Quarter of 2021 HEREApplications are due April 15, 2021The Application is easy, taking about an hour. Tell us your problem, a project that will solve it and give us a letter from a...
Article - 08/20/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
The Smart Cities Council is one of the world’s leading voices on the future of cities. For more than 8 years we have been supporting cities around the world in their pursuit to embrace technology and data as a force for good. We have...
Article - 07/13/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online