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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
Montreal -- Quebec, Canada's largest city – already takes pride in its reputation as a digital technology center. Now it wants to be a world-class model of a smart city. It worked hard to decide what route to take.In 2014 Montreal established a...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 13th of 17 themes defined in the standard -- telecommunication and innovation indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46...
Article - 10/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools
As this story from Riverside illustrates, it is hard to cost justify a citywide wireless network for the sole purpose of providing Internet access to cities. One solution -- albeit one that requires collaboration between different departments and...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
In the process of researching our forthcoming Smart Cities Readiness Guide, we learned about the importance of high-speed fiber-optic networks. To quote this useful article from Governing Magazine, "a fiber-optic network can be 200 times faster than...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
We explained how Christchurch New Zealand was taking advantage of a recent earthquake as an excuse to retrofit the city with sensors. But of course you don't want to wait for a natural disaster to motivate the troops. Here's a different option, also...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
One of the tenets of the Smart Cities Council is to "think big and start small." We recommend starting small to get any early win, to build momentum, and to generate savings that can help finance the next project. But only if a city has "thought big...
Article - 06/25/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
Gordon Feller is one of the smart city sector's premier thought leaders. Formerly CEO of the Urban Age Institute, he is now the Director of Urban Innovations at Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. Cisco is a Smart Cities Council Lead Partner...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It's no longer news when a major city announces its intention to be a world leader in smart city services. But it is illuminating to drill down to see what those cities mean by that announcement. And, especially, what kind of smart city applications...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
By most accounts, China has more smart city projects than any other region. Even so, many Westerners assume that the U.S. and Europe will be the leaders in digital government and e-services. Here's a story from China Daily that suggests otherwise...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
A coalition of global cities has combed through 2,500 smart city apps and 456 semi-finalists to choose 23 winners. Many of them are city-scale solutions, such as the proposal to offer free WiFi in the public areas of Lagos. But many are "lightweight...
Article - 05/21/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
Free public Wi-Fi has been a luxury until recently. Now we see evidence that it is gradually becoming a must-have, at least for those cities that hope to attract high-income technology professionals. For instance, Mountain View, California - home to...
Article - 05/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership