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Tiruchi has announced that the draft of the final Smart City Plan will be ready by November 20, following which it would be presented before the stakeholders for another rough of discussion.According to the '100 Smart Cities' mission, the nominated...
Article - 10/15/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Citizen engagement strategies and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
The Smart Cities Challenge has now entered the most critical phase, i.e. preparation of the Smart Cities Proposal, following the appointment of the city-specific consultants.Recently, 37 consulting firms from the government empaneled list were...
Article - 10/10/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Its been little over a month, since the Urban Development Minister of India announced the Smart Cities Challenge after releasing the list of 98 shortlisted smart cities on 27 August, 2015.The Centre in its mission vision and guidelines, has given a...
Article - 10/06/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
A new resource India.SmartCitiesCouncil.com, the website of Smart Cities Council India, was launched on 3 September, 2015, at a regional workshop being conducted by the Ministry of Urban Development for capacity building amid Urban Local Bodies (...
Article - 10/06/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Visioning and roadmapping tools
International and national experts on technologies and smart cities along with urban development officials from across India – constituting 600 cities covering the100 smart cities and 500 AMRUT cities – came together at the Hyderabad International...
Article - 10/06/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Visioning and roadmapping tools
The Andhra Pradesh government, has taken a significant step, by letting Cisco implement 'Proof of Concept' of its smart city model on the MG Road at Vijayawada.For the records, Vijayawada is not part of the three cities shortlisted from the state....
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Smart City Examples, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Coimbatore, is one of the 12 cities selected from the state of Tamil Nadu, had its first joint discussion for its smart city plan was held at the district collectorate on 29 September, 2015.Each of the 98 shortlisted cities, from 35 states and Union...
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Aurangabad one of the ten cities shortlisted from Maharashtra state for the Centre's amibition '100 Smart Cities' mission, has appointed Project Management Consultancy (PMC) for preparation of its Smart City proposal.In order to get maximum feedback...
Article - 10/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Visioning and roadmapping tools
A six-member technical team of urban planning experts from the United Kingdom (UK) are helping West Bengal's New Town Kolkata to develop as a smart city.A team from London-based urban planning organisation Future Cities Catapult (FCC) has started...
Article - 10/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
As part of its initiative to educate and encourage the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to take active part and prepare a smart city plan under the government's amibition '100 Smart Cities' mission, the urban development ministry will host an event called...
Article - 10/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Computing resources, Visioning and roadmapping tools
The consultants which are appointed are a mix of Indian and foreign firms, which include the likes of AECOM India, Alia Consulting, Mahindra Consulting Engineers, Feedback Infra, Jones Lang La Salle, ICRA, Haskoning DHV Consulting, IIDC, Voyants...
Resources - 10/10/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools