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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
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
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 HEREThe Application is easy, taking about an hour. Tell us your problem, a project that will solve it and give us a letter from a senior city leader about your commitment....
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
With Cities Helping Cities, We Change the World!The Smart Cities Council is launching its 2021 Global Readiness Challenge. The 2021 Readiness Challenge’s theme is ‘cities helping cities.’The Global Readiness Challenge is a rolling-process with new...
Article - 07/12/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Category: Information Center
Regarding Smart Cities Council efforts during COVID-19 crisis.To all our partners that seek to make cities livable, workable and sustainable –We have delayed publishing this letter as we have been busy working with cities and our partners during...
Article - 04/21/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
Collaborative online planning for multi-stakeholder projectsSmart Cities Activator is an online platform that helps cities plan and deploy smart projects.Activator is also the first and only smart city tool for collaborative planning. It can handle...
Article - 01/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator
The 2020 Global Readiness Challenge is the result of many years of hard work including analysis of city needs, challenge design, outreach campaigns and over 45 workshops in North America alone. In this process we learned that face to face...
Article - 01/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
Ask for Help:Use our CONTACT FORM to get in direct contact with an SCC Technical Support individual. Watch a Video:2020 North American Readiness Challenge How to Apply and Maximize Impact to Your Community ( 30 minute Webinar) ...
Article - 01/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
A free work/play trip to Dublin: Enterprise Ireland to host North American smart cities for knowledge exchange Enterprise Ireland (EI) and the Smart Cities Council are partnering to bring North American smart cities to Dublin this December to...
Article - 09/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Commercial drones (remote-controlled unmanned aircraft systems) are too small to be tracked with radar systems and pose a serious risk to pilots. Not only can they cause accidents with aircraft, but they can also be used for a crime-related activity...
Article - 04/20/2019
Active Region(s): Europe
Cork, a university city in southwest Ireland, is on its way to positioning itself as a “World-Class Smart Region,” building on its existing assets to achieve a reputation as a great place to live, work, visit and invest. Part of a collaboration...
Article - 03/12/2019
Active Region(s): Europe
The Port of Tallinn is looking to up its sustainability game starting at square one with port traffic. Let’s dive deeper into the smart port project that will reduce traffic loads and minimize air pollution, thereby affecting the future of Tallinn’s...
Article - 03/03/2019
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Energy
Out of 20 cities evaluated in the UK Smart Cities Index, Leeds placed fifth in terms of smart health initiatives. Thanks to its long-term growth strategy “Getting Leeds Working,” Yorkshire’s largest city has created an Innovation Health Hub that...
Article - 01/24/2019
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Health and human services
Tech corporation ZTE is looking to bring Hungary’s technology up to 21st century standards starting with one major upgrade: a 5G network. While small towns like Szentendre near Budapest have toyed with smart city solutions like Smart Parking systems...
Article - 01/19/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Europe
Category: Citizen engagement strategies and tools
One of the main challenges Krakow faces is quality of life, but now the city is looking to fix that with goals put in place that will make the city a better—and smarter—place to live. From tackling environmental pollution to improving educational...
Article - 12/31/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Economic development
Methanol is typically produced from natural gas or coal, so for cities looking to make the transition to low carbon, what is the solution to going green? At a new waste-to-chemical facility under development in the Port of Rotterdam in the...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Water and wastewater
When it comes to verifying identity on digital applications, passwords are the most common method. But what if cities want to ensure that the citizens accessing their apps are actually who they say they are? Welcome to the world of digital identity...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Security and privacy