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Photo credit: UrbanovaUrbanova's smart city living lab has had an enviable roster of collaborators in its efforts to advance smarter cities: the city of Spokane, electric utility Avista, construction engineering firm McKinstry, Council Global Lead...
Article - 11/02/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation
We expect green buildings to operate more efficiently and conserve energy, to be kinder to the environment than traditional buildings and provide a healthier place to live and work. However, when the climate and health benefits are translated into...
Article - 02/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services
The competition for technicians skilled in IT, Big Data and the other technologies smart cities require has been heating up for some time. A broad range of industries, from banking to manufacturing, need talented IT and analytics professionals, too...
Article - 12/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Analytics
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Black & Veatch head procurement, construction for Pennsylvania power plantCouncil Associate Partner Black & Veatch is responsible for engineering, procurement and construction of a new...
Article - 10/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity
For some time, healthcare costs have been exploding at rates faster than virtually everything else. That deprives people of the care they need and strains public health resources.While much of the cost increase is out of a city’s control, you can do...
Article - 09/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services
The research project Council Lead Partner IBM and University College Dublin (UCD) are participating in will concentrate on using cognitive computing to help people make decisions -- in other words, bringing people and computers closer together.To do...
Article - 12/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Analytics
With no access to an electric grid, two primary schools in rural Zambia would have been unable to provide computer science lessons for their students without some technological assistance. Council Lead Partner S&C Electric, in conjunction with...
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Energy, Health and human services
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Panama City intends to get smart with help from Cisco Cisco and Panama City announce plan to work together to turn Panama City into a smart city using Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Smart+Connected...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Microsoft makes $3 million YouthSpark investment in Vietnam's digital futureThe investment is part of Council Lead Partner Microsoft's global YouthSpark commitment to empower young people with...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partnersQualcomm, AMC Health team to improve care for at-risk patientsQualcomm Life, a subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Qualcomm, announced a collaboration with AMC Health, a privately held provider of real...
Article - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
By Pratap Padode Smart Cities Council IndiaThe 2015-2016 Union Budget stayed away from using the term smart cities, unlike the one in 2014-2015 which made a special mention, but that doesn’t imply that the Indian government has lost interest in...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
A post by Philip Henderson on the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) blog points out how much value cities get when they improve the energy efficiency of affordable housing.The post was written on the heels of the announcement last week that...
Article - 02/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partners Cisco and GE are attracting increasing attention for their efforts to bring Big Data to the Internet of Things. But while much of the early focus is on what’s good for business, there’s a lot for cities to get excited about,...
Article - 01/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Analytics
CityNext, the smart cities initiative from Council Lead Partner Microsoft, just celebrated its first anniversary and the company is using the occasion to highlight some of its key results so far.The initiative brings together partners, solutions,...
Article - 08/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for the latest short takes from Council members…CH2M HILL will help modernize Polish railroad: CH2M HILL has been awarded a contract to carry out the feasibility study and design for the electrification of the 278 railway line from...
Article - 07/11/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation
Are you with a startup making groundbreaking progress with smart cities? If your idea would work in Dubai, you could end up featured as a showcase at the upcoming Smart City Living Dubai conference.A contest leading up to the conference hopes to...
Article - 07/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for short takes from Council members:Cisco partners on Asia's first IoT innovation hub: Networking giant Cisco announced a strategic engagement with Electronics City Industries Association to develop Asia’s first end-to-end Internet of...
Article - 07/04/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Analytics, Connectivity
Scroll down to read about some interesting developments involving Council members.GE tapped for historic solar storage project in AfricaThe government of Equatorial Guinea selected Council Global Partner GE to provide the energy storage system for a...
Article - 06/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners and Advisors....Bechtel lauded by DOE for safety work at Hanford: Council Global Partner Bechtel has once again earned the highest recognition for excellence in safety from the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity
Competition is a good thing. It pushes people (and cities!) to be their best. In that sense, it is terrific to see Dubai's commitment to become the smartest city in the world. Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid clearly understands that smartness...
Article - 03/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control