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Currently, 93 per cent of sewage finds its way to ponds, lakes, and rivers without treatment. Untreated sewage is the leading polluter of water sources in India, causing a host of diseases, agricultural contamination, and environmental degradation....
Article - 04/30/2018
Active Region(s): India
Does your Grandma know what a Smart City is?If not, then we are doing it wrong! We are building Smart Cities for the people after all, so shouldn’t they be familiar with the concept? Shouldn’t Smart Citizens know they are a part of a Smart eco-...
Article - 04/29/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Citizen engagement strategies and tools
Even as free joyrides are being extended to Nagpurites on the 5-kilometre stretch from the Airport South to Khapri on the Nagpur metro rail before its formal inauguration, the federal government has plans to extend the service to the city’s...
Article - 04/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
We know that we have a serious garbage problem. A Singapore-based company owned by a royal prince has offered to process Jalandhar’s waste into mineral water and electricity. Dr Max Langenburg, the company’s founder, may soon arrive in the city to...
Article - 04/27/2018
Active Region(s): India
The city of San Jose, California and Council Global Lead Partner AT&T are working toward a project to improve citywide wireless communications, upgrade the existing communications network for first responders and provide a springboard for next-...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
When it comes to smart cities projects, there’s what people are saying and what people are doing. Our monthly Inside Look series tracks the latter by examining what cities are planning, soliciting and buying. Below, you’ll learn about some of the...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
Accelerating smart city efforts with mentoring and benefits from leading experts and organisationsCommencing in 2018, the Smart Cities Council ANZ will be facilitating it's Smart Cities Readiness Challenge, a program whereby the Council invites free...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
A word of thanks to the Economic Roundtable (based in LA) for their work on developing data driven tools to reduce homelessness. Last year it was the Silicon Valley Triage Tool, this year an extensive report providing insights into how to...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services
Data infrastructure can be daunting. There are many different technologies available, but nothing had been foolproof. But now, researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)-Madras and Bombay along with Harvard University are using Big Data...
Article - 04/26/2018
Active Region(s): India
Can the traffic problem in Mumbai ever be solved? Maharashtra Chief Minister might have finally found a solution to Mumbai’s ever-growing problem. “The highways need to be smart to prevent accidents and maintain better management of traffic”, said...
Article - 04/25/2018
Active Region(s): India
Years of severe drought have created a water crisis in the Mahbubnagar region in Telangana, a state in southern India where half the population of 35 million depends on agriculture to earn a living. The water table had virtually depleted and the...
Article - 04/24/2018
Active Region(s): India
Since the launch of the Smart Cities Mission, Rs 99.39 billion has been released by the Government of India. Against this, 753 projects worth Rs 245.11 billion have been completed or started work on-ground. Further, about 287 projects worth Rs 142....
Article - 04/24/2018
Active Region(s): India
Researchers from the George Institute for Global Health has developed an innovative smartphone app-- Smart Health--that could enable community health workers track the growing burden of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, especially in...
Article - 04/20/2018
Active Region(s): India
You would not think that something like an electric scooter would prompt the need for urgent regulation, but that’s the situation in some cities. Following the dockless bicycle rentals that have sprung up in some cities, electric scooters are now...
Article - 04/20/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation
It's frustrating when you want to use a city service only to find it's out of order. It may be out of the city's control, but it still reflects poorly on the service. But there are smart city technologies that can help cities improve the services...
Article - 04/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity
Electric vehicles are an area where we’ve seen exponential growth. There are now more than 2 million EVs on the road worldwide. That’s close to double the number the year before and 20 times the number five years earlier.We typically talk about the...
Article - 04/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy
With the advancement of technology that we have seen in recent times, we are knocking on the door of entry into a new world where everything is “smart”. Smart road means where commuters do not have any difficulty in travelling. India must take a...
Article - 04/19/2018
Active Region(s): India
In eastern France, Dijon is advancing its aspirations to being a smart city, but in collaboration with its neighbours. The French city is joining forces with surrounding towns to embark on a €105 million information technology project that will...
Article - 04/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation
Behind the scenes of the smart city, often hidden away out of plain sight, is the backbone infrastructure that keeps it all together – the data centre. At the Council, we refer to the core functions of the smart city as being collect, communicate...
Article - 04/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
In just over a week's time, we launch the Smart Cities Readiness Challenge in Australia and New Zealand, marking the first major expansion of the program outside North America.The Readiness Challenge is a global program of the Smart Cities Council,...
Article - 04/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand