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Digital City Services is the newest chapter of the Smart Cities Readiness Guide, the free, vendor-neutral handbook for urban transformation. As we put it together, we came to understand that digital services are the hallmark of a smart city. Yes,...
Article - 06/29/2017
Active Region(s): North America
At the Council, we define a smart city as one that uses information and communications technology to make itself more livable, workable and sustainable. But what does that look like? You will soon find a model at the Cary, NC, headquarters of SAS....
Article - 06/29/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Analytics
Olli, IBM's self-driving shuttleThe consensus is that we'll see autonomous vehicles (AVs) – self-driving cars, trucks, buses and shuttles – on our city streets and interstates within five years or so. Several jurisdictions are actively competing to...
Article - 06/29/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity
What's so compelling about what Louisville has done to raise awareness about redlining – the discriminatory lending practices that emerged in the 1930s – is the way it has connected the dots to show its lasting impact on the city and its citizens to...
Article - 06/28/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
I learned a long time ago that when Dubai takes action, especially where smart technologies are concerned, it's going to be interesting. Consider the robotic police officer it introduced earlier this year – or its data-driven effort to become the...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
Mississippi’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.9% in May, the state's lowest level since the U.S. Department of Labor began publishing state unemployment rates in January 1976. Some will tell you Mississippi's pioneering efforts in...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Some interesting findings in Deloitte's latest volunteerism survey – particularly what it reveals about millennials in the workplace. As the largest portion of the workforce in the U.S. today, it's important to understand what it will take to...
Article - 06/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities
As crucial as water is to the health and welfare of their citizens, water utilities and their distribution networks are often overlooked. We expect it to be there and it always has been, so why worry about it? But about half of the world's...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
If you haven’t already given some thought into making your streetlights smarter, now is a good time to start. Smart streetlights are a great first smart cities project because they provide tangible benefits, they’re relatively easy to deploy and...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The very essence of how we get around cities is changing fast. Concepts like self-driving cars — or driving but not actually owning a car — might have seemed ridiculous a few years ago, but they are becoming serious factors that are shaping how we...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
When you get out of prison with no place to live and no job, it’s got to seem pretty bleak. Yet for many, that’s the reality. Data suggests the number of people leaving Australian prisons with nowhere to go has increased 54% in the last three years...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Families struggling to make rent and pay utility bills often find there isn't a lot left in the budget to make healthy food choices. A box of mac and cheese, after all, is much cheaper than a piece of fish and some fresh vegetables – if the latter...
Article - 06/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Wellness
Originally launched in 2014 by Cisco Canada and now led by TakingITGlobal (TIG), the Connected North program uses Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to link students in remote Indigenous communities to a range of virtual education and youth mental...
Article - 06/20/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Analytics leader SAS is used extensively by local, state and federal governments agencies to tackle some of society's toughest challenges – opioid addiction, child abuse and neglect and human trafficking among them. Now it's pulled advice and...
Article - 06/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Wellness
As you’re developing your smart cities plans, it’s sometimes helpful to see what other cities — perhaps your neighbors — are doing. Each month, Onvia gives us an inside look at what cities are doing through the largest contracts they award and the...
Article - 06/15/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Finance and procurement
There’s no question that the app-based, private vehicle taxi services Lyft and Uber have dramatically changed the way people get around cities. It’s been hard to quantify their impact, but San Francisco has made an incredible effort. San Francisco...
Article - 06/15/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Analytics
Louisville's known as the home of the Kentucky Derby. But it's also known for its traffic congestion, a distinction no city wants. Louisville Metro Government officials are taking what looks like a common sense, no frills approach to approach to...
Article - 06/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Connectivity
It's difficult to understand how, in 2017, the digital divide still exists. And it doesn't just exist in developing countries – one report suggests 14% of people in Europe have never used the Internet. And 2015 U.S. Census data found about one-fifth...
Article - 06/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
The headline on a recent editorial in the Seattle Times says it all: "Focus on data, not good intentions, to combat homelessness." As it has for the past five years, Seattle's point-in-time count of the homeless climbed this year. Given that "by...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness, Shelter
A survey conducted last year by nonprofits G3ict and World Enabled with 250 experts worldwide found that about 60% of global respondents believe smart cities are failing people with disabilities. So when tech heavyweights like Microsoft and AT&T...
Article - 06/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness