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If a city is planning to make a new infrastructure investment, odds are it will have something to do with transportation. As a category for investment, transportation is growing faster than any other, as you’ll read below in a new analysis from...
Article - 06/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Finance and procurement
As funds for infrastructure development are tight, tolls are becoming an increasingly common vehicle for raising the needed cash. By some estimates, three out of five states are actively planning or likely considering new tolls as a way to pay for...
Article - 06/01/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Finance and procurement
Cities everywhere are challenged by congestion, pollution, crime, aging infrastructure, falling budgets and many other issues. They need new strategies and new technologies to address those challenges.Certainly smart technologies are a solution. But...
Resources - 08/24/2015
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Category: Member Premium Resources, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Financing and procurement tools
A massive urban growth boom is occurring throughout the world, forcing city leaders to grapple with stretching their resources and finding others to help cover the costs of critical development priorities. In this video moderator Arvind Satyam,...
Resources - 08/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Finance and procurement
The city of Redmond, Washington implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for public-sector organizations to streamline operations and empower employees with meaningful data. Learn in this case study from Council Lead Partner Microsoft about the...
Resources - 04/18/2015
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Category: Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Examples and case studies
This valuable report from Council Lead Partner Bechtel and re:focus partners helps guide cities on how to leverage private investment in building more resilient and integrated infrastructure. It summarizes projects that create both public value and...
Resources - 03/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Finance and procurement
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) hosted a Google Hangout featuring a Q & A session with smart city experts and thought leaders with insight into India’s smart cities development plans. The event promotes the USTDA’s...
Resources - 03/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for a video on the launch of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) Global Sustainability Series, investigating the role of the private sector in engaging with the U.S. government, host governments and NGOs to help...
Resources - 10/30/2014
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Category: Built environment, Economic development, Finance and procurement
Budget and financial systems officials from the city of Atlanta discuss how they are using Oracle's solution for planning and budgeting to have more confidence in the numbers they are reporting to the mayor and city council. Oracle is a Council...
Resources - 06/13/2014
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Category: Finance and procurement
To help governments improve service delivery, Council Associate Partner Imex Systems Inc. is pioneering a public-private partnership model where governments can obtain multi-channel service delivery infrastructure at no cost or minimal capital and...
Resources - 03/26/2014
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Category: Finance and procurement, Financing and procurement tools
Q&A with Mike Carlson, General Manager, Software Solutions, GE's Digital Energy businessI first met Mike Carlson in the mid-2000s when he would often show up on smart grid panel discussions. As the Vice President and Chief Information...
Resources - 06/03/2013
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Category: Energy, Transportation, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
Reed Pangborn is AT&T's area vice president for government, education and medical. In that role, he is responsible for helping cities "mobilize" their applications. An active runner, hiker and skier, he is a happy resident of Phoenix, where it...
Resources - 05/04/2013
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Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement
Laurent Schmitt is a compact man with an air of old-world politesse. He has worked in several executive capacities in different parts of Alstom, the $26-billion French maker of power and transport equipment. He started with the company in...
Resources - 03/27/2013
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Category: Definitions and overviews, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership