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Herndon, VA-based Smart City Works is an infrastructure actuator and business accelerator focused on improving livability, operations and resilience in cities. Its fall cohort will for the first time include two slots for nonprofits focused on...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Upward Mobility
With a population of over 1.7 million in metropolitan Oslo, the city realized that to protect its citizens, it needs to focus its smart city efforts on one major issue: climate-friendly urban development. The 10-year-plan behind FutureBuilt is just...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Coir geotextile mats, shredded waste plastic, nano-coated hydrophilic fibres, industrial slag, fly ash, and marble slurry dust are some of the new materials finding a place in road construction. In Kerala, the Public Works Department is testing the...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): India
Participation of citizens and citizen action is a key tenet of democratic governance. Participation or citizen action develops ownerships, which is crucial for success of any government initiate. However, direct participation or action of citizens...
Article - 07/28/2017
Active Region(s): India
You don’t need to worry about security, your suppliers will take care of you, right? Maybe not. Just ask cities like San Francisco that bought traffic signals that could easily be controlled by hackers.Your city’s cybersecurity is ultimately your...
Article - 07/28/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Data management, Security and privacy
Your data is valuable. That’s why hackers want it. And they’re getting more successful at stealing it and vandalizing it.So what can you do? Understand there is no single magical solution. There are actually three elements of any effective...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Data management, Security and privacy
When you think of ransomware, you may think of news stories about how people’s personal photos have been scrambled by viruses and can only be recovered by paying a large fee. But as you’ll read below, cities are being hit with these costly viruses...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Data management, Security and privacy
It's not surprising that cybersecurity spending will increase dramatically as the transportation industry becomes more connected. Our cars are getting more intelligent and autonomous and railways and other forms of transportation are becoming more...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Citizen mobility is one of the key issues in a city like Pune. The city relies solely on buses for public transportation, but the average number of buses per lakh population is only 37! Additionally, buses in Pune have issues with availability (...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Examples and case studies
We frequently write about efforts to encourage more girls and minorities to pursue career paths in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM). Recent examples include UL's free program that promotes STEM learning in middle schools and the new...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
The Cities Performance Framework has been in development for the past six months, and presents itself as a potential catalyst for more considered and impactful investment in our cities and towns. Its scope as both a contextual and performance-based...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand this week hosted a roundtable on smart cities standards, in collaboration with the British Standards Institution. Attendees included Standards Australia, peak industry bodies such as the Internet of Things...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Our work at the Council on advocating for greater engagement and alignment between the digital, built and natural environments is about to be showcased in Western Australia. Through our member company Telstra, Tom Simpson Park is about to become a...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Two billion people in the world remain financially excluded, according to Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a financial inclusion think tank housed at the World Bank. They lack access to basic financial services such as savings accounts...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
A gathering of smart cities leaders in Sydney today saw the release of a guideline to help drive greater opportunities for smart cities investment, says the peak body representing the smart cities movement in Australia.Smart Cities Council Australia...
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Coimbatore with a decadal growth rate of around 20% is a rapidly growing city in the state of Tamil Nadu. Known as Manchester of India, the city is undertaking numerous initiatives towards improving basic services and quality of life of citizens....
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
I would guess one of the most daunting challenges city leaders and human services providers have on their plates today is how to help the homeless in their communities and at the same time protect public health and safety. In the case of homeless...
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Established around 700 A.D., Somerset insouthwest England boasts one of the oldest local governments in the world. But despite its age—or perhaps because of it—Somerset County Council has proved itself to be one major example of how the UK is...
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Indore, being the largest and the most populous city in Madhya Pradesh with a population of around 20 lakh (according to the 2011 census), the Indore Municipal Corporation considers sanitation and solid waste management as its topmost priority....
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Transportation, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Data management
If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...
Article - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water