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Strategic partnerships are essential for smart city success. And as we've said many times before, local academic institutions make great partners. They can often help cities successfully overcome challenges they couldn't resolve on their own by...
Article - 10/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
The responsibility of being a smart city leader means facing a variety of challenges, developing visions, strategies and goals, making tough decisions and weighing trade-offs – all while keeping in mind that your overriding responsibility is to take...
Article - 10/03/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools, Policy frameworks and tools
By Jason ShuehDecember 19, 2016Illinois officials report progress on their Smart State initiative, an unprecedented project for state government that is designed to improve digital infrastructure and the quality of life for residents. A two-day...
Article - 02/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Published December 19, 2016 by Illinois Government Continues Rauner Administration’s transformation of state IT systems; Smart State Workshop provides valuable information and direction from key leadersCHICAGO, IL – The State of Illinois’...
Article - 02/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
The Council is excited to return to Washington, D.C., September 27-29 for the second-annual Smart Cities Week. Check out the program grid and make plans to attend.As we lead up to Smart Cities Week, I’ve asked our host city to share the work it’s...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
Standards aren’t just technical specifications to get one system to talk to another. They can also be a valuable tool to make sure your smart cities initiatives are on the right track — and to demonstrate that you’re a good steward of your taxpayers...
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
By now (I hope!) we don’t have to repeat the benefits and importance of smart city standards. But there are two roadblocks to success. First, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), many cities are not using them....
Article - 07/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
If you're a city leader committed to a smart city transformation, you know the challenges well: It's a disruptive process to dismantle “traditional” processes and build in their place a livable, economically vibrant and sustainable city. So why...
Article - 02/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Economic development, Policy frameworks and tools
A growing number of cities eager to ensure a safe and sustainable place for its citizens to live and work are increasingly turning to the technologies and concepts of smart cities to ensure a healthy economy, and environmentally responsible and...
Article - 02/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Policy frameworks and tools
Most cities and utilities want to get smarter. They see the smart cities movement as delivering more than some incremental improvement. They see it as a meaningful transformation — one that delivers far more than just some cost savings.Despite all...
Article - 02/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Denmark may not be top of mind in the smart cities realm. But with the right combination of cooperation, collaboration and communication the country could become a leader and a model for other cities in how they can live up to the promise of more...
Article - 02/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Examples, Policy frameworks and tools
In 2015, the Smart Cities Council emphasized "interoperability" as one of the key things cities should demand from their vendors. As we enter 2016, the interoperability theme is beginning to resonate worldwide. For instance, I recently mentioned the...
Article - 01/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Interoperability, Policy frameworks and tools
Smart cities are designed to be safe places to live, and many things contribute to public safety, from improved street lighting to enhanced police and fire protection, and much more. Unfortunately, the connectivity and intelligent technologies that...
Article - 11/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Security and privacy, Policy frameworks and tools
China’s stated intent to be the world’s smart city technology leader in five years is certainly ambitious. It also seems to be a matter of necessity for the country.As readers know, people are moving from rural and other outlying areas into the...
Article - 11/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Dr. Nitin Kareer (extreme left) and Smart Cities industry representatives including the founder & director of Smart Cities Council India Pratap Padode (middle row - third from left) at the Mantralaya office. The Smart Cities Council India...
Article - 10/28/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Pushkar in the Ajmer district in Western India.The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) selected Emerging Markets Infrastructure, working in cooperation with the Smart Cities Council, Smart Cities Council India, 3 E Consulting, Cimperium and...
Article - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Fresh water is a given for Milwaukee and other Great Lakes communities. While there's plenty of fresh water, Milwaukee has spent a lot of time and money to ensure that doesn't change -- and to aggressively expand its already growing water-based...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Water and wastewater, Policy frameworks and tools
Milan is counting on the sharing economy to help it accommodate the more than 20 million visitors expected descend on the Italian city for Expo2105, its upcoming world’s fair. In December, Milan in fact passed a law that encourages car sharing, bike...
Article - 03/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Policy frameworks and tools
Becoming a smart city is about more than deploying systems that use sensors, meters and advanced data analytics. It’s also about creating systems that improve the dynamics inside city hall.That, at least, is partly the premise behind a new business...
Article - 01/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 16th of 17 themes defined in the standard: wastewater collection and treatment. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (...
Article - 11/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Water and wastewater, Policy frameworks and tools