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As cities develop and populations continue to grow, there is one common challenge most places face: transportation. In southwest Germany near the French border, Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has had a three-...
Article - 12/10/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness, Shelter, Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Payments, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation
Smart cities are made up of smart people. You need them to build a vibrant community. You need them to build the well-educated labor force that today’s businesses covet.City leaders play a substantial role. A city’s policies and quality of life...
Article - 12/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services
We've stressed several times what a tremendous asset an experienced partner can be in a city's efforts to become a successful, resilient smart city. The announcement this week from Council Lead Partner Cisco that it will provide a manufacturing hub...
Article - 10/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
One of the essentials to having a vibrant city is having a vibrant job market. Today, that requires a workforce that truly embraces technology, not just uses it. And cities not only rely on that coveted workforce, they play a role in developing it....
Article - 06/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services
The story below begs at least two questions. The first is: "How do you get the private sector to invest in your local economy?" In my view, it starts with regional collaboration, so your aggregated demand is big enough to be meaningful to the...
Article - 03/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Connectivity
Thomson Reuters is exploring strategic options for its Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business, which had revenue of about $ 1 billion in 2014. The business, which has 3,200 employees, provides intellectual property and scientific...
Article - 11/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation
More than 170,000 refugees are crammed into a tiny camp in Kenya, a camp that’s so full, new arrivals wanting to stay there have been turned away for more than a year. Hunger and malnutrition are the norm. Children are separated from families....
Article - 09/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Economic development, Health and human services, Payments
For nearly 25 years, Somalia’s economy has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world. A civil war caused its financial system to collapse and concerns about fraud have stood in the way of rebuilding it. But Council Lead Partner MasterCard is...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Payments, Computing resources, Security and privacy
Every year since 1999, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) think-tank announces which world city it deems most intelligent after a year-long evaluation that includes a quantitative analysis of extensive data, site inspections by the Intelligent...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
Code for America (CfA) revealed its latest lineup of apps from eight cities working with CfA technologists in this year's fellowship program.CfA partners with 8-10 local governments each year to develop innovative digital approaches to delivering...
Article - 06/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Finance and procurement
Cities worldwide share a daunting challenge: where to find the talent to manage the technologies that make smart cities possible.Johannesburg – South Africa's largest city -- recently unveiled its approach, a program referred to as COJEDI to educate...
Article - 05/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took the wraps off the city’s new multi-faceted sustainability plan, it was clear that he wasn’t going to be timid about dealing with the city’s increasing temperatures and growing population density.The new 20-...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Microsoft makes $3 million YouthSpark investment in Vietnam's digital futureThe investment is part of Council Lead Partner Microsoft's global YouthSpark commitment to empower young people with...
Article - 04/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Connectivity, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Good reads department: IBM on Johannesburg as "a model of urban renewal" Writing for Forbes, IBM Chief Storyteller Steve Hamm puts the spotlight on Johannesburg, South Africa – in particular what he...
Article - 04/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Interoperability
By Pratap Padode Smart Cities Council IndiaThe 2015-2016 Union Budget stayed away from using the term smart cities, unlike the one in 2014-2015 which made a special mention, but that doesn’t imply that the Indian government has lost interest in...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
Of all the unemployed people in Africa, if you were to choose one at random, odds are that person would be under the age of 25. And even having a college degree doesn’t change those odds much.For young adults in Africa, the problem is that few...
Article - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 smart city standard with a look at the 15th of 17 themes defined in the standard -- urban planning indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy frameworks and tools
A book released this fall by education advocate Tom Vander Ark spells out why learning is essential to the health of cities. Smart Cities That Work for Everyone: 7 Keys to Education & Employment discusses the importance learning has on the...
Article - 11/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services
Tanzania has one of the highest rates of heart-related infant mortality in the world, but the country could dramatically reduce the number of deaths, even if it can’t get more medical specialists to work there.Council Lead Partner Cisco says the...
Article - 11/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Connectivity
When it comes to ranking the world's top global cities, there has been little change. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong top the Global Cities Index from A.T. Kearney – the same spots those cities held last time, and two times before that....
Article - 09/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Connectivity