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Cities across Europe are focusing on becoming “smarter,” creating districts and homes with the latest smart technology. But one city, in particular, is looking to extend this concept to housing benefitting students. In the capital of southern France...
Article - 07/14/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Latest refresh of the landmark city handbook outlines steps to a successful digital transformation. Cities are urged to follow eight best practices developed by leading practitioners (Reston, Virginia) July 11, 2017 – The Smart Cities Council...
Article - 07/14/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Cities and military bases have a lot in common, so much so that bases can in many ways be considered small cities. So it seemed like a good fit for Council Global Lead Partner AT&T when it approached Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Connectivity, Security and privacy
Les villes d’Europe s’attachent à devenir plus en plus « intelligentes » en créant des quartiers et des habitations dotées de technologies de pointe. Une ville est tout particulièrement en train d’étendre ce concept aux logements pour étudiants....
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
We describe smart cities as those who use technology to become more livable, workable and sustainable. But what does it mean to become more livable? You’ll find some good ideas below from a project by Council Partner CIVIQ Smartscapes.CIVIQ asked...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement
At a certain point in history, citizens came to expect access to city services – police, fire city hall – by phone. We’re at a similar inflection point now, as citizens increasingly expect to access city services by web or smartphone.As a result,...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
At the moment, 300 train stations across France are equipped with Wi-Fi, but the country plans to ramp up this program extending the service to all 3,000 of its stations. With free unlimited Wi-Fi, citizens will be able to track trains on their...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Providing quality education to more than a million government schools has resulted in the government struggling to offer quality and holistic education to every child. Evidently, according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) 2014...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: The Enablers, Computing resources, Visioning and roadmapping tools
We told you late last year about the new Poverty and Technology Lab at Stanford University, where they also have a Center on Poverty and Inequality. As part of these initiatives, Stanford offers a course where students learn about the basics of...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Mobility has several connotations. But it’s exciting to see an innovative company best known for manufacturing automobiles taking a broad view of what the term can mean. You’d expect Toyota to focus on physical mobility – how people get from point A...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Shelter
In a ground-breaking innovation, IIT Kharagpur has developed a fog algorithm that aims to cut delays and cancellations of flights and trains, by clearing hazy visuals caused by rain, fog or smog, all in real time!Current vision systems are designed...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Information Center, Built environment, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Transportation, Data management
Image credit: TeslaGiven the critical role energy plays in just about everything that happens in a city, it is no surprise that city leaders often start their smart city journey by making smart energy a priority. And this is because the success of a...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
On the back of its seminal report Will the Australian property industry seize the upside of disruption?, our Council Global Lead Partner EY has released another informative piece on big data, which looks into the analytics maturity of the Australian...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Concerns about a mushrooming diabetes epidemic are widespread. The Hindustan Times suggests that once a disease of the affluent, diabetes is now “rampant” among India’s urban poor. A recent report by Aetna International indicates diabetes has...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Cities are known to be the economic engine rooms for many countries, including Australia. And talent is often seen as a City’s greatest asset. But to attract and retain that talent requires a mix of conditions that are necessary to ensure the...
Article - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
In coming months, Bengaluru will witness a massive public bicycle sharing (PBS) project proposed by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT). The project, with around 4,000 cycle and 350 docking points, is touted to be India’s largest cycle-...
Article - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Upward Mobility, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
You hear a variety of reasons why so many young people today are living on the streets, in a car, on someone’s couch or in youth shelters. And it can be a challenging population to help as the number of homeless youth continues to increase in many...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities, RG ANZ, RG Europe
Category: Shelter
Conducting a nationwide paperless examination is not an easy task. The Indian Railways (IR)—in a massive saving drive—has saved over 4 lakh trees and 319 crore paper sheets just by adopting online test by replacing bulky, multi-lingual question...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Use of technology to increase transparency and accountability and transfer maximum benefit to the consumer reflects a 360-degree approach of a ‘Government in Action’. A similar approach has been considered by the Government wherein Merit Order...
Article - 07/07/2017
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Council has added a new chapter to the Smart Cities Readiness Guide, the handbook for urban transformation. “Digital City Services” explains how cities worldwide are converting their paper, phone and face-to-face interactions to...
Article - 07/07/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools