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While the we have certainly made progress to improve air quality, worldwide, it remains a problem. Globally, 4 million people die each year because of poor air quality. Some 90% of the world’s population lives in areas where the air pollution...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
At a gathering of local government innovation leaders in Victoria today Australia’s peak smart cities body released a guideline to help drive greater citizen-led innovation.Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) Executive Director Adam...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Citizen engagement
The 1st SmartCitiesCouncil® - Europe Stakeholders’ Assembly recently took place in Dublin, Ireland on the 9th of November. The day’s theme was Accelerating your innovation economy and focused on how smart city solutions can advance innovation and...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Continental collaborates on autonomous vehicle R&D in Singapore Council Global Lead Partner Continental will collaborate with Singapore-based AV...
Article - 11/16/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Security and privacy
Open data, data that is made public, is valuable for cities internally because it enables different departments to share information conveniently and quickly among themselves. And it also can be a valuable resource for the community. New York City...
Article - 09/28/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management
We were in Louisville, KY, this week — one of the winners of our 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. In nearly every city we go, public safety is one of the key focus areas. It makes sense. Safety is one of the key services that cities...
Article - 09/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Food rescue and recovery programs aren't new. We've reported on their strategies and technologies they use before. The benefits to keeping food that restaurants, stores and others can't use out of landfills are numerous: feeding the hungry, reducing...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Wellness, Economic development, Citizen engagement
Pick 10 Americans at random and you’ll find that at least one of them doesn’t use the internet. The latest research from the Pew Research Center finds 11% of Americans don’t go online. There are some common traits among them. They tend to be older,...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
After a rough decade with its Russian neighbors, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev is looking to rebrand itself as an Eastern European center of science, industry, education, and culture. The city of 3 million has developed a hub whose main goal is to...
Article - 08/08/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement
We’re often asked, “What is the smartest city?” It’s an impossible question to answer, although our Readiness Challenge winners are a good place to start. The reason it’s such an impossible question is that people rarely agree on the criteria. Are...
Article - 07/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Photo credit: New York CityDesigned to keep citizens informed on the variety of construction, repair or maintenance projects occurring around them, project tracking programs aren't a brand new idea. But more and more cities are adopting them as a...
Article - 07/10/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
A report from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reveals how a variety of applications can significantly improve urban quality of life indicators, from reduced fatalities to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Smart Cities: Digital Solutions...
Article - 06/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Dirty air has consequences — very serious consequences ranging from climate change to lung disease. In villages in India, clean-burning stoves are one key solution. The problem has been getting people to use them.Below, read about an innovative...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): India, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Food loss and waste has been an issue for years. Canada's Zero Waste Council estimates more than a third of the food it produces goes to waste, and the numbers are similar in the U.S. and elsewhere. To put it in dollar terms, the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/31/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Food and Water, Citizen engagement
The trajectory for urbanisation is set, as we all know. The rapid growth rates of our cities and projections about their future are underpinned by people’s desire to live in urban areas, among other, more existential factors.In understanding the...
Article - 05/30/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement
While New Zealand may be considered a small country, its smart cities ambitions are anything but small. For two consecutive years New Zealand (and Singapore) swept up more recognitions for their smart cities initiatives than any others in the annual...
Article - 05/30/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement
The capital and largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo is home to 275,000 residents, and like most cities looking to become smarter, it faces one big constraint: finance. So how does a city dealing with technical debt and remnants of war...
Article - 04/01/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement
This week I had the pleasure of leading a Readiness Workshop in Fairfax County, Virginia — a smart cities leader and one of the finalists in our 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. As you’ll read below, the county already has so much to celebrate...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Fairfax County, Analytics, Citizen engagement
A technology doesn’t make a city smart. A smart city is an organization that functions seamlessly to improve the lives of its people, using data as its guide. It’s more of a mindset than a “solution.”So how do you get there? Claro Partners is one of...
Article - 03/01/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
One of our key messages to cities is that you can provide better service — and at lower cost — by going digital. In an age where citizens can order almost anything online and have it delivered in a couple of days — if not a couple of hours — the old...
Article - 02/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity