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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
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
Involving citizens in public data collection and decision-making processes is helping cities across Europe narrow in on the projects and areas that really need shaping. Cities like Oradea in Romania have connected its public institutions to a single...
Article - 11/08/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management
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
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
The smart cities movement has been part of the arc of technological evolution. Now providing a framework for more liveable, workable and sustainable city making, the smart cities movement promotes these outcomes through the application of...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
We’ve said it before: data and the effective use of it is what makes a city a smart city. But that doesn’t mean that all of the data needs to be your data. Or that you even need to be the one to find the best and highest use for it.From inspiring...
Article - 04/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
Simone Brody worked in high level occupations in the public and private sectors before heading up the What Works Cities initiative which, among other things, is committed to help cities accelerate their data use to help people improve their lives....
Article - 09/30/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
As city leaders know, today's connected citizens expect much more from their government in terms of convenient, efficient and fast delivery of services than ever before, whether it's getting a building permit or reporting a pothole. It's something...
Article - 08/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Building public engagement is not an easy job, but one great way to do that is to give constituents better access to government. And Los Angeles found open data is a great avenue for doing that.SixThirty Group interviewed Los Angeles’ deputy chief...
Article - 08/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management
We've all been predicting that Open Data and other smart city technologies would lead to a new era of government transparency and accountability. But let's be honest -- many cities just give lip service to the concept. Others put up Open Data, but...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
Contributed by DowntownDC Business Improvement DistrictWhen Matt Bailey, Co-founder of Code for D.C., was before the Transition Committee on Open and Good Government and Full Democracy for the newly-elected mayor of the District of Columbia Muriel...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management
When the Smart Cities practice for Council Associate Partner IDC began tracking and forecasting what its researchers believed would be the biggest influences on the direction and depth of global smart city progress, the number one prediction on its...
Article - 01/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
When was the last time your city updated its emergency plan? The way we communicate has changed a lot even over the past few years, so if your city’s website and social media aren’t key parts an emergency plan, it may be time to update it.Like it or...
Article - 07/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Data management
About 70,000 body cameras are worn by police officers across the US -- a number that could soon double with a White House plan to expand their usage. But that may represent only the tip of the iceberg as a growing number of cities worldwide are...
Article - 06/30/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management, Security and privacy
Data lies at the heart of many city services and smart cities are collecting ever increasing amounts of it. While cities use the data to streamline operations and make people’s lives easier, more people are seeing the efforts as creepy.Experts say...
Article - 06/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Data management
Most agree smartphone apps can help people in a host of ways and even build stronger connections between citizens and their government. But they do require an investment.A new report from Council Lead Partner IBM can help give you an idea whether...
Article - 05/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Often people think of "the cloud" as a massive data repository somewhere online where email and documents are stored for easy access. But the cloud is much more than that, and government agencies around the world are finding the cloud can help them...
Article - 10/01/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Data collection is a fundamental piece of the smart cities equation. Smart traffic sensors provide data that help cities improve transportation flow. Sensors on trash bins alert crews that it's time for a pick-up. Smart water meters communicate data...
Article - 04/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management, Security and privacy
Promoters of “open data” in government have released the results of a project that ranks 36 U.S. cities based on the type and quality of their open data efforts.Govtech.com reports that the project -- dubbed the U.S. Open Data Census -- reviewed and...
Article - 03/26/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management, Interoperability