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Riders who hop a bus in many Utah cities will discover using the Utah Transit Authority's new FAREPAY card is up to 20% cheaper than dropping coins in the fare box – for a few months, anyway. The discounts-- intended to encourage cash-paying riders...
Article - 10/31/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Transportation, Connectivity
PayByPhone is a mobile application providing an innovative payment solution for city parking and transport services. And it offers a lot more than just payment, with value-added services that enhance livability for citizens and visitors while saving...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Transportation, Connectivity
Catch up on the latest research on smart buildings, smart transportation, smart cities and what may be your city's biggest obstacle to a better urban future. Scroll down for summaries and links to five new research reports you won't want to miss....
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Computing resources
When emergencies hit, San Francisco plans to be ready with information citizens need to respond appropriately. As a report on the Emergency Management website explains, Crisis Mode is an online crisis map developed by Google's charitable arm, Google...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
News from Smart Cities Council members...Opower signs major deal in Japan. Opower is a Council Associate Partner and the global leader in customer engagement solutions for the utility industry. It has just signed a business partnership with Tokyo...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Data management, Policy and leadership
A tool that gives police and/or other first responders who are in different locations the ability to see and contribute to a common geospatial view of a major event is being tested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).As explained on the...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Frost & Sullivan is a leading research and consulting firm and Brian Cotton leads their Information and Communications Technology Consulting (ICT) practice. Since ICT is the core of a smart city, I'm pleased that we can share this guest post...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Data management, Finance and procurement, Instrumentation and control
The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that pushes for greater government openness and transparency, says the city of Louisville, Kentucky is the first in the U.S. to declare open data the "default" for the formatting, storage and availability of its...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Data management, Policy and leadership
Q&A with Walker Kimball, President of InfrastructureWalker Kimball has always wanted to build things ‒ and today he helps to build some of the largest infrastructure projects in the world. San Francisco-based Bechtel is a world leader in...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
Cities in Mississippi are competing to be part of an aggressive deployment of 1 gigabyte-per-second, ultra high-speed Internet access across the state. The Fiber to the Home initiative by Ridgeland, Mississippi-based telecommunications company C...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
We see several encouraging trends in the new Smart City Tracker 3Q13 report from Navigant Research that confirms momentum around smart city programs continues to grow. Among them:A growing movement to define standards and frameworks that enable...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership, Research, publications and web sites
Public libraries have been moving into the digital age for years now, but a story out of the Twin Cities puts it into perspective, revealing a lengthy list of ways public libraries are staying relevant in an online era. No surprise to find public...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner National Grid has opened the doors of New England's first-of-its-kind Sustainability Hub at 912 Main Street in Worcester, Mass. The hub offers hands-on education about energy efficiency and emerging energy technologies for...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
Just last week we told you about how Council Lead Partner Microsoft is making the cloud better for government. Now two more developments suggest cities not yet on the cloud bandwagon may want to hop on soon. The first is an announcement from IT firm...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
It seems a rather daunting task to pick the 100 top city innovators around the world, but the folks at UMB's Future Cities have done just that – saluting those they say are doing the most important and aggressive work. And we're not surprised to see...
Article - 10/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Everywhere you go, you read advice telling cities to use social media (we say it here at Smart Cities Council all the time). But using social media is one thing. Getting citizens to read it is another. The Governing.com post summarized below has...
Article - 10/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
Here's an excellent article from Governing Magazine via a reprint in Government Technology. It chronicles the revolution that is occurring all over the United States now that technology has made citizen engagement "frictionless." You'll want to read...
Article - 10/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Unless you're an ICT type, you'll have a hard time slogging through the techspeak that crowds the Microsoft press release shown below. But parse the tech terms and you'll find some important advances for government users.For one thing, Microsoft has...
Article - 10/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management
Yes, the UK wants to bring smart city benefits to its urban residents. But it also expects the sector to be its next big export opportunity. According to one report, the UK could gain a full 10% of the market by 2020, to the tune of $40 billion per...
Article - 10/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Policy and leadership
Top U.S. Cities Beta-Test Smart Cities Council Readiness Guide Mayors and smart city teams provide feedback on the Readiness Guide to bring cities into the 21st Century WASHINGTON, D.C. – (October 8, 2013) – Leaders from top cities across the United...
Article - 10/15/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Policy and leadership