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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
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
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
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg spent the past 12 years as Mayor of New York. He is famously convinced that he knows what's best for everyone else. Not just what's best in civic government, but what's best in health, personal habits, and much more.And...
Article - 10/02/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
I come from the smart grid industry, where utilities have been using Twitter for years to communicate with customers during outages. To date, however, each utility has had to sign up customers one-by-one for the notification service. Now Twitter has...
Article - 10/02/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Connectivity
There's a widespread notion that existing cities are at a disadvantage. They will never be able to retrofit their aging infrastructure to be truly smart, goes the meme. It will be too expensive.Here's an article that implies a different conclusion....
Article - 10/02/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Code for America is a Peace Corps-style non-profit that encourages coders and designers to take a year off to develop applications for government. The young-but-already-successful organization has a variety of initiatives in the works. But for the...
Article - 10/02/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources
In this video, Jesse Berst, Chairman of the Smart Cities Council, interviews Microsoft's Laura Ipsen, VP of World Wide Public Sector, about smart cities and about Microsoft's far-reaching CityNext initiative.
Resources - 10/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Computing resources