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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
Energy costs for low-income renters and affordable housing owners are disproportionately high. While there are programs to help them, they often can't help enough to make a difference — or help all of the people who need assistance. As cities work...
Article - 01/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
In India, where there are cities struggling to provide even basic amenities to their tax-paying citizens, a village in Gujarat—Punsari—is equipped with modern amenities like CCTV cameras, WiFi and a renewable energy power station. However, a...
Article - 08/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
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
Earlier this year, we named the first five recipients of our Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants, a program we developed to help cities take that next step toward taking full advantage of smart technologies. This week, I had the pleasure...
Article - 04/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
What may be the best path forward for one city's smart city project may not work for another. Each city's needs and what citizens expect differ from city to city. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, we can learn quite a lot from what other...
Article - 08/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It was easy for Illinois to end up in its current situation. Ending up with one of the worst technology platforms of any state didn’t require any effort at all.But even if you’re 40 years behind the times, you shouldn’t give up. Illinois has decided...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Miskolc, Hungary, is a mid-size industrial city that has taken on a number of civic improvement projects, among them planning a public square as a focal point for the city and an expanded mass transit system.Deputy Mayor Péter Pfliegler and other...
Article - 04/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
St. Albert is an attractive community of about 61,500 residents adjacent to Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta. Well known as "The Botanical Arts City," a reflection of the things its citizens enjoy, St. Albert city leaders also want...
Article - 04/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
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
The infographic below is from our friends at Smart & Resilient Cities. It encapsulates a recent survey of urban leaders. As such, it offers a way to compare your own efforts to the averages. For instance, did you realize that 87% of all cities...
Article - 12/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
By Barbara ThorntonDoes more citizen engagement really lead to higher tax revenue for a city? The answer: it depends.In cities with a clear process that allows citizens to participate in shaping the budget allocations, local tax revenue collection...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
Passionate about cities, innovation and technology, Stephen Yarwood, Urban Futurist, Australia Public Policy, founder of City2050 shares his experience with Smart Cities Council India on developing Adelaide as an innovative world destination and the...
Article - 10/20/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It takes a fair amount of courage to be the first to do something, but cities and other government agencies that adopted a more pioneering attitude have made tremendous progress in reducing environmental impact and driving economic growth.Four such...
Article - 09/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
In making an investment in a new city initiative, it’s easy to focus on the financial aspects: how much it costs and how much it’s likely to save. A growing number of cities and even some technology companies are finding there’s something even more...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
What began as a class project could provide inspiration for cities that are looking to become smarter. Four college students in California studied the state’s cities to see how smart they are -- and what the smartest cities have in common. The...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
London and Bangkok are at the top of MasterCard’s latest Global Destinations Cities Index. Just like last year, the year before that and the year before that. In fact, they’ve always topped the list. But instead of stopping there, the annual ranking...
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
At a very basic level, any city project is really an investment: projects are designed to provide more in benefits than they cost to produce. That’s now how investors are starting to see city projects and they’re increasingly willing to fund them...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
As technology rapidly improves, the services that citizens need and expect from their cities also grows. But even cities that use technology to make incremental improvements may soon be left behind -– if they haven’t been already. A new report finds...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Speaking at a smart cities conference last year, an Israeli Energy and Water Ministry official declared that the primary goal for smart cities should be to accommodate the needs of all citizens rather than be a collection of smart technologies. In...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership