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We are delighted to present the Data Leadership Vitals - Purpose, Privacy, Security, Ethics and Governance.The Smart Cities Council launched the Centre for Data Leadership in January 2020 after more than three years of listening and learning...
Article - 05/23/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Data management
Calgary, Alberta already has a track record for innovation, thanks to its commitment to a long-term vision for a communication infrastructure that connects as many assets as possible to improve city services. And that commitment is yielding...
Article - 12/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
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
France is looking to become a “global champion of digital technology” by honing in on one aspect of its tech scene: artificial intelligence. Some of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies are setting their sights on the capital city of Paris as...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Smart city projects and solutions can breathe new life into a struggling city, one neighbourhood at a time. But what if urban services that compile data are the key not only to modernizing a city but also to funding it? With the redevelopment of...
Article - 11/19/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Connectivity, Data management
The Dallas Smart City Living Lab is a very good example of how a city can initiate several integrated projects in a small slice of an urban environment. It's also a very good example of why collaboration and citizen engagement are key elements that...
Article - 11/09/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Data management
When improving citizens’ quality of life, the challenge of providing suitable and sufficient parking ranks consistently at the top of issues to solve for today’s cities. This problem is also constantly expensive for citizens: drivers spend...
Article - 11/07/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Data management
Located in south-central Belgium at the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre rivers, Namur reigns as the capital city of the Wallonia region. Home to a population of around 110,000 people, the city may be small in size, but historically it’s one of...
Article - 11/07/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Data management
Governments, private businesses and cities are all latching on to the open data trend as the benefits (and value) of shared data become increasingly clear. Open data programs and policies can do a lot to help cities become more efficient, more...
Article - 10/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Data management
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
Ten medium-sized European cities—including Bruges, Delft and Mechelen—have partnered up with Cambridge Cleantech to develop solutions for urban environment challenges revolving around one main concept: open data. The multi-million-euro project will...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Data management
Located in northwestern Romania, Cluj-Napoca is considered the unofficial capital of the Transylvania region. The country’s fourth-most populous city is the economic hub of the region, home to a half-million inhabitants in the metropolitan area, as...
Article - 08/14/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Data management
In 2016, global technology analyst Gartner pessimistically predicted that 60% of the world’s data initiatives would fail. By the end of last year, this number had been revised up to 85%.While it’s important to fail fast, no one wants to fail often....
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
When you consider the assets that any council builds, owns and manages, it’s easy to focus on the bricks and mortar, the parks, gardens, roads and fleet. But there is an invisible asset that is arguably more valuable than those physical assets: data...
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
Is the planning profession ready for the future? This question was asked at the New Zealand Planning Institute’s event in Wellington on 21 June where panel speakers engaged with members and the institute’s board about future technology and urban...
Article - 07/04/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Analytics, Data management
The announcement this week that Kansas City is expanding its Smart City program didn't come as much of a surprise. The program, which kicked off two years ago in conjunction with its KC Streetcar project, was initiated in relatively small but...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
It sounds like a smart cities project: set up areas to serve as living labs so smart technologies and applications can be tested as solutions for local problems. There is no dominant city in the area, so San Mateo County and its partners are using a...
Article - 05/24/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
Behind the scenes of the smart city, often hidden away out of plain sight, is the backbone infrastructure that keeps it all together – the data centre. At the Council, we refer to the core functions of the smart city as being collect, communicate...
Article - 04/18/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Johnson Controls acquires TriatekCouncil Lead Partner Johnson Controls has acquired the assets of Triatek, a company that provides airflow solutions for buildings....
Article - 04/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Data management, Instrumentation and control
Have you deleted your Facebook account? Half a million people threatened to in the wake of a privacy scandal. While Facebook claims few did, the incident has people talking about privacy — something most used to take for granted. So what are cities...
Article - 04/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Data management