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Begin Rating ProcessVote for the cities you would like to see lead Readiness Cohorts. See more information about each city's projects below.Smart Cities Council Readiness ChallengeOur goal is to invite cities to provide information about their...
Article - 11/18/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
The development of smart cities in India has been given a boost after the decision of the national government’s Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) in making the oneM2M specifications as national standard. It will enable greater collaboration...
Article - 11/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
Telangana received an early Diwali gift over the weekend as they received the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ever witnessed in the State’s history. This move was made by Amazon Web Services Inc (AWS), an Amazon.com company, which decided to...
Article - 11/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
Amidst the large scale disruptions that the fatal COVID-19 virus has brought into play, Seoul has managed to rise to the occasion to establish itself as Asia’s real estate leader in such unprecedented times. The capital city of South Korea’s...
Article - 11/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
Ramky Enviro Engineers and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) announced the launch of a new construction and demolition (C&D) waste recycling plant in Jeedimetla, Hyderabad. The Jeedimetla plant is another step in the company’s...
Article - 11/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
India is likely to spend $500 billion (approx Rs 37 lakh crore) per year on infrastructure projects to accommodate India’s rapidly growing population by 2030, according to a report titled ‘A Blueprint for Modern Infrastructure Delivery’ by...
Article - 11/11/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Aurangabad Cantonment Board is set to get CCTV cameras installed under the ambitious smart city project to maintain checks on the areas and keep a close eye on the movement of unwanted elements.The installation work is set to begin in the soon...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the investment of Rs 1,810.56 crore for 210 MW Luhri Stage-I Hydro Electric Project located on river Satluj in Shimla and Kullu districts of the Himalayan...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The road project has been divided into a total of ten packages, and bidders have been separated into three sets, one for Karnataka, one for Andhra Pradesh and the final one for Tamil Nadu.NHAI has called for bidders to contend for the Hoskote to...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
POWERCHINA Huadong Engineering Corporation (HDEC) is using BIM to provide the foundation of a co-called Digital Twin that the company says will transform the ancient Chinese city of Shaoxing.The company is responsible for the digital engineering of...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
A new initiative called “Nurturing Neighbouring Challenge”, launched recently aims to generate data banks in smart cities to improve city planning. The initiative will ensure the development of public places in smart cities, along with the...
Article - 11/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
This article is provided thanks to SCCANZ partner FrontierSI and first appeared at frontiersi.com.auThe ChallengeA robust city modelling framework is essential if local, state and national governments and communities are to work together across...
Article - 11/05/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Image above: Yellowbox team with the Mayor of Randwick City Council at Coogee BeachOver the past year, Randwick City Council has used smart-city technology to digitise the city and introduce emerging technology to public spaces. By...
Article - 11/04/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam has floated tender for construction of sewage treatment plants in Rae Bareilly of Uttar Pradesh. The scope of work involves design, build, finance, operate and transfer sewage treatment plants of capacities as set out...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Madurai Corporation has obtained clearance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the funding agency for the ‘package-4’ of the mega drinking water project proposed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,295 crore to get additional 125 MLD of drinking water...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Institute (TERI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for management of water and wastewater. The MoU was signed by DP Mathuria, Executive Director – Technical, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Ministry of Jal Shakti and Sanjay Seth,...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairs, has urged that all our organisations should undertake efforts to identify more and more activities to be automated and free of human interface. “The power of technology is...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs, Nitin Gadkari virtually laid the foundation stones of nine National Highway projects with a total length of nearly 262 km worth over Rs 27.52 billion in Tripura on October 27, 2020. The event...
Article - 10/30/2020
Active Region(s): India
Fulfilling its commitment to usher new era of infrastructure development in rural areas across district under smart village campaign phase-II, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu kick-started 3,201 development projects worth Rs 149....
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Madurai Corporation has been saving big on electricity every month, thanks to the conversion of street lights in 72 of the 100 wards in the city under the smart city scheme. Corporation officials say that not less than Rs 22 lakh is being saved...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Central Government is drafting guidelines to scale up cycling infrastructure in the country, including interventions such as segregated lanes, shared streets, and intersections. The guidelines were shared with cities as the part of the Smart...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Centre has provided an assistance of Rs 885.58 crore to Odisha under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme during 2015-2020. Of the 191 projects sanctioned under the scheme, 152 have so far been completed...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation (NMSCDCL) has invited suggestions and objections about the draft of the proposed Greenfiled township project. The township is to be developed on 753 acre in Makhmalabad areas of the city. The...
Article - 10/23/2020
Active Region(s): India
Smart Cities Council Partners have the unique opportunity to engage with multiple cities at the same time working together using the Council's Smart Cities Activator Platform. Here is an example of how the process works. You can download the PDF and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As per a new study from Technavio, the smart city market size is poised to grow by more than $2118 billion during 2020-2024 with the decreasing price of connected devices expected to fuel market growth.The report from global technology research and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
Bharatpur is likely to become a Smart City in the coming years as the plan to include the city in the Narendra Modi government’s Smart City Mission has intensified. Recently, the Urban Development Department has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
The current COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented impacts on individuals and society as a whole. What was initially considered a China-specific outbreak spread quickly throughout the world, hospitalizing many and killing thousands. Until recently...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
While the initial caseload of Covid19 in India was confined to metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai, it is now the Tier 2 and 3 cities that are contributing the most to new COVID-19 cases in the country. The increasing caseload has also led to...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
Nokia announced an automated, zero-touch elevated temperature detection solution designed to help spot potential COVID-19 infections in facilities with thousands of people. The Nokia Automated Analytics Solution for Access Control streamlines and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Mangaluru Smart City (MSCL) has recently begun the implementation of its QR code-based Solid Waste Management System (SWMS), which is set to cover all the 60 wards of Mangaluru, in a phased manner.The first-of-its kind system will increase the...
Article - 10/09/2020
Active Region(s): India
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh rolled out a “smart ration card” scheme for providing subsidized foodgrains to 1.41 crore beneficiaries in the State. He also announced a separate state-funded scheme to provide subsidized rations to nine lakh...
Article - 10/09/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Noida International Airport and Zurich Airport International AG on October 7, 2020, signed a concession agreement that would allow the Switzerland headquartered company to build and operate the Noida International Airport at Jewar for 40 years....
Article - 10/09/2020
Active Region(s): India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the world’s longest railway tunnel above 10,000 feet height on October 3. The Atal Tunnel was completed at the most difficult time of coronavirus pandemic. This project is currently the best example of...
Article - 10/09/2020
Active Region(s): India
The International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has set up the Smart City Research Center (SCRC) with support from the Indian Government’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY), Smart City Mission and...
Article - 10/09/2020
Active Region(s): India
What is post COVID Urbanism, and why do we need to discuss it?Well, everything about 'place' is changing, and the COVID pandemic has highlighted this.On Tuesday 6th October the Smart Cities Council hosted a discovery session with an online audience...
Article - 10/07/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
In response to the urgent need for plastic waste management, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) positively impacted more than 33,000 households across three wards of Mumbai—K-East (...
Article - 10/01/2020
Active Region(s): India
Eight cities in Uttar Pradesh have been identified for installation of e-charging facility for two, three and four-wheelers. According to a recent proposal, the e-charging facilities under the smart city projects will be simultaneously launched in...
Article - 10/01/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Noida Authority launched an integrated control room for the better management of solid waste in the city. The objective of the ‘Integrated Control and Command Centre’ is to monitor the waste collection, transportation, and remediation of the...
Article - 10/01/2020
Active Region(s): India
CBRE India’s Government Practice - a dedicated vertical for undertaking government and public sector mandates, recently crossed the coveted milestone of providing services across 100 top cities in the country. The services provided by CBRE...
Article - 10/01/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Patna Municipal Corporation has come out with a plan to improve its ranking in the next Swachh Survekshan survey, which is conducted annually by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoUHA) under the Swachh Bharat Mission.This time,...
Article - 10/01/2020
Active Region(s): India