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'Innovating to include' is the message we think resonates best with the effort to lift up vulnerable populations in communities around the world. Often we're talking about technology, but as you'll read below, innovation comes in many forms. –...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Shelter
"Poor housing linked to rising asthma cases in Europe," reads a recent EURACTIV headline. Damp and moldy buildings, bad heating, poor insulation are all suspect. In fact in Bulgaria, the article suggests 46.5% of the population is unable to keep...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
In this chapter, you’ll learn how a simple roadmapping process can put you on the path to a smart city. We’ve hinted at this next point before, but now we’re just going to say it: Technology is the easy part. The hard part is turning ideas into...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
“More with less” is one of the promises of smart city technology -- and nowhere is this more true than in payments and finance. By leveraging the techniques explained in this chapter, city governments can spend less while offering citizens more...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
From the standpoint of the average citizen, public safety is one of the most visible and perhaps most understood of city responsibilities. We see aid vehicles, lights flashing as they race to the scene of an accident. We watch firefighters on the...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) will transform the delivery of essential health, education and other human services in powerful ways – and smart cities will ride the wave to ensure a better life for their residents.Let’...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Surging population growth in cities is not only challenging city leaders to find better ways to deliver transportation, energy, public safety and other municipal services, it’s also forcing them to deal with more garbage. The good news is that smart...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Few people need to be reminded of water’s importance. Along with energy, it is essential for everyday life. Water provides sustenance, supports industry and irrigates fields. But city administrations are struggling to meet rising demand from growing...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
In this chapter we refer to transportation as any and every system that moves people around a city. Think of a city’s streets, vehicles, railways, subways, buses, bicycles, streetcars, ferries and so on. All play an essential role in the...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Ubiquitous broadband telecommunication is a prerequisite for a smart city. This chapter explains how to achieve a telecommunications architecture that can serve as the foundation of a smart city and the foundation for major improvements in...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
This chapter covers the critical role energy plays in smart cities. Not only does energy keep the lights on, heat our homes and businesses and pump our water, it powers the technologies that make smart cities possible. Reliable energy is essential....
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
The built environment is an essential piece of the smart city puzzle. Buildings are the biggest single source of carbon emissions, accounting for about 40% of the world’s carbon footprint, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Some of today’s greatest cities benefitted from visionaries who – centuries ago – saw possibilities for civic betterment and made it happen. A compelling example comes from leaders back in the 1800s. Way before the phrase “urban sprawl” had entered...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
A city isn't smart because it uses technology. A city is smart because it uses technology to make its citizens' lives better. This chapter focuses on the "secret sauce" that turns the idea of a smart city into reality – the people who live in the...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
The purpose of the Readiness Guide is to help you transform your vision for a smart city into a roadmap that will lead to successful implementation, and to do it on your own terms.This chapter gives you what you need to first create a wish list for...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
Welcome to the European Edition of the Smart Cities Readiness Guide. It was assembled with contributions from many of the world's leading smart city practitioners – members and advisors of the Smart Cities Council. It is intended to help you plan...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe
The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has appointed a consortium of three firms—Rudrabhishek Enterprises Pvt Ltd (REPL), Grant Thornton and ABN Consulting—as project management consultants for the implementation of Varanasi smart city project,...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): India
Convening is one of our core movement building activities here at SCCANZ, and we are passionate about sharing experiences, building capacity, and encouraging peer-to-peer networking. Here are four smart cities events to mark in your calendar for the...
Article - 05/31/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has described healthcare as IBM's "moonshot." Jacob Levenson, CEO of MAP Health Management, calls addiction "the great crisis of our time." Now the two companies are collaborating in what, as one healthcare expert put it, "...
Article - 05/30/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities, RG North America
Category: Wellness
If 43 states removed burdensome date labeling restrictions, it could save consumers and businesses more than $29 billion per year. That's one example of what policymakers and food waste reduction advocates can glean from Policy Finder, one of two...
Article - 05/30/2017
Active Region(s): Compassionate Cities, RG North America
Category: Food and Water
You know that old African proverb – "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Partnerships, my friends, are the new black. And this is not unique to the smart cities marketplace, it’s been the norm for some time. And...
Article - 05/30/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Connectivity
The Government is leaving no stone unturned to make the country digitally strong. Testimony to the fact is that the Government is working on a pilot project called “Digital Village”, which will provide free WiFi hotspots at more than 1,000 gram...
Article - 05/30/2017
Active Region(s): India
In a race to be ahead of its peers, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) has started implementing Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System. This IT-enabled traffic management system, which will be commissioned in the next nine months, will be...
Article - 05/29/2017
Active Region(s): India
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI), more of the global population will be using mobile phones than bank accounts or running water by 2021, with numbers estimated at 5.5 billion. In this regard, countries need to start looking...
Article - 05/27/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
About the Smart Cities CouncilThere is no other organization like the Smart Cities Council. We act as a market accelerator and advisor to cities – advocating for the transformation of urban areas into more liveable, workable and sustainable...
Article - 05/27/2017
Active Region(s): RG ANZ
Readiness WorkshopsIf you are still early in your smart cities journey but want hands-on help to plan and prepare, consider hosting a Smart Cities Readiness Workshop. These workshops are highly-interactive sessions that bring the lessons of...
Article - 05/26/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Ajmer has a vision of becoming one of India’s leading tourist destinations. A good national and state highway network connects the city to other parts of Rajasthan and many important cities in India. And now, having made it to the Government’s list...
Article - 05/26/2017
Active Region(s): India
As you’re developing your smart cities plans, it’s sometimes helpful to see what other cities — perhaps your neighbors — are doing. Each month, Onvia gives us an inside look at what cities are doing through the largest contracts they award and the...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Major advance in Schneider Electric and Microsoft collaborationThanks to a partnership between Council Lead Partners Schneider Electric and Microsoft, companies now have access to...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Connectivity
A former Director General of Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Mei-Hua Wang took over as Taiwan’s Vice Minister of Economic Affairs in July 2016. A law graduate from National Taiwan University, she was elevated to her present role as her...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
The World’s largest and unique biometrics based identification programme with a real time online authentication infrastructure – the Aadhaar has been recognized in the recent UN Report on World Social Situation, 2016 as a developmental tool with...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
Do you want your city to be resilient in the face of natural and man-made disturbances? Do you want to gradually increase your use of distributed (local) renewables? In both cases, microgrids will be essential to your success.The electric power...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy
Photo credit: Dubai PoliceThe city of Dubai is roughly 10 years into an ambitious smart city strategy, one that focuses on making the city an "innovation benchmark" for other cities that want to be sustainable and globally competitive. And that...
Article - 05/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
We’ve written previously about efforts to use technology to battle social isolation, from the SmartLab in Seattle to a Meal Makers program in Scotland to the Dublin-based Freebird travel club for seniors. But to emphasize the importance of this...
Article - 05/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
There are international standards, there are laws, there are task forces and there are thousands of law enforcement officers trained to handle human trafficking cases. Yet it persists. The Polaris Project suggests nearly 30 million men, women and...
Article - 05/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities
Just as energy and water costs can account for a big chunk of a household's monthly budget, they also take a toll on public facilities – hospitals, government buildings, etc. Being able to reduce those costs can mean more budget available to meet...
Article - 05/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
In a quest to implement smart solutions, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd (BSCL) has finally approved the Master System Integrator (MSI) project. Through this, the city SPV can deploy state-of-the-art technology for traffic and parking management,...
Article - 05/24/2017
Active Region(s): India
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
Focusing on proof of concept, leveraging funding, and advancing inter-agency collaboration were but some of the successful approaches employed as part of this national smart cities program in New Zealand. Engagement with stakeholders was considered...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
There is no other organization like the Smart Cities Council. We act as a market accelerator and advisor to cities – advocating for the transformation of urban areas into more liveable, workable and sustainable communities. The Council is a...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): RG Europe