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The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has moved proposals before the finance ministry’s Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for seeking financial assistance from France and Germany for funding its five-year Smart City mission.The ministry's...
Article - 10/12/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Payments, Computing resources, Financing and procurement tools
Madhya Pradesh seems to be all set to receive a deluge of funding from Japanese firms in core infrastructure projects following a 10-day trip by the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to Japan and South Korea.During his visit, the minister met...
Article - 10/12/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Payments, Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Financing and procurement tools
For nearly 25 years, Somalia’s economy has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world. A civil war caused its financial system to collapse and concerns about fraud have stood in the way of rebuilding it. But Council Lead Partner MasterCard is...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Payments, Computing resources, Security and privacy
Can you imagine if people cut their power lines the way they have been cutting the cord with their cable television providers? Between distributed energy generation, conservation and other advances, that scenario isn’t quite as farfetched as it...
Article - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
When your city is short of cash and raising taxes just isn’t an option, what can you do? Some cities are getting the money they need by doing a better job of collecting the on the taxes they already collect. And technology is making it easier to for...
Article - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Analytics, Computing resources, Finance and procurement
Often people think of "the cloud" as a massive data repository somewhere online where email and documents are stored for easy access. But the cloud is much more than that, and government agencies around the world are finding the cloud can help them...
Article - 10/01/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
While the experts continue to argue about whether the future of Bitcoin has any merit, businesses, cities and even some elected officials are hedging their bets and carefully embracing it.Bitcoin’s latest boost came from the state of California,...
Article - 07/11/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Payments, Computing resources, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for the latest short takes from Council members.Bechtel wins award for innovative project in Australia: Council Global Partner Bechtel has won a CETI Award for the company’s innovative use of RFID technology on the liquefied natural gas...
Article - 04/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Payments, Analytics, Computing resources