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Ignoring the government’s Covid-19 protocol against gatherings, the UDF-led ruling front under Mayor Soumini Jain presented the last annual budget of the present council. Deputy Mayor K R Premkumar, who presented the budget for the 2020-21 fiscal,...
Article - 03/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
Amid chief minister Yogi Adityanath announcing lockdown in 17 districts to get them sanitized in the wake of coronavirus threat, the Department of Urban Development has placed a slew of cleanliness measures to arrest its spread.In a communique to...
Article - 03/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Nashik Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) bid to appoint a private agency to collect and transport construction and demolition waste failed to receive any response on two occasions. Now, the civic body has invited a fresh Request for Proposal (RfP)...
Article - 03/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has deployed 10,000 workers for cleaning of streets, hospitals, housing complexes and markets as part of a special cleanliness drive to keep neighbourhoods clean in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. According to a...
Article - 03/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
A separate group of garbage collectors will collect and dispose of waste from the homes of people under home quarantine. “There will be a separate vehicle to collect and transport the waste generated in the houses of home quarantined persons. The...
Article - 03/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT:Investors:Antonella Franzen(609) 720-4665Ryan Edelman(609) 720-4545Media:Phil Clement(414) 208-5161Fraser Engerman(414) 308-8321JOHNSON CONTROLS DELIVERS MISSION CRITICAL ‘ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND PERSONNEL’...
Article - 03/23/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The second largest city in the Telangana, Warangal, which is also referred to as tri-city since it consists of three towns—Warangal, Hanamkonda and Kazipet—will soon witness rapid growth, with the State government giving it approval for the Master...
Article - 03/20/2020
Active Region(s): India
With a view to further promote ‘Green Energy’ in the State, the Gujarat Government has cleared proposals worth Rs 13.61 crore for installation of solar plants to power as many as 15 water treatment plant and/or sewage plants of 11 municipalities....
Article - 03/20/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken up a pilot project that promises to turn at least a part of Dhapa’s huge mountain of plastic waste into household furniture. Once the project kick-starts by the beginning of next month, the idea is...
Article - 03/20/2020
Active Region(s): India
After considerable delay, the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has installed two new air quality monitors in the city – one on the Gurugram-Faridabad Road and the other in Sector 51. Data from the latter, located at Gurugram University...
Article - 03/20/2020
Active Region(s): India
This year’s Smart City Rankings released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has been a cheer for Uttar Pradesh, as three of the state’s cities made it to the top 10 Smart Cities. Apart from Agra topping the list, Kanpur and...
Article - 03/20/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Council (SCC) hosted Smart Cities Week Australia 2020 event scheduled for 26-28 August in Melbourne will reorganise as a series of intense online collaborations, followed by a one-day networking opportunity. The announcement was...
Article - 03/17/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Following its nation leading ‘Switching on Darwin’ smart cities deployment, the City of Darwin has again demonstrated its commitment to digital innovation by becoming the first Australian city to join a global smart cities project exchange.Earlier...
Article - 03/15/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Following the State Government’s proposal to make Visakhapatnam the executive capital of the state, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) has come up with a slew of measures to modernise public transportation. Recently, RTC...
Article - 03/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
Infosys announced that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program to offer end-to-end solutions for smart stadiums, smart venues and smart event management. This program is designed to connect cities, municipalities, government...
Article - 03/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
Indore’s mission towards a cleaner city has been a rather rewarding one. Over the past few years, Indore has been pushing the boundaries with new technologies and powerful initiatives when it comes to keeping the city clean. Among the newest of...
Article - 03/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
In a bid to map Mumbai’s actual waste collection from every area—what time it was collected from a particular society, is it being segregated into wet and dry and, if treated, what kind of treatment is used—the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (...
Article - 03/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
At a time when India is battling air pollution, especially in the national capital and adjoining Ghaziabad, which have been designated as one of the most polluted cities across the globe as studies suggest, Prakriti E-Mobility, is soon to launch an...
Article - 03/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Smart Cities Council launched today the first series of a new resource - the Smart Cities Info Cards.These cards are short and succinct knowledge resources to support awareness raising and capacity building of government stakeholders and...
Article - 03/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
2020 has kicked off with a focus on data here at SCCANZ. We have commenced our engagement on the Declaration of Data Leadership, we have our first 'data talk' webinar on Privacy Impact Assessment scheduled and on our podcast we have begun...
Article - 03/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
What is keeping Chelsey Stewart excited about the future of smart cities? We sat down with Hamilton City Council’s Smart Hamilton Programme Manager after the 2020 TechFest event to answer that question.The Smart Space launched by Hamilton City...
Article - 03/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
RK Tiwari, Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh expressed disappointment with Bareilly’s performance under the Smart City Mission. On February 17, marking out ‘zero progress’ on the projects Tiwari rapped Bareilly Municipal Corporation (BMC...
Article - 03/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has floated tenders for the balance works on Metro Line 2B from DN Nagar-Mandale with the total distance of 23.643 km long elevated corridor. The estimated expense of the fresh tender is...
Article - 03/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in collaboration with NTPC is gearing up to launch a Hydrogen fuel cell-based bus project in the union territory of Leh, MNRE secretary Anand Kumar said.“MNRE and NTPC propose to launch a pilot Fuel...
Article - 03/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Government of West Bengal plans to introduce electric vessels on the Hooghly, aiming to cut down on pollution by replacing the current fleet of old and rickety ferries, which West Bengal Pollution Control Board said, added to the air and water...
Article - 03/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Dharamshala Municipal Corporation passed a tax-free annual budget of Rs 1.39 billion for the year 2020-21. This budget has increased by 22 per cent over the previous year. The budget was passed unanimously for the year 2020-21, in the meeting...
Article - 03/06/2020
Active Region(s): India
Smart Cities Week San Diego - COVID-19 - CANCELLEDSee you at Smart Cities Week Washington DC, September 31 - October 1, 2020
Article - 03/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Virginia Chief Data Officer to ‘kick-off’ Device & Asset Management Collaborative PlanningCities helping cities to kick start your planning processThe Smart Cities Council will lead an online collaborative planning process for cities that seek...
Article - 03/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Inside Look: What cities were buying and planning in February 2020Companies seeking to supply smart cities with products or services in the early part of 2020 have plenty of opportunities available across the country. As more government agencies...
Article - 03/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Last year at Smart Cities Week Australia we ran a snap pole during one of the 'Data Room' break out sessions that tackled a range of data topics, such as privacy and governance. More than 40 people participated in the short survey, from a variety of...
Article - 03/04/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
We recently interviewed Charles Reed-Anderson on our Smart Cities Chronicles podcast, asking him to share the two provocative articles he wrote in January around the 'hype' associated with the many smart city ranking systems that are out there, as...
Article - 03/04/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has floated a tender for the proposed ropeway project of the corridor-I between Mahavir Nagar Metro Station on Metro Line-2A (Dahisar to DN Nagar) to Pagoda in Gorai village on the basis...
Article - 02/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Nireshwalya Government School in Mangaluru will soon be declared as the first Smart School under the Smart City Mission. The Mangaluru Smart City Limited (MSCL) had commenced the smart school project in 13 schools. The MSCL had earmarked Rs 11...
Article - 02/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is planning to launch a pilot project in the township to recycle wastewater for various purposes, including washing and gardening. The authorities are setting a target to achieve recycling of...
Article - 02/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The State and National Highways, criss-crossing Kerala, will soon have thousands of toilet complexes, thanks to an ambitious sanitation initiative drawn up by the Left government. The State Government is planning to set up 12,000 pairs of public...
Article - 02/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Centre has devised a 20-20 model to pair the top 20 cities with the bottom 20 and help the lagging cities to kick-start the smartening up process by borrowing technical know-how and financial studies. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs...
Article - 02/28/2020
Active Region(s): India
Information about this 'cities helping cities' online collaborative planningVirginia Chief Data Officer Carlos Rivero will 'kick-start' the planning process City of Wichita Smart City Coordinator Michael J. Barnett will lead the planning...
Article - 02/27/2020
Active Region(s): North America
Register here.Cities helping cities to kick start your planning processThe Smart Cities Council will lead an online collaborative planning process for cities that seek to implement device and asset management.This is for cities only and any city in...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
The Peak Industry group for smart cities in Australia has celebrated the launch of the nation’s Infrastructure Priority List, published by Infrastructure Australia (IA) as part of their central role in guiding priority investments in the nation’s...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
For almost a year we have tinkered with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We have been tinkering to try and understand how these globally accepted goals and targets could be a framework for purpose, for the smart cities movement.And our work has...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Welcome to Data Talk, our data leadership webinar series hosted by the Centre for Data Leadership.Our first webinar on Tuesday 17th March will focus on Privacy Impact Assessment as a valuable tool for any local government organisation seeking to...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Earlier this week NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello MP launched the NSW Digital Twin, an open platform for visualising data in 4D overtime. The launch was attended by leading policy makers, practitioners, technologists and...
Article - 02/25/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Say goodbye to unkempt and unhygienic public toilets. As part of Smart Toilet initiative under the Smart City project, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has installed new-age public toilets at Nehrunagar, Kankaria, Prahladnagar and Jodhpur...
Article - 02/21/2020
Active Region(s): India
Ramakrishna Mission has launched a startup dedicated to handling wet waste, Mangala Resource Management Institute. Spurred by havoc wrought by the sliding down of waste from the landfill at Pachchanady into Mandarabailu in the monsoon, the startup...
Article - 02/21/2020
Active Region(s): India
Developed with an investment of Rs 1 crore, country’s first state-of-the-art clinic started operating outside Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) head office on MG Road in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.The clinic, developed under the Smart City project, is...
Article - 02/21/2020
Active Region(s): India
Six months after the launch of the command and control center under the Smart Cities Mission by the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), citizens can now register all their grievances related to any civic issue at one place.People can lodge...
Article - 02/21/2020
Active Region(s): India
Nine Gram Panchayats of Indore District will soon turn into Swachhscape like Indore city with district administration planning to implement cluster-wise waste management system to streamline and upgrade services. With this one-of-a-kind initiative,...
Article - 02/21/2020
Active Region(s): India
From the Smart Cities Council - A recent survey by the Smart Cities Council of Virginia cities and counties (all 139 of them) found that a fundamental use-case for data sharing was managing assets and devices. This is partly explained by the...
Article - 02/19/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
For more than six years the Smart Cities Council has led the global smart cities agenda. Our core pillars of work have been through informing, educating, convening and advocating. From 2020 we are dedicating resources to extend this...
Article - 02/19/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
We are delighted to share with you our 2020 Strategy for the region, providing information on our goals, enablers and core programs.Guided by our vision to be the regions peak body for smart cities advocacy and action, and to support the use of...
Article - 02/17/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Centre introduced two indices to improve the quality of life and civic amenities across major cities in the country. Apart from gauging the extent of civic services and quality of life in over 100 cities, the indices will throw up detailed data...
Article - 02/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to set up a control room for real-time tracking of waste collection vehicles so that they can be monitored closely, and to crack down on contractors who are found to be slacking. Though the BMC’s...
Article - 02/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
The Minister for State for personnel, public grievances and pensions and Prime Minister’s office Dr Jitendra Singh said that Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed radiation technology for the treatment of municipal sewage.Furnishing the...
Article - 02/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
Taking note of the vehicular traffic rush in Bhubaneswar, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation is going to formulate a Smart parking policy very soon. The new parking policy will be jointly formulated by BMC, Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA...
Article - 02/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
Maharashtra Cabinet approved the first phase of sewage treatment in 391 ubran local bodies across the State. The urban development department’s proposal has been moved for the cabinet nod.Nearly 9758.57 million litre of sewage is generated per day...
Article - 02/12/2020
Active Region(s): India
A new report claiming to place Australia’s local governments “under the smart city microscope” has been called out for its lack of rigour by the Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ).Smart Cities Down Under: Performance of Australian...
Article - 02/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
We are excited to introduce you to the Centre for Data Leadership, one of many new initiatives by the Council for 2020. The Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand launched the Centre for Data Leadership after more than three years of...
Article - 02/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Smart Cities Council has released a summary of its 2019 award winners, demonstrating the depth and breadth of the incredible work being advanced by the public sector and their private sector and academia partners.Seventeen winners and highly...
Article - 02/11/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
IDC recently identified the US as one of the top smart city markets for 2020. This forecast is reinforced by the policy proposals of the 2020 US Presidential candidates. In fact, we found a strong focus on not only infrastructure; but...
Article - 02/07/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Readiness Cities
Smart Cities Week is the region's premier gathering of smart cities leaders coming together to network, exchange and create opportunities for accelerating the region’s sustainability through technology and data solutions.SCW Australia...
Article - 02/07/2020
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand