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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
Santander, the capital of Spain’s autonomous region on the northern coast of Spain, was once home to a royal summer residence and still seeks to showcase this “aristocratic atmosphere” while providing visitors and citizens with another view: waste-...
Article - 10/09/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Waste management
Milan is one of a handful of cosmopolitan cities thrusting billions of euros into neglected neighbourhoods as part of a modernization plan that will make the city more attractive—and sustainable—than ever. Dubbed CityLife Park, the inspiration for...
Article - 06/18/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
The city of Hamburg currently ranks second-largest in Germany, with population of 1.8 million that’s expected to grow 20 percent by 2045. Not only is the city a cosmopolitan one, it’s also one of the country’s industrial hubs, with Europe’s third-...
Article - 05/30/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Waste management
Running an island is hard work. Sure, some like Ibiza thrive as vacation destinations and profit from tourism, but due to their insularity, many are heavily dependent on energy—especially fossil fuels. Islands are also faced with the challenge of...
Article - 11/29/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
In India, where there are cities struggling to provide even basic amenities to their tax-paying citizens, a village in Gujarat—Punsari—is equipped with modern amenities like CCTV cameras, WiFi and a renewable energy power station. However, a...
Article - 08/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Solapur, a textile and bidi manufacturing hub, is one of the major cities of Maharashtra that attracts a sizeable number of visitors for business or commercial purposes. The city is also of religious importance with more than five lakh pilgrims...
Article - 08/03/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Coimbatore with a decadal growth rate of around 20% is a rapidly growing city in the state of Tamil Nadu. Known as Manchester of India, the city is undertaking numerous initiatives towards improving basic services and quality of life of citizens....
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
Indore, being the largest and the most populous city in Madhya Pradesh with a population of around 20 lakh (according to the 2011 census), the Indore Municipal Corporation considers sanitation and solid waste management as its topmost priority....
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Transportation, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Data management
Tackling waste is a problem of plenty. However, by just implementing comprehensive waste segregation and management plan, Mahabalipuram, a temple town in Tamil Nadu, has shown the entire country how to be 100 per cent waste-free. Surprisingly, the...
Article - 07/18/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Energy, Health and human services, Waste management
For many cities, it's a familiar story. Growth is a good thing. It means more and more people are attracted to your city. But it also means city governments need to come up with the resources to expand and improve services to meet the expectations...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
As the world population explodes, so does the amount of trash generated. In fact, just this decade, the amount of waste generated worldwide could double.Below you’ll read about several cities that are putting the brakes on that wasteful growth. As...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Washington, D.C. officials have developed the strategies that will help them achieve their long-term vision for a truly connected smart city. Now, working with Council Lead Partner Cisco, the district is taking the next step: building the framework...
Article - 10/28/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity
Collecting trash from public places using a traditional paper-based scheduling and tracking system – and sometimes by using intuition and memory – isn't the most efficient way to stay ahead of accumulated trash. In January, Edinburgh city officials...
Article - 09/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Siemens offers new power grid automation systemCouncil Associate Partner Siemens is marketing a new telecontrol and power grid automation system intended for use in distribution network automation,...
Article - 09/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners...Schneider Electric, Black & Veatch chosen for military advanced microgrid projectCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric and Associate Partner Black & Veatch have been chosen to develop one...
Article - 07/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
According to the media, there is a recycling crisis. Some recyclers are losing millions and closing facilities. Some materials that used to be valuable aren’t any longer. Packaging trends have made others more expensive to reuse.But people WANT to...
Article - 05/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
IBM, Cisco and Microsoft ranked as the top three smart city suppliers by Navigant ResearchCouncil Lead Partners IBM, Cisco and Microsoft were named the top three smart city suppliers in the recent Navigant Research Leaderboard Report. These smart...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
If your city is dirty, there are a lot of reasons why you need to clean it up. Trash piles attract rodents, creating a public health problem. Filth can also make your city less attractive for economic development.Illegal dumping not only makes the...
Article - 03/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
By David Post, Executive Manager, Global Smarter Cities, IBMThe combination of surging population growth and rapid urbanization continue to place stress on a wide range of city services. In addition to pursuing innovative solutions in areas...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
With city populations expected to grow at an increasing rate for the next 10 years or so, cities are doing everything they can to keep up with the demand for improved and expanded services and a better quality of life -- and do it while...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Waste management
Most cities are trying to do a better job at managing resources such as water, power, gas and waste. And most cities are trying to find jobs for the chronically under-employed. Here's an idea from Veolia that combines the two. Rather that use old-...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Economic development, Waste management
Every time you throw something away, you’re throwing away money. And collectively, we’re throwing more away than ever. A troubling World Bank report finds that by the turn of the century, we’re on pace to triple the amount of solid waste we are...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
At first glance, it may not seem like a big deal that some chemicals and a few bugs from the hospital wind up in our water. That's what treatment plants are for, right?Yes, but a lot of the chemicals that have been found in wastewater -- like...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Envision America involves a year-long commitment in which representatives of selected cities will work with a variety of experts to develop their smart city projects, the technologies they need to accomplish them, determine costs and come up with an...
Article - 01/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management
Under the AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) plan, the Madhya Pradesh government has proposed to improve basic infrastructure relating to water supply and sewerage network services besides storm water drainage, urban...
Article - 11/06/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
With just another 45-odd days remaining for the deadline to submit a comprehensive sustainable Smart Cities Proposal (SCP) under the Smart Cities Challenge, most of the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) are working overtime to find out the best solutions...
Article - 11/02/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Policy frameworks and tools
The connection between solid waste and polluted groundwater is ominous. analyses some trends in solid waste management. What is the scope of your work in India? We are a company that manages 300,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day. Unlike...
Article - 10/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
The Panvel Municipal Council (PMC) is planning to light up about 100 street lights by using bi-gas, using a grant of Rs 25 lakh to revive its defunct bio-gas plant. The plant which was earlier handled by the PMC works department, has now been...
Article - 10/26/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management, Interoperability
The Ministry of Urban Development has approved the first batch of state level Action Plans under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) aimed at enabling water supply as per the norm and providing water supply and sewerage...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Financing and procurement tools
Innovative smart cities solutions come from many sources. Scroll down to learn about competition-winning concepts for drastically reducing landfill waste, a model for zero-energy buildings, outstanding smart city initiatives -- and a new UK...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Waste management
In its bid to stop open defecation and make the city cleaner, the Agra Municipal Corporation (AMC) is offering Rs 8,000 per household for construction of new toilets in houses without the basic facility.In order to avail the cash benefit, the...
Article - 10/20/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Waste management
Malaysia's Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has proposed to invest $ 30 billion in two urban development and housing projects in India, as per a statement from the Ministry of Urban Development.Malaysia's Minister of Works, Haji...
Article - 10/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Computing resources, Financing and procurement tools
While the New York Times and some American waste haulers wonder if recycling is worth it, across the Atlantic there’s no question that it is. In fact, one company that started as a trash collector now thinks of itself as a recycling business.Council...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) emerged as the number one civic body for the Clean Earth Award for excellence in solid waste management under a nation-wide survey conducted by Andhra Pradesh Technology Development and Promotion Centre....
Article - 10/13/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
-Niranjan Zanzmera, Mayor, Surat Municipal CorporationThe city of Surat has long been known as the diamond polishing hub of the world, but there are other facets that have led the city to shine - including being one of the cleanest cities in the...
Article - 10/12/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
You might imagine that anything that can “turn poop into power” might generate a lot of juvenile headlines, and Washington, D.C.’s newly upgraded wastewater treatment plant has certainly done that. But it’s also dramatically cutting costs, carbon...
Article - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
Umesh Pratap Singh, Municipal Commissioner, Kanpur Municipal Corporation.There are many reasons why Kanpur is the city of promise. It's not just the largest city of Uttar Pradesh, but the fifth largest in India by land area, the 10th most populous...
Article - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management
Dr Pallavi Darade, Additional Municipal Commissioner (City), Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.Mumbai, the financial capital of India, is seeing a revival in its fortunes. With the economy on the upswing, there is a sense of expectation in the...
Article - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Waste management
The government has so far released Rs 1,038.72 crore under the Swachh Bharat mission, to urban areas across 30 states and Union Territories, the Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu briefed the media on the occasion of one year...
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Waste management
(File photo)In its bid to encourage residents for keeping its surrounding clean, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has come out with a unique concept of incentivising the households who cooperate the the civic body and help in waste...
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Waste management, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
Keeping in line with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to allow construction of private toilets in Mumbai slum area. The civic body has already begun removing...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
(Photo sourced from the original article)After months of delay, finally on 20 September, 2015, Navi Mumbai got its first set of nine e-toilets. The civic body was planning to set-up 14 e-toilets in the first place. Depending on how the project goes...
Article - 09/25/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
The National Conclave on Smart Technologies held in late August 2015, witnessed participation from various delegations and organizations across a wide spectrum of communities, from civic bodies, to state and national level government along with...
Article - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Public safety and security, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Absenteeism, proxy attendance, late coming, early leaving, frequent walks outside the office, chatting, gossiping, sleeping and even spending additional amount of time in the office loo, are some of the reasons for drop in quality productive output...
Article - 09/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Waste management
'Small is beautiful' is a phrase commonly used to acknowledge to 'small champions' or 'appropriate technologies' that are believed to empower people. In economic terms, smaller organisations or states are said to be functioned more effectively...
Article - 09/15/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management
While updating the Andhra Pradesh government on the status of the plan to develop a 'Smart City' in the state, the Essel Group's key executives met the chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and proposed to build a integrated resort city in AP. According...
Article - 09/14/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Waste management
Bhopal is among the seven cities short-listed from the state of Madhya Pradesh under the Centre's '100 Smart Cities' Mission.In a recent interview, Tejaswi S Naik, Municipal Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) spoke to a Construction...
Article - 09/10/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has taken the initiative to launch a new-age citizen centric solution service called 'BMC Sampark'. The service reinforces and supports the 'Swachh Bhubaneswar Abhiyan'. The service allows citizens to register...
Article - 09/08/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Kamikatsu, a small village in the mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan, aims at being the country's first 'Zero Waste' community by 2020. And going by the pace of implementation so far, it seems that the Japanese' town is very much on the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Examples and case studies
A 14-nodal planned township of Mumbai established in 1971, Navi Mumbai has been ranked third among 476 cities for sanitation practices and the only city from Maharashtra to finish in the top-ten list announced by the central government under the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
It's true of course. More people mean more garbage. So how are cities with limited space and limited waste management budgets supposed to deal with it? Longmont, Colorado and Houston, Texas are among those exploring what is considered by some to be...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Speaking at the Smart Cities Council India's first tour stop in Ahmedabad were, left to right: Camille Richardson of the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai; Pratap Padode, founder of Smart Cities Council India; Vishal Kundra of AECOM, and Neelesh Kelkar...
Article - 07/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Waste management, Policy and leadership
How do the biggest cities in the U.S. collect their residents' recyclables? The same way many towns across the country do these days -- in a single container.A research report from Resource Recycling says that nine of the 10 largest American cities...
Article - 05/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…GE launching waste-to-energy plant in the PhilippinesGE is supplying Aseagas Corp. with gas engines for the company’s first waste-to-electricity project in Lian in the Province of Batangas,...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
For a state withering in the midst of a persistent drought, the current National Weather Service forecast for California isn’t pretty: "… there is little chance if any for improvement." That’s why water conservation efforts, like one underway at a...
Article - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
A new report from the Green Investment Bank (GIB) highlights 10 innovative technologies that can modernize improve the UK's urban infrastructure. As all 10 are already being used in at least one UK city or town, the GIB suggests the technologies...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Finance and procurement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Allied Telesis expands solutions for schools, hospitals, governmentsIP networking leader and Council Lead Partner Allied Telesis expanded its popular range of xSeries distribution switches. The x930...
Article - 04/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity
Sorting trash is certainly a dirty job. Thanks to a project that’s already in the prototype phase, however, it may not have to be for much longer.Council Associate Partner Veolia is testing a new remote operated sorting system where a touch screen...
Article - 03/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management, Examples and case studies
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Bogota's urban mobility transformation gets a boost from MasterCardRecaudo Bogota, Bancolombia and Council Lead Partner MasterCard are introducing electronic payments to promote and facilitate access...
Article - 02/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Payments, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control