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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
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
'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
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
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
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 12th of 17 themes defined in the standard – solid waste indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 10/03/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Waste management, Smart City Tools