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The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), Delhi, has been entrusted with the task of preparing the Smart City proposals for Dharamsala, the picturesque town of Himachal Pradesh. The consultant has been given the taks to prepared the smart city plan...
Article - 09/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools
Nine months down the line, after the government launched its ambitious power-saving schemed of replace conventional street lights with energy-efficient LED lamps in cities is gathering momentum now.According to data sourced from the Energy...
Article - 09/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Energy
Last week, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) briefed the Union Development Minister on its vision to convert its small city into a smart city.The civic body plans to make efficient use of its scarce resources like water and energy in developed...
Article - 09/30/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
As India prepares itself to launch on the global platform for Smart Cities, through the NDA government's '100 Smart Cities' mission, the Smart Cities Council of India had organized a Conclave on Smart Technologies which housed the national and...
Article - 09/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity
The networking major, which has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra government as an advisory role for developing smart cities in the state, is set to chalk out net-based solutions plan for the Nagpur city.According to a...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Bhubaneswar, the administrative, economic and cultural capital of Odisha, is one of the two cities shortlisted from the state for the 100 Smart Cities nation-wide challenge. The city is an emerging information technology (IT) hub with a strong...
Article - 09/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement strategies and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
The minister for Urban development put it in simplest of words, that Smart Cities means 'Happily Livable Cities' and city planners should take into consideration the nature, culture of a particular town to develop a better future. Naidu also shed...
Article - 09/26/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy frameworks and tools
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 100 smart cities mission is on the global radar, and now even the United Kingdom expressing its willing to be a part in the India's success story.Recently, the minister of state for trade and investment of UK, Lord...
Article - 09/22/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) had readied the master-plan for Ponneri Smart City well in advance, and are now awaiting the Central and state government's nod to implent the same.According to media reports, Ichiguchi Tomohide, a...
Article - 09/22/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Visioning and roadmapping tools
While civic bodies, experts in the field of town planning, corporates, technology hubs and citizens alike are busy working over-time to prepare a detailed outlined plan for their respective cities, some in line with foreign cities like Singapore,...
Article - 09/21/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Smart City Examples
KT Rama Rao, Panchayat Raj & IT minister, Telangana addresses the participants at the National Conclave on Smart Cities hosted by the Smart Cities Council India and the government of Telangana, which was held on 22-23 August, 2015.KT Rama Rao...
Article - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Responsibility areas, Telecommunications
Think you need to greatly expand your city’s infrastructure? You may have nearly twice as much as you need. Surprised? Data and innovations that are already starting to appear are working to make that true.The pace of change in cities is...
Article - 09/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Connectivity
'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
Fresh water is a given for Milwaukee and other Great Lakes communities. While there's plenty of fresh water, Milwaukee has spent a lot of time and money to ensure that doesn't change -- and to aggressively expand its already growing water-based...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Water and wastewater, Policy frameworks and tools
Nashik is one of the ten cities selected from the state of Maharashtra. The city has a total population of over 16 lakh, and annual budget allocation for the civic body as of date is pegged at Rs 1,200 crore.In a recent interview to Construction...
Article - 09/10/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts
The Smart Cities Council is pleased to introduce the Smart Cities Readiness Workshop program.Developed specifically for government officials and technology engineers, the workshops promote an interactive learning environment to help...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Smart City Tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
On his experience on retrofitting and rebuilding Barcelona, Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect, Barcelona City Council was addressing an audience at Construction World Architect & Builder Awards 2015 shares his views and ideas on how the focus...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Smart City Examples
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
Though the Indian government is actively pushing the smart cities initiative and has allocated Rs 98,000 crore for '100 Smart Cities Mission' in India. Clearly it is not enough, agrees Pratap Padode, founder and director of Smart Cities Council...
Article - 09/08/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Smart City Examples
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
Though the 'Smart Cities' initiatives around the globe are great case studies, each city has unique characteristics and problems and should focus on finding contextual local solutions.A Business Insider report quoted Managing Director of CISCO...
Article - 09/03/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Smart City Examples, Smart City Tools
New Town Kolkata could be the first city in West Bengal to get a smart fuelling zone. The states petrol pumps, will have additional facilities such as recharge of electric-run vehicles, Wi-fi hotspot and electronic surveillance system. The zone has...
Article - 09/03/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
In a major boost to the Chandigarh city, the South Korean government has expressed its willingness to provide technology as well as finances to build the first-of-its-kind 'Smart city' at New Chandigarh.The offer was extended by Korean company -...
Article - 09/03/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts
India Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah NaiduBy Pratap Padode Founder, Smart Cities Council India The India Smart Cities Challenge is a competition designed to inspire and support municipal officials as they develop smart proposals to improve...
Article - 09/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership