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Often, prospective home buyers land up paying the price for purchasing an illegal property. Due to fraudulent title deed, thrd-party buyers are left high and dry. Buying someone else’s deed is a common sight in India. House owners have received...
Article - 11/30/2016
Active Region(s): India
It’s raining tenders for the city of Visakhapatnam. Come this December, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) is likely to float proposals including smart schools, 24x7 water supply, cycling tracks, public toilets, bus stops, modern...
Article - 11/29/2016
Active Region(s): India
Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, is also known for rising criminal activities — molestations, thefts, chain-snatching incidents, housebreaks, and murders.The numbers reveal the story: over the last five years, the city has witnessed an...
Article - 11/28/2016
Active Region(s): India
Education is the foundation of sustained growth of a country. But rural India has dingy and dilapidated schools without access to electricity and sanitation, and an acute paucity of teachers.According to experts, the last and only resort to such a...
Article - 11/24/2016
Active Region(s): India
In a strategic move to decongest and allow swift access to the Metro station, Kochi Metro Rail Ltd has invited tenders for construction of modern grade walkways near Hospital Road as part of the Cochin Smart City Mission Walkway Projects. The cost...
Article - 11/24/2016
Active Region(s): India
Arsenic contamination in Indian subcontinent's groundwater is unarguably the worst form of water poisoning in the world. News and government reports suggest that in India, around 7.4 crore people spread across 12 states and beyond have been already...
Article - 11/23/2016
Active Region(s): India
It's the reality so many cities know all too well. Urban populations are growing and that means more people depending on them for essential city services, whether it's mass transit, public safety, energy, water or the other services that make cities...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.An innovative microgrid partnership for Siemens and LO3 EnergyCouncil Associate Partner Siemens will work with New York startup LO3 Energy to jointly develop microgrids that enable local energy...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater
Indian Smart Cities are witnessing a sea change. Initially, the focus was more towards strengthening basic infrastructure, but gradually, it has moved to the use of upgraded technology. But the adoption of technology by Indian municipal corporations...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): India
A smart, quick fix to kick start Smart Cities in IndiaThe Prime Minister’s pet product, the Smart City Mission, is a revolutionary initiative to transform cities, the way it has never been attempted before. Some of the critical aspects of Smart City...
Article - 11/21/2016
Active Region(s): India
Water availability is declining rapidly, due to rising population, industrial use, and urbanisation. Available water also faces a threat from pollution because it gets mixed with wastewater streams. This is where the significance of the ‘Water4Crops...
Article - 11/21/2016
Active Region(s): India
For those of you who remember collecting pennies for UNICEF as kids, you may find the modern-day UNICEF quite interesting. It's using its 190 offices, 12,000 staff and a VC-style investment portfolio to source and support startups that more...
Article - 11/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
Our story summarizes new research that should interest city officials, particularly those in coastal communities subject to frequent damaging storms. In addition to explaining why wetlands are useful in disaster situations—and this is a key takeaway...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
Microgrids do more than simply provide stand-alone emergency backup power. They can help communities integrate renewable energy resources and energy storage, decentralize their sources of power while maximizing those assets and help ensure that...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy
In most cities, the question of a natural disaster is not typically a question of “if,” it is a question of “when.” Since you can’t prevent it entirely, the best you can do is to try to mitigate it and help your community recover quickly.The latter...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
Even more than electricity, cities need clean water. People can’t live without it. So what are you doing to ensure your water is safe? If you’ve been relying on luck, you have to look no farther than Flint, Mich., to see what can go wrong. Perhaps...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
In a natural disaster, your roads and bridges are critical lifelines. And they may be at greater risk than they ever have been before. The climate is changing, our storms may be changing too. Some models suggest that severe storms may become even...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment
The UK's largest food bank network reports that last year was its busiest year ever recorded – but the number of emergency food parcels The Trussel Trust has handed out already this year suggests that record may be broken. It's a worrisome trend in...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
In keeping with the Government of India’s mandate to implement e-governance in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), the Government of Odisha’s Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) Department has initiated several steps to improve citizen services. The ‘...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): India
Citizens across the country face major problems in reporting civic issues to the relevant Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). The scenario is gradually changing now, thanks to technological intervention. The intervention — smart apps — may be a setback for...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): India
As part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), the Government of India is leaving no stone unturned in developing the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) at a rapid speed. This initiative is being undertaken to create a major...
Article - 11/16/2016
Active Region(s): India
A charity in Bolivia is using a social media strategy to bring joy to lonely seniors by recruiting young people to engage with them. With an aging global population, it's a compassionate model worth exploring elsewhere – a way to promote social...
Article - 11/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
State governments across India have implemented various schemes for the betterment of their citizens. However, due to lack of awareness, the larger section of the population has not got the chance to take advantage of the welfare schemes on offer....
Article - 11/15/2016
Active Region(s): India
As Nancy Curby of Feeding America puts it, "Every dollar a food bank saves on utility costs becomes a dollar that helps to serve more families who face hunger." That says enough about the value of the water and energy efficiency pilot that Southface...
Article - 11/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Food and Water
Spitting out money is in the nature of an ATM (automated teller machine). However, a small village, Fetri in Nagpur, was in sudden shock when inhabitants witnessed an ATM discharging a 7/12 land extract. Believe it or not, it’s true! Since the...
Article - 11/14/2016
Active Region(s): India
We can't help but like the idea behind the Not Impossible Awards, a new program from Not Impossible Labs in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and World Bank's Connect4Climate initiative. The awards will focus attention on projects and...
Article - 11/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Predictive policing, the process of using data and analytics to anticipate where and when crimes will occur, has taken a lot of heat from critics who say it encourages discrimination against certain segments of the population and racial profiling....
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
While local funding options like tax measures and municipal bonds may be available to help police departments finance new and enhanced programs, that's not always the case. Federal agencies can often fill in those frustrating budget gaps. — Doug...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
One message that came through loud and clear on Nov. 8 is that voters from coast to coast support efforts to help the homeless and build more affordable housing units in their cities. And in many cases they're willing to dig into their pockets to...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
If you asked your residents what their biggest concerns are, public safety would likely be at nearly the top of the list. That’s true for most every major city. And providing it is a tough job.A new survey of Washington, D.C., residents highlights...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
In India, the municipal bond market is largely untapped. Over the last 14 years, only a handful of municipal corporations have managed to raise funds from bond issues to the tune of a mere Rs 671 crore. However, the game has changed with the...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): India
The Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation in Kerala is gearing up for the Smart Cities Challenge rolled out by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). The municipal corporation has decided to invite requests for proposals (RFPs) from 48...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): India
Be it in reel or real life, Indian citizens are used to the adage — the police are always late. However, not many know that the Gandhinagar Police has demolished the jinx of being “latecomers”, setting an example that can be followed by various...
Article - 11/09/2016
Active Region(s): India
Leaders struggling to do more with less should not ignore the benefits the Internet of Things (IoT) brings to internal government operations. Read about the many benefits IoT offers local governments and citizens in a new white paper from the...
Article - 11/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
India is indeed going all out for its Smart City Mission (SMC) programme. The seriousness has come from none other than urban local bodies (ULBs), which are de facto part of the newly established special purpose vehicles (SPVs) for every winning...
Article - 11/08/2016
Active Region(s): India
Governments need to treat opioid addiction as an illness, not a criminal act, the UN's chief of drug prevention said during a recent conference in Baltimore. Today opioid addicts are discriminated against and victims of stigma, Dr. Gilbert Gerra...
Article - 11/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
The Smart City Mission (SMC) programme of the Indian government is gaining pace. Importantly, city administrations across India have taken it seriously, rather than giving it the cold shoulder.At the moment, four Smart Cities — Nagpur Smart City,...
Article - 11/07/2016
Active Region(s): India
Security experts have been warning us about for years: increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks are coming — and more of them. A recent study and last month's denial of service attack that shut down several high-profile websites underscore how...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity, Security and privacy
The project outlined in the release below is a good example of how smart, sustainable technologies, the right partners and careful but innovative planning can do far more than simply provide clean, reliable renewable energy for a facility. They can...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
By Jesse Berst, Chairman, Smart Cities CouncilThe Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants have just opened for entries. I hope every American city will participate because I’m convinced every city will get a win just by entering. Let me...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
(Redmond, WA) – Nov. 3, 2016 – How local governments around the world are leveraging the Internet of Things to improve customer service and benefit their citizens is the focus of a compelling new white paper from Microsoft and the Smart Cities...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Wondering how the Internet of Things can deliver valuable benefits in your neighborhoods and downtowns? Then don't miss the new white paper the Council produced with Microsoft; it's loaded with examples of IoT in action in cities around the world....
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
An important reminder from India Vice President Hamid Ansari that libraries have a vital role to play in closing the gap between rich and poor in our world by ensuring equitable and affordable access to knowledge. To do that efficiently, of course,...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
In today’s time, there is a need to digitise police records and build IT-enabled systems to help investigating officials get criminal data at the click of a mouse. In this regard, the Centre’s Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): India
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has issued a request for proposal (RFQ) for selection of a Smart City Mission Management Unit (MMU) for the effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of mission activities and providing technical...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): India
According to the World Health Organization, cancers of all types claim approximately 680,000 lives each year in India, making it the second leading cause of death in the country after heart disease. There are one million new cancer cases diagnosed...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): India
Five winning cities will get free products, services, assessments, advice and assistance to accelerate progress(Washington, D.C.) – November 2, 2016 – Smart Cities Council, the world’s largest smart cities network, launched its application for...
Article - 11/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Bhubaneswar will soon float requests for proposal (RFPs) to implement an intelligent traffic management system (ITMS) under its Smart City Mission plan. Once the tender process is completed, the implementing agency will have to complete the project...
Article - 11/02/2016
Active Region(s): India
Citizens in South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) area can now register their complaints through a Mobile app about faulty LED streetlights.Energy Efficiency Services Ltd, under the Ministry of Power has launched a slew of new measures through...
Article - 11/02/2016
Active Region(s): India
A report released earlier this year by the National Institute of Health and Census Bureau suggests 617 million people in the world today are age 65 or older. But that number is expected to jump nearly 17% -- to 1.6 billion – by 2050. Furthermore,...
Article - 11/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Wellness
IBM Research is using the Internet of Things to help local farmers in Kenya optimize crop growth. As Dr. Kala Flemming explains in the brief video below, farmers using the EZ Farm IoT remote monitoring solution are seeing better quality produce and...
Resources - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Learn in this video from Council Lead Partner Cisco how 10-year-old Peyton Walton used video conferencing to continue attending class during cancer treatments, helping her to stay connected with her school while she fought to become cancer-free.
Resources - 11/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
A team from the University of Oxford hopes to lift five million people in rural Africa and Asia from water-related poverty by linking smart water pumps to the cloud. Learn in this video from Microsoft Research how Cortana Intelligence Suite is...
Resources - 11/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Developed markets and emerging markets alike are facing healthcare challenges in Asia Pacific, especially the lack of quick, efficient access to quality healthcare. Watch in this video how Council Lead Partner Microsoft and partners are working to...
Resources - 11/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness