News

IDC names "best and brightest" North American smart city projects

10 Mar 2020

The winning projects include an Alexa-assisted citizen contact centre and data-driven systems to reduce flooding and address road accident hotspots.

NYC seeks tech solutions to boost support for mental health and tenants’ rights

02 Mar 2020

Up to two winners will be selected for each challenge and they will be eligible to receive $20,000 and pilot their technology in NYC for a year.

Uber joins privacy coalition to curb city data collection

02 Mar 2020

Newly formed CARS says it wants to “set the record straight” about MDS programmes but LADOT called it “a disinformation campaign”.

San Francisco’s Market Street goes car-free

30 Jan 2020

San Francisco is the latest of a growing number of cities to close off some or all of the centre to private vehicles.

Carlsbad rips up the RFP in favour of challenge-based search for transformation partners

08 Nov 2019

Carlsbad wants to be the “best-run government” around and is seeking digital transformation partners to support this.

NYC targets nine facilities for deep energy retrofits

04 Oct 2019

A deep energy retrofit aims to achieve a 50 per cent or greater reduction in building energy usage and can reduce carbon emissions 30 per cent or more.

Special Reports

Building bridges in the Covid-19 fightback

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Octavi de la Varga, secretary general of Metropolis, about how its digital platform is helping the global village battle against Covid-19.