IDC Government Insights has named the 35 cities, states, counties and universities to make the finals of its second annual Smart Cities North America Awards.
Singapore, Tokyo, New York city, London and Shanghai lead the way in terms of 2018 investments while the three largest use cases will attract nearly one quarter of global smart cities spending
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.