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Financing city digitisation in a post-pandemic world

05 Mar 2021

Cities are facing a post Covid financial squeeze but there are ways of funding new projects.

The future of smart city technologySponsored by Huawei

02 Dec 2020

Imagination and vision is required to enable successful digital transformation in our cities, writes Huawei’s Nadim Abdulrahim.

Jointly building a smart city helps us all enjoy better urban livesSponsored by Huawei

24 Nov 2020

Closed ecosystems mean limited choices, limited innovation, limited success, writes York Yuekun.

How Covid-19 has made smart cities smarter than ever

16 Nov 2020

Covid-19 is speeding up the changes to our transport networks, writes Mark Nicholson, CEO of Vivacity Labs

Think Tank: collaboration, as much as tech, will rebuild smart cities

26 Oct 2020

In the first of a new series, SCW board members will write about the burning issues facing smart cities. First is Jacques Vermeulen, Nokia’s Director of Future Cities.

Overcoming the innovation gap

15 Jun 2020

There is a gap between the aspirations of cities and the true capabilities of smart city technology, writes Anders Lisdorf.

Could FWA be the answer to keeping people connected during the global pandemic?

01 Jun 2020

Fixed Wireless Access’s speed and flexibility could have it serve a crucial role in helping businesses and public services rebuild in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, writes James Bristow, SVP EMEA, Cradlepoint

Covid-19: Thank you and an update

06 Apr 2020

A message to SmartCitiesWorld’s readers from the company’s founder and CEO.

The 14 pillars of a smart city

26 Mar 2020

Strategies must take a holistic approach encompassing people, institutions, structures and operations, say Clint Vince, founder of Dentons’ Smart Cities and Communities Think Tank, and Jennifer Morrissey, counsel at Dentons.

Smart cities: Overpromised and underdelivered

26 Feb 2020

Smart city projects must move away from the standard applications that many focus on and make a "technological leap", says Paul Moorby, CEO and founder of Chipside, a specialist software development company providing products and services to local and regional government traffic authorities in the UK.

Driving the MaaS conversation forward as the future of transport

19 Feb 2020

Mobility-as-a-service will only be successful if we can all come together to realise a joint vision of ensuring seamless travel for every commuter, says Andy Taylor, Director of Strategy, Cubic Transportation Systems.

The future of smart city tech: Helping governments be proactive, not reactive

07 Feb 2020

Applying smart technology to waste and recycling fleets provides a win for citizens, governments and the environment, and helps build equitable communities, says Rubicon’s Michael Allegretti.

New energy, changing behaviour and blockchain: 5 transport predictions for 2020

06 Jan 2020

Rabih Arzouni, Fujitsu UK’s CTO of transport, shares his transport predictions for the year ahead.

Towards the smart cities of 2025

31 Dec 2019

From tech trends to behavioural shifts and new ways to make smart cities economically sustainable, Matthew James Bailey explores what the next five years could look like.

Smart city trend tracker: The top stories on SmartCitiesWorld in 2019

20 Dec 2019

We round up our main takeaways from smart city developments in 2019. We’d love to hear yours.

Removing the roadblocks to smart city ROI

11 Nov 2019

Overarching strategies, funding approaches and business models all need to be adjusted if cities are to see a genuine return on their investment in smart city tech, says Itai Dadon, global head of smart cities at Itron.

Successful shared mobility in cities and beyond

08 Nov 2019

New mobility options can improve the livability of cities but without the right strategy could have the polar opposite effect, say authors Giel Mertens and Rolf Bastiaanssen of Bax & Company, and Nico Larco of the University of Oregon.

Cities are becoming smarter, but how do we make them safer and more resilient?

06 Nov 2019

Genetec’s Jean-Philippe Deby highlights critical factors that make a smart city a safe city too – these include communication and collaboration as well as technology.

Why utilities and cities make powerful partnerships

24 Oct 2019

A pioneering initiative between Georgia Power, the City of Atlanta and a team of technology partners, is showing the way to what’s next in smart cities and demonstrating the power of public-private partnerships. Austin Ashe, General Manager of Intelligent Cities at Current by GE, tells SmartCitiesWorld more about this ground-breaking project.