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OnDemand Panel Debate: Clearing the air: strategies for enhancing urban air quality

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Understanding Microsoft’s approach to AI-powered local government

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How Ukraine developed its AI assistant – and claimed a world record

The Diia.AI app represents a new way for governments to interact with communities and aims to bring fast, intuitive public services even closer to people.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dortmund

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In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, Graeme Neill speaks to Alexander Zschaler, regional sales director at Cloudera Germany.

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Introducing AI CityXchange: focusing on the real work of AI in cities

SmartCitiesWorld’s senior editor Luke Antoniou on the launch of the new AI CityXchange, at a time where dialogue and knowledge sharing is critical between cities and their partners to use AI technology for public good.

Modernising public services and the $9.8 trillion case for govtech

Government technology is entering a new era of modernisation, fostering innovations that are enabling a digital and sustainable future, says Capgemini’s Marc Reinhardt.

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

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Building AI-ready cities: from pilots to public trust

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The latest planning and redevelopment on smart city projects and initiatives across the world.

New standard speeds up local energy planning in UK

New standard speeds up local energy planning in UK

Planning and redevelopment11 Feb 2026

The standardised Local Authority Common Ask builds on previous cross-sector collaboration and enables local authorities to share granular spatial forecasts.

Vancouver reaffirms commitment to building healthy, inclusive city

Vancouver reaffirms commitment to building healthy, inclusive city

News04 Feb 2026

Renewed framework will guide the City’s work in embedding health and social sustainability across planning, programmes, services and infrastructure delivery.

State of UK council climate action revealed in new report

State of UK council climate action revealed in new report

Climate action05 Nov 2025

Report looks at overall trends of UK councils’ climate action giving comprehensive oversight of where progress has been made and where action is still lacking.

Phoenix launches latest version of performance dashboard

Phoenix launches latest version of performance dashboard

Transparency07 Mar 2025

The dashboard was created to be dynamic and evolving to reflect changes in operations and priorities over time across the city, as well as community input.

OnDemand Panel Debate (11 Dec): Going behind the scenes of Dallas’ smart city initiatives

OnDemand Panel Debate (11 Dec): Going behind the scenes of Dallas’ smart city initiatives

Webinars10 Dec 2023

SmartCitiesWorld gets up close and personal with the City of Dallas and its innovative smart city strategies. Panellist from City of Dallas, National League of Cities and Ubicquia. Watch OnDemand

Toronto launches housing data hub to improve transparency

Toronto launches housing data hub to improve transparency

Residential buildings22 Mar 2023

It will show the City’s approach to enabling housing production to achieve or exceed the provincial housing target of 285,000 new homes in the next 10 years.

How Porto is making climate action the responsibility of all

How Porto is making climate action the responsibility of all

Climate action06 Jan 2023

A deep dive into environmental sustainability with Filipe Araújo, Vice-Mayor and City Councillor for Environment, Climate, Innovation and Digital Transition for the City of Porto

Rating recognises buildings that look after their occupants’ wellbeing

Rating recognises buildings that look after their occupants’ wellbeing

Health and social care12 Apr 2022

The Well Performance Rating aims to provide a roadmap for organisations to demonstrate excellence in occupant experience and building performance across key indoor environmental quality indicators.

Bloomberg partners with selected cities to build back better

Bloomberg partners with selected cities to build back better

News06 Jul 2021

Three-year grants will fund innovation teams, or “i-teams,” to help mayors leverage data and digital technologies to enhance public services and create new value for communities.

Bloomberg names 50 finalist cities for 2021 Global Mayors’ Challenge

Bloomberg names 50 finalist cities for 2021 Global Mayors’ Challenge

News16 Jun 2021

The cities chosen are considered to have come up with the boldest urban innovations emerging from the pandemic with the challenge aiming to spread the most promising ideas.

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Municipalities invited to apply for fully funded pilots

Pilot projects in the latest Leading Cities’ AcceliGOV programme enable cities to launch proven climate and infrastructure solutions in approximately 90 days.

New standard speeds up local energy planning in UK

The standardised Local Authority Common Ask builds on previous cross-sector collaboration and enables local authorities to share granular spatial forecasts.

Digital Dubai launches senior citizens track

Digital Dubai and the Community Development Authority are enhancing digital quality of life for seniors as part of the Digital Balance Initiative for Families.

Chattanooga secures grant for quantum workforce development

The new EPB programme is designed to build a local quantum-ready workforce and support new, local job creation from the rapidly emerging quantum industry.

Texas DoT extends partnership for next-gen traffic insights

Building on a 15-year collaboration, this new contract will aim to help make travel across Texas safer, smarter, and more efficient for all road users.

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How cities can own their data and their future with sovereign AI

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Tune into the SmartCitiesWorld podcast to understand the world of sovereign AI for cities, featuring PNY Technologies’ Youssef Nadiri as our expert guest.

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Urban Exchange Podcast Episode 32 – Flood and energy resilience in Quezon City

Urban Exchange Podcast

Tune in for the latest Urban Exchange where we get a first-hand account of city resilience measures from Quezon City following unexpected extreme rainfall.

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Building AI-ready cities: from pilots to public trust

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From data foundations and ethical guardrails to workforce skills and citizen trust, the challenge is no longer whether to use AI in cities – but how to embed it in ways that are practical, human-centred, and built to last.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Atlanta

Find out more about Atlanta’s smart city strategy, focused around equitability and inclusion.

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SmartCitiesWorld City Profile – Dortmund

In this edition, we focus on Dortmund in western Germany. With around 600,000 inhabitants, Dortmund is the eighth-largest city in Germany and the gateway to the Rhine-Ruhr region in the heart of Europe.