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Smart City Expo: think digital, think green, think inclusion

The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.

How the holistic approach is central to the Covid-19 recovery

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Lauren Sorkin, acting executive director of the Global Resilient Cities Network, on how cities can rebuild post Covid-19.

The future of smart city technologySponsored by Huawei

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

Smart Cities: the power of the ecosystem

For smart cities to succeed, organisational silos must give way to a problem-solving and adaptive network of partners, believes Massimiliano Claps, team leader for the Future Cities Business at SAP

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UK local authorities work together to reduce carbon footprints

News13 Jul 2021

Developed with the Anthesis Group, the initiative is designed as a public sector alternative to traditional carbon offsetting and aims to help the authorities benefit from local insetting investment choices.

Auckland named most liveable city in the world

News10 Jun 2021

The New Zealand city ranks top in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Liveability index which explores the impact of the pandemic and assesses cities in five areas.

Open source earthquake detection technology used in global initiative

Open data26 May 2021

Grillo’s sensors, which are based on low-cost, open source hardware designs, are being used as part of a Clinton Global Initiative earthquake early warning project in Puerto Rico.

Seoul connects city with its Pedestrian Forest Path

News11 May 2021

Seoul Metropolitan Government has been promoting pedestrian-centred road reform policies by reducing roads for cars while expanding pedestrian-only paths and green traffic spaces.

Managing the smart city generation gap

Career Building05 May 2021

Recognising that one size doesn’t fit all and knowing how to take advantage of the benefits of cross-generational teams, are critical to a healthy and productive workplace.

Cybersecurity: a smart city imperative

Special Reports30 Apr 2021

Attacks on state and local governments went up dramatically in the pandemic as cybercriminals sought to take advantage of the crisis but have city leaders learned the lessons?

City of Calgary partners with Waze for data-sharing programme

News28 Apr 2021

The Waze for Cities Data programme will give Calgary’s traffic management centre an ‘unprecedented’ look at real-time road activity to make better-informed planning decisions.

Super-connected innovation hub announced in New Jersey

Commercial buildings20 Apr 2021

Intended to bridge disciplines, institutions and people, Cove JC is a super-connected live-work-play ‘supercluster’ just minutes from Manhattan in the heart of the East Coast life sciences/tech corridor.

Think Tank: When the sea swallows your cities

Opinions19 Apr 2021

In the latest of our opinion pieces from members of our Advisory Board, a grim warning is issued about the risk of flooding on coastal communities.

My Moscow app upgrade recruits more than 100,000 new users

News26 Mar 2021

The more user-friendly app has been designed to ensure citizens receive relevant and timely information and among the most popular services are the news and payments section.

Austin uses virtual reality to train first responders

News17 Mar 2021

The City of Austin has partnered with local start-up Augmented Training Systems to develop programmes that allow skills to be quickly refreshed, without needing the physical equipment or set-up.

How to make great hires in the smart city sector

News01 Feb 2021

The need to combine the two skillsets of digital technologies and urban infrastructure means the smart city talent pool is limited. Good hires require extensive search and the direct approach

Victoria Park Council tackles parking issues with virtual solution

News17 Dec 2020

The Australian town, which is home to the Optimus Stadium, is implementing Smarter City Solutions’ vPermit to improve parking access and modernise the council’s parking management system.

Open Mobility Foundation launched to help create new open data standards for the kerb

Regulation10 Dec 2020

Digitising the kerb opens the door for more dynamic regulations and new approaches to kerb-usage fees that could enable more goal-driven management strategies.

Marie Hélène Mansard, business development director, Asia-Pacific, Axis Communications

Talent Interviews08 Dec 2020

Marie Hélène Mansard explains how Covid-19 has spawned a range of new applications for video surveillance systems and why 5G experimentation means it’s a good time to be a smart city manager in Asia.

Landmark smart building to be built on site of former Hong Kong airport

News27 Nov 2020

Facilities include Hong Kong’s first ever automatic bicycle parking bay to encourage green mobility, solar radiation protection, sky farming and automated smart waste sorting and storage.

"Battery box" renewable energy project announced for the Netherlands

News03 Nov 2020

The Engie project uses Kiwi Power’s bespoke hardware and virtual power plant software to provide grid flexibility to the system operator TenneT.

StreetLight Data and Ford Mobility team for data-driven safety solutions

Data marketplace and monetisation15 Oct 2020

A bundled offering will combine datasets and machine learning to identify how cities can reduce serious and fatal crashes as well as inform future safety strategies.

Boston awarded grant to fund strategic heat resilience planning study

News13 Oct 2020

It will form a critical component of the Climate Ready Boston initiative, which aims to develop resilient solutions to prepare the city for the effects of climate change.

Icelandic airport deploys AI-powered passenger forecasting solution

Air Travel07 Jul 2020

Keflavík Airport has become the first to adopt Veovo’s passenger management solution, designed to prevent airport crowding, improve capacity-planning and boost efficiency.

US cities selected for Digital Kerb Challenge

News01 Jul 2020

Aspen, Nashville, Omaha, and West Palm Beach will team with kerb management company Coord on “smart zone” programmes tailored to their individual mobility challenges.

Liverpool announces £450,000 project to help reimagine outdoor spaces

News27 May 2020

The fund will be used to help local independent businesses redesign outdoor spaces and turn them into seating areas to make up for the internal space they are losing as a result of social distancing.

How the holistic approach is central to the Covid-19 recovery

Special Reports21 May 2020

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Lauren Sorkin, acting executive director of the Global Resilient Cities Network, on how cities can rebuild post Covid-19.

Getting from A to B and the conferences of the future

Editor's Blog18 May 2020

The pandemic is changing where we go and how we get there and while none of us will mourn congestion, there’s much to miss when it comes to travelling to live events.

Rethinking Christmas, transforming events and a new editor

Editor's Blog16 May 2020

Smart city technology is already showing how key it is to tackling the challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the sector as a whole will be central to rebuilding and recovery.

Smart city AI software revenue set to increase 700% by 2025

News03 Apr 2020

Video surveillance is a popular area of AI deployment but the coronavirus pandemic could also see more use of the technology to better co-ordinate public health responses.

UrbanLeague network launched to help city officials collaborate on coronavirus

News23 Mar 2020

The network from UrbanLeap is a place for city officials to share best practices and insights. It also tracks upcoming webinars and hosts resources.

Zencity tracks US residents’ coronavirus concerns

Health and social care16 Mar 2020

The report aims to help city leaders shape policies and provide accurate, timely information to their communities on the unfolding public health crisis.

From wargames to insurance: Cities urged to revisit resilience strategies amid ransomware “new reality”

News11 Mar 2020

A new report from Deloitte addresses whether to pay ransom, cyber-insurance, skills and more.

Digital transformation can improve your City Resilience IndexSponsored by AVEVA

Opinions10 Mar 2020

AVEVA’s W. Jarrett Campbell shares five examples where cities have improved their sustainability and resilience, or maintained current levels of resilience while lowering costs.

Women in Mobility Group launches in the UK

News09 Mar 2020

SmartCitiesWorld talks to the founders of the Women in Mobility Group’s London network about why the initiative is necessary and how it plans to boost diversity in the UK transport sector.

Sunderland seeks partner to become a ‘neutral host’ 5G city

News03 Mar 2020

The move aims to boost connectivity across the city and give citizens and businesses more choice.

Vienna pilots virtual ‘culture token’ to reward greener travel

News20 Feb 2020

The app uses motion-tracking to measure distances covered using green modes of transport and calculates the CO2 savings compared to a car trip.

105 cities make CDP’s climate action ‘A List’

News18 Feb 2020

Analysis suggested that, on average, cities on the A List are taking over three times as many climate actions as non-A List cities.

Barcelona rallies to mitigate economic impact of MWC cancellation

News17 Feb 2020

MWC was cancelled for the first time in its 33-year history last week when organiser GSMA said it had become “impossible” for the show to go ahead in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

Virus outbreak ‘could reshape China’s smart city vision’

News24 Jan 2020

The outbreak could shift China’s smart city vision away from political surveillance and towards health, Robyn Mak, a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, has said.

Kingston kicks off IoT pilot with smart snow plough service

News23 Jan 2020

An online map features selected ploughs on main roads, with different colours indicating when a road was last ploughed.

Massive Attack works with Liverpool for 2020 ‘super low carbon’ gig

News03 Dec 2019

Amazon finalists highlight city cloud innovation

News26 Nov 2019

Initiatives up for awards include the use of data to tackle the opioid crisis and homelessness, an open-data-powered Alexa service and an earthquake warning app.

City Lights: Lea Eriksen, CIO, City of Long Beach

City Lights25 Nov 2019

SmartCitiesWorld talks to Long Beach’s CIO, Lea Eriksen.

Moscow launches free knowledge base to drive 5G innovation

News22 Nov 2019

The resource will share 5G use cases from around the world as well as news, research and more.

Removing the roadblocks to smart city ROI

Opinions11 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.

Portland’s procurement aims to minimise sensor waste

News07 Nov 2019

IoT sensors are deployed in many smart city projects but recycling the small electronics used in them is difficult. Portland wants to promote sustainable procurement and re-usability.

Nagoya to install smart city digital panels

News04 Oct 2019

Street furniture from MCDecaux will provide citizens in the Japanese city with a range of services including free wi-fi hotspots and emergency message alerts.

Smart technologies trigger virtuous circle of economic growth in cities

News01 Oct 2019

By using these technologies to transform and interconnect their urban ecosystem, government leaders aim to deliver a myriad of benefits to their stakeholders.

Greenwich’s smart city benchmarking toolkit for adaptability and resilience

Opinions01 Oct 2019

Allan Mayo, Smart City Strategist, DG Cities, outlines how DG Cities is using an evidence-based tool to ensure its smart city strategy has resilience and adaptability at the core. Other cities could replicate the methodology.

London ranked top city for Generation Z

News04 Sep 2019

The UK capital stood out from other cities in areas such as social entrepreneurship, co-working spaces, education, artificial intelligence and concerts.

Blockchain e-voting: Backed by US candidate, hacked in Moscow

Special Reports30 Aug 2019

Blockchain-enabled voting: revolutionary for democracy or a recipe for disaster?

Lisbon develops mobility catalogue to make third-party apps more accurate

Special Reports07 Aug 2019

The City of Lisbon is developing a new architecture and the first tools to improve the accuracy of journey-planning apps.

More cities declare climate emergencies: Will it spur real change?

Special Reports15 Jul 2019

Experts praise cities for highlighting the scale of the climate crisis but urge them to follow up with concrete actions.

London Mayor warns of climate change ‘delayers’ threat

News03 Jul 2019

Sadiq Khan warns that climate change delayers, not deniers, are today’s biggest obstacle to meaningfully reducing carbon emissions.

Florida city pays almost $500,000 in ransom, following IT hack

News03 Jul 2019

Lake City is the second city in weeks to pay out following a ransomware attack.

Miami launches a model for urban resilience

News31 May 2019

Miami-Dade County, City of Miami and City of Miami Beach have launched the Resilient305 Strategy to help prepare for and protect the region from future shocks and stresses.

Legible Cities: The humanistic smart city model

Opinions01 May 2019

Eli Kuslansky explores the concept and benefits of ’Legible Cities’ as well as a route to achieving them.

How a civic app has helped Athens to become more citizen-centric

News12 Apr 2019

Within five months of introducing the Novoville platform, the Greek capital has resolved more than 22,000 citizen requests and increased efficiency by a quarter.

Atlanta to host first US edition of Smart City Expo

News29 Mar 2019

The event organisers hope to “redefine what it means to be a smart city”.

City Lights: Jane Gilbert, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Miami

City Lights27 Feb 2019

Jane Gilbert, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Miami, explains what the role entails and why more cities are hiring for this position.

Belfast launches project to let citizens ‘talk’ to historic attractions

News11 Feb 2019

The collaborative project aims to create a ‘playable city experience’ for tourists and locals.

Atlanta puts smart city tech to the test for Super Bowl

Special Reports03 Feb 2019

At the weekend, the City Of Atlanta will host this year’s Super Bowl. Smart technology will play an important role in managing such a huge event and its impact on the city.

Report highlights cities’ public engagement gap

News22 Jan 2019

The research canvassed the views of over 10,000 people across 10 global cities on how they feel about their city’s infrastructure.

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