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How two cities are increasing transparency

Editor's Blog16 Feb 2024

How San Antonio and Barcelona are using accessible and user-friendly data dashboards and portals to foster more openness and transparency in governance.

San Antonio launches dashboards to increase transparency

Citizen engagement12 Feb 2024

The City is launching a set of dashboards focused on streets, drainage, parks and more to keep residents informed about public works-managed projects.

Three liveable city projects in the spotlight

Inclusivity04 Jul 2023

Luke Antoniou explores how citizen engagement and inclusivity is shaping smarter, more sustainable cities and highlights the world’s most liveable city.

San Antonio launches community-driven smart city roadmap

Policymaking28 Jun 2023

Roadmap provides a vision for the use of technology to improve public services and quality of life, and position the Texan city to compete for federal funding.

Via Metropolitan to offer transit tickets through Uber app

Mobility-as-a-Service09 May 2023

By making mobile ticketing available in more applications, Via Transit is ensuring its customers have flexible fare payment options for trips on any service.

Water monitoring trial programme for drought-stricken Texas cities

Water01 Aug 2022

Olea’s platform focuses on the health of large commercial and industrial water meters, which can lose accuracy by more than 10 per cent per year under normal conditions.

Bird launches integration with local bikeshare providers

News24 Sep 2021

It forms part of its Smart Bikeshare programme, which aims to meet the multimodal mobility needs of cities without monopolising transportation options or competing with local businesses.

San Antonio transit agency launches improved mobile ticketing solution

News25 Aug 2021

Riders will be able to purchase mobile fares anytime, anywhere, using either the new goMobile+ app or Transit app, which combines real-time trip-planning with payment.

San Antonio opens call for entries to its residency and city civic challenge

News07 May 2021

The four main challenges are around sustaining business during construction, carbon footprint for energy retrofits, power outage emergency communication, and hand sanitiser refill.

Smart cities are only as good as their connectivity

Opinions10 Aug 2020

The promise of smart cities needs a strong network to back it up, writes Jamie Hayes, Mobile Network Operators Director, BT Wholesale.

50 major US cities double their solar capacity

News08 Jun 2020

The analysts behind the seventh Shining Cities 2020 report said each year the study has revealed that more local leaders are pursuing solar projects and smart local policies.

San Antonio forms 'R&D League' for data-driven decisions

News03 Feb 2020

The collaborative research and development programme aims to help the city work in a more agile way and make data-driven decisions.

Calgary ranked best city for driving

News15 Nov 2019

Low congestion and affordability are among the factors that put the Canadian city top of Mister Auto’s ranking while Mumbai was named the worst city for driving across the globe.

LA shines brightest in US solar ranking for the second year

News10 Apr 2019

Environment America Research & Policy Centre’s annual report also reveals that solar power has doubled in most major cities over the past six years.

Bloomberg completes climate action line-up

News16 Jan 2019

Albuquerque, Austin, Denver, Orlando and San Antonio are named as the final cities in the American Cities Climate Challenge

Envisioning smart cities

News03 Feb 2017

Envision America 2017 has announced this year’s participants in its Smart City initiative. So who is taking part?

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