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The tool aims to reduce the time it takes to manually look for available homes that are affordable and accessible.

Four companies have been selected to develop and hopefully commercialise their technology to tackle this growing challenge.

Portland recently held a working session with business representatives and civil rights groups to discuss the proposals.

Planet Smart City is making waves, with big investment and large-scale housing developments. SmartCitiesWorld finds out more.

More than 125 entrants were whittled down to the eight finalists in the second round of mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s Civic Innovation Challenge.

It is comprised of member cities and experts from the former 100 Resilient Cities programme and supports a community of resilience practitioners in 98 cities and 40 countries.

AVEVA’s W. Jarrett Campbell outlines asset performance solutions utilities can implement today to enable proactive and predictive maintenance which reduces costs and disruption.

Government and private sector companies are implementing 24 blockchain use cases across eight industry sectors including health, transportation and education.

A simple way to control personal data could foster greater trust around smart city initiatives and open up a discussion around what citizens really find valuable – an extension of participatory budgeting, you could say, giving people a say in how they ‘spend’ their data.

New research warns that in extreme cases, a compromised network could mask physical attacks against infrastructure or cause industrial equipment containing volatile substances to break, combust or even explode.