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Move Mobility Re-Imagined

01 Jun 2021

MOVE is where we partner… where we learn… where we connect… where we create… where we do great business. MOVE presents outstanding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities for world-leading solutions providers. This is the place to do business with those companies redefining urban transport. Join us and 5000 of your peers in London this November as we shape the future of mobility.

Oil leaks

21 May 2021

Michael Lewis, the forensic chronicler of the 2008 financial crash in The Big Short (among many, many other incredible books), made a headspinning comment this week: "There are six times more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 30 working in computer systems."

Making haste with waste

14 May 2021

What’s important to you where you live? Waste is one area that is overlooked all too often, perhaps understandable given what it literally is, but you quickly realise when your city isn’t getting things right

UK National Cyber Security Centre publishes guidance on securing smart cities

12 May 2021

The new set of security principles aims to help UK authorities embrace technology while protecting their underlying infrastructure and critical public services.

Project to map West Midlands road network and infrastructure

11 May 2021

Work being undertaken by Chordant and Mobileye will support Transport for West Midlands’ long-term transport strategies with Coventry City Council.

Bus conductors

07 May 2021

You wait for stories on electric buses and then two come along at once. This week saw Gothenburg in Sweden and Charlotte in the United States announce plans to electrify their public transport networks.

Who lives in a house like this?

30 Apr 2021

There’s no place like home. And up until recently there has been no place that has built via a 3D printer. This week Elize Lutz and Harriet Dekkers got a digital key to their two bedroom bungalow in the Beatrix canal in the Eindhoven suburb of Bosrijk.

US town of Scarborough switches to cloud-based smart lighting controller

28 Apr 2021

StreetMan has allowed the town to identify various network and hardware issues and load balance the gateways to stabilise the network in the Maine town.

Moscow releases catalogue of smart city projects

26 Apr 2021

A joint project by ICT.Moscow and government, the resource features information on 68 smart city projects and public data sets on Moscow city infrastructure facilities.

Soft power

23 Apr 2021

Momentum is building. Earth Day this week saw world leaders falling over themselves to promise even further cuts to climate emissions in a sign that our leaders are taking this issue seriously.

Open & Agile Smart Cities partners with AWS to help cities share open data

19 Apr 2021

The cloud platform provider becomes the latest company to join the network’s Enterprise Partnership Programme to implement its interoperability mechanisms.

Reality bites

16 Apr 2021

Joe Biden has hit the ground running as US president, determined to make up for the somewhat eventful four years of his predecessor in office, rebuild international alliances and, critically, put climate at the heart of his presidency.

Ehang partners to build eco vertiport in Italy

09 Apr 2021

The autonomous aerial vehicle technology platform company is partnering with architecture firm Giancarlo Zema Design Group to help extend its air mobility solutions in Europe.

WEF to launch regional networks to support digital transformation of smaller cities

08 Apr 2021

The networks in Latin America and South Asia will share smart city knowledge and connect mid-size and small cities in the regions with pioneer cities.

The fourth generation of cities

01 Apr 2021

It’s a strange time. Of course, it has been a strange time for well over a year but optimism surrounding vaccination rates in countries like Israel, the UK and Chile is being sharply tempered by fresh and sudden lockdowns in Europe, vaccine scepticism in some countries and a deadly and passive approach to the virus in Brazil.

Mobile operator partners with City of Tucson to enable smart city applications

26 Mar 2021

Geoverse is the managed service partner for the city’s Citizens Broadband Radio Network being rolled out across the city to support a number of applications as well as facilitate remote learning.

(Almost) everything flows

26 Mar 2021

First off, I would like to apologise to you for being unable to find a smart cities angle on the hapless ship stuck in the Suez Canal. I am sure you all have been as horribly fascinated with the story as I have and I regret being unable to write about it.

Smart Cities Strategy Summit

24 Mar 2021

City leaders from around the world to exchange views on solutions for a post-pandemic world

Should we still keep it simple?

19 Mar 2021

Can simplicity be damaging? This is a question I have been chewing over for most of the week. Many careers, journalism included, reward keeping it simple. It doesn’t mean limited or unambitious - it means engaging and inclusive.

WEBINAR: Kyoto: the Japanese start-up community powering the future of smart cities.

17 Mar 2021

This webinar will give insight into what makes Keihanna Science City unique

The future of managers in the smart city sector

11 Mar 2021

The rising complexity in business as a result of digital transformations, globalisation, market volatility and the pandemic means managers must adopt agile ways of working.

From tiny acorns

05 Mar 2021

George Orwell had a point when he once wrote: “The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

Twin town

26 Feb 2021

Here in the UK, the phrase "build back better" is an inescapable mantra of the government as it looks to rebuild the economy following a successful vaccination programme (and take attention away from its chaotic handling of the pandemic itself).

Aiming for zero

19 Feb 2021

Net-zero climate targets are ambitious and essential. But they can be onerous to some. How best to manage reducing emissions alongside fiscal challenges, generating employment, managing traffic networks and the myriad of daily challenges you face with the uncertainty of Covid-19 thrown into the mix?

Special Reports

07 May 2021

Cities look to climate-friendly greenbacks to fund smart projects

With technology set to play a key part in the global recovery from the pandemic, we explore evolving funding methods that are helping cash-strapped cities get smart.