Special Reports

Smart Cities World’s Road to Liveable Cities event brought together technology and transport experts, as well as start-ups, to discuss and envision the shape of future mobility.

Last year, Greece’s capital city, Athens, hired its first Chief Digital Officer – Konstantinos Champidis talks to Smart Cities World about his first 18 months in the job.

The business model is based on selling ad space and data. End users go free.

Mike Barlow and Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton look at what smart cities must learn from the past if they are to deliver their promise.

We explore how cities are trying to tackle the major challenge of congestion.

The City of Madrid is committed to citizen participation and enabling it at scale. Sarah Wray talks to Miguel Arana Catania, Madrid’s Director of Citizen Participation.

Mike Barlow and Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton tell the story of Estonia and its experiment in digital government that’s paying off.

Martin Lim, COO and co-founder of Electrify, highlights how decentralised energy can contribute to smarter cities.

Kansas City’s smart sewers could save over $1 billion.

New initiatives around city data-sharing look way beyond open data.