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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Dr Chen-yu Lee, director of Taipei Smart City Project Management Office, explains why climate action can’t exist in a silo and must cut across all city services.
We assess the current trends in air quality monitoring and improvement, identifying projects, policies and technologies that are aiding cities in creating more liveable and breathable urban environments.
This SmartCitiesWorld panel discussion is now available OnDemand and brings cities together for bilateral learnings on the challenges and potential solutions to sustainability by utilising intelligent transport systems (ITS). The CSO of the City of Vilnius - European Green Capital 2025 are among the speakers.
The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.
The Urban Exchange welcomes Miami-Dade County’s Galen Treuer and Howden’s Peter Adams to explore the challenges facing residents and insurers in the face of climate events.
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How can cities and businesses plan for sustainability and resilience in the face of mass urbanisation, climate change and Covid-19? Is technology and innovation the answer?
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.
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.
The South Korean capital believes the analysis of urban patterns forms the bedrock of smart infrastructure and services. SmartCitiesWorld explores how it has been using data more intelligently since 2011.
Cathalijne Dortmans, Deputy Mayor, City of Helmond, said: “Brainport Smart District is a living lab of technological innovation. It’s also a district for social innovation."
The development in Mexico is Stefano Boeri’s most ambitious forest city yet, covering a 557-hectare site. Largely food self-sufficient and powered by solar panels, it aims to be a "pioneer" for smart cities.
Platform models can help cities move from being ‘fractionally smart’ to overall intelligent. Learn from the progress of cities such as Amsterdam, Duisburg and Cagliari.
The panel aims to provide residents with access to education and training on AI, enabling local communities to influence the development of AI initiatives.
Smart city is the framework based on Information and Communication technologies that enable the development of sustainable practices to address the urbanisation challenges. Leveraging the technology is one of the foremost pillars of ‘smart cities’ in order to increase efficiencies and improve the quality of resident’s life and the city’s services.
The project at Leighton Buzzard station aims to show how untapped footfall energy at transport hubs represents a real opportunity to provide sustainable energy sources.
The project follows an agreement between Apollo International and Riyadh-based House of Invention to deploy smart poles and infrastructure across the Kingdom.
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