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NOTE: This article was written before the inauguration and will be updated with practical advice on how to get 'ready' for Biden Administration smart city and infrastructure grants and opportunities. Subscribe to get updates (see top right...
Article - 01/04/2021
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Begin Rating ProcessVote for the cities you would like to see lead Readiness Cohorts. See more information about each city's projects below.Smart Cities Council Readiness ChallengeOur goal is to invite cities to provide information about their...
Article - 11/18/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Smart Cities Council Partners have the unique opportunity to engage with multiple cities at the same time working together using the Council's Smart Cities Activator Platform. Here is an example of how the process works. You can download the PDF and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
About half the cities I talk to say they are the next Silicon Valley for their country or region. They love branding their city as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurialism with no clear understanding of what Silicon Valley had to do to become...
Article - 09/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Led by Carlos Rivero, the CDO for the Commonwealth of Virginia (USA), this panel at Smart Cities Week Global 2020 will be exploring how cities around the world are implementing open data initiatives.Register to attend Smart Cities Week here (free.)...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
In 2015, Stephen Adler, the Chief Information Strategist for IBM stated that IBM’s view about ‘smart cities’ was that a smart city was ‘self-aware.’ Peter Hirshberg, the Chairman of the City Innovate Foundation stated probably more comprehensively...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN
Urban flooding is the most common disaster in the United StatesFlooding is the most common natural disaster in the United States. As reported by the University of Maryland and Texas A&M (Galveston) in 2018, in its report titled ‘The Growing...
Article - 09/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Apply to become a Readiness Cohort Leader for the 2nd Quarter of 2021 HEREThe Application is easy, taking about an hour. Tell us your problem, a project that will solve it and give us a letter from a senior city leader about your commitment....
Article - 08/20/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Subscribe here.The Smart Cities Council is one of the world’s leading voices on the future of cities. For more than 8 years we have been supporting cities around the world in their pursuit to embrace technology and data as a force for good....
Article - 07/13/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online
With Cities Helping Cities, We Change the World!The Smart Cities Council is launching its 2021 Global Readiness Challenge. The 2021 Readiness Challenge’s theme is ‘cities helping cities.’The Global Readiness Challenge is a rolling-process with new...
Article - 07/12/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Category: Information Center
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to fundamentally shape the way that the public sector operates and does business in all industries. As cities and other public agencies are responding to the ongoing pandemic, GovWin’s team of state and local...
Article - 07/07/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Vote for Virginia’s FAACT at StateScoop!Virginia, a 2018 Readiness Challenge winner, has had multiple government leaders committed to making the Commonwealth ‘smart.’ Carlos Rivero, the current Chief Data Officer is the most recent and his office’s...
Article - 06/27/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As a Readiness Challenge Winner, Miami did the work yesterday to be ready for the crisis todayIn recent months, Miami, like many other cities, has been concentrating on COVID-19 pandemic-related needs—establishing small business and resident...
Article - 06/25/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Virtual training in a post-COVID 19 worldCOVID-19 is forcing cities and utilities to consider how they can expedite their digital transformation while still operating. A perfect storm of operational risks are on the horizon for cities and utilities...
Article - 06/23/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to increasingly affect cities across the U.S. earlier this year, a number found they needed to quickly determine a way to provide citizens with access to key city services—and, at the same time, enable municipal...
Article - 06/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to fundamentally shape the way that the public sector operates and does business. As cities and other public agencies are responding to the ongoing pandemic, GovWin’s team of state and local market analysts...
Article - 05/26/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Philadelphia has used the ‘smart city journey’ to pro-actively solve city-wide issues with agility and innovation. The smart city journey has helped COVID-19 responsiveness.Trust and stakeholder engagementEvidence has shown that governments that...
Article - 05/11/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to have a profound influence on public life, it has likewise made a major impact on how companies do business with the government. Analysis and research on the government’s continuing response are available...
Article - 05/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
All Smart Cities Activator Users agree to this Smart Cities Activator End User License ('EULA.')Thank you for selecting Smart Cities Activator as provided by Smart Cities Council Inc. (referred to as "SCC", "we", "our", or "us"). SCC is a...
Article - 04/27/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Regarding Smart Cities Council efforts during COVID-19 crisis.To all our partners that seek to make cities livable, workable and sustainable –We have delayed publishing this letter as we have been busy working with cities and our partners during...
Article - 04/21/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America