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Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/20/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
In the early days of the smart city movement, most cities built applications one at a time, typically for just one department. More and more, however, cities are realizing they don’t want to learn a separate tool for every separate application. Nor...
Article - 01/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
It's bad enough that cities typically struggle with limited budgets and stretched resources to maintain the services and systems their residents need and expect, but the task is even harder against the background of a sluggish global economy.Roland...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Citizen engagement
The acceleration of urban growth is undeniable. Cities experience it now and forecasts say there's much more to come. The UN expects that by 2050 the world's urban population will be as large as the total population of the world was in 2002. And the...
Article - 10/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
The Erode City Corporation (ECC) completed its zonal-level meetings for availing ideas, suggestions, and feedback for preparing the Smart City proposal. As a next step these views will be consolidated before formulation of the final city plan....
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
The Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, and the Consumer Protection Council of Tamil Nadu in Tiruchirappalli (Tiruchi) organised a seminar – 'Smart City – Tiruchi' to seek suggestions and feedback from various walks in its pursuit...
Article - 10/05/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Citizen engagement
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has taken the initiative to launch a new-age citizen centric solution service called 'BMC Sampark'. The service reinforces and supports the 'Swachh Bhubaneswar Abhiyan'. The service allows citizens to register...
Article - 09/08/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Kamikatsu, a small village in the mountains of Shikoku Island in south-west Japan, aims at being the country's first 'Zero Waste' community by 2020. And going by the pace of implementation so far, it seems that the Japanese' town is very much on the...
Article - 09/07/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Examples and case studies
Though the 'Smart Cities' initiatives around the globe are great case studies, each city has unique characteristics and problems and should focus on finding contextual local solutions.A Business Insider report quoted Managing Director of CISCO...
Article - 09/03/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Smart City Examples, Smart City Tools
As technology rapidly improves, the services that citizens need and expect from their cities also grows. But even cities that use technology to make incremental improvements may soon be left behind -– if they haven’t been already. A new report finds...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Lots of people have vivid imaginations. Council Advisor IEEE hopes to turn that creativity into the next big ideas for smart cities.IEEE has launched the Smart City Challenge, an interactive online game that allows the public to submit their...
Article - 10/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Smart City Tools
Do residents think their city is as smart as city officials do? A new survey finds the answer is probably not.In fact, few people have even heard of the term “smart cities.” That's according to Roberta Gamble of Frost & Sullivan, writing for...
Article - 09/24/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Research, publications and web sites
Q&A with Laura Ipsen, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public SectorLaura Ipsen leads a team of nearly 2,000 sales and marketing professionals operating in more than 100 countries to serve government, education and public healthcare...
Article - 11/13/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
By Jesse Berst Greenfields projects are vitally important to the success of the smart cities movement. Because they have fewer constraints, because they are not hampered by the additional expense of retrofitting, they become the proving ground for...
Article - 08/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
In a rambling post from the public policy publication TheInformationDaily.com, two co-authors from the Forum for the Future meander through several topics before getting to a point that may sound trite at first, but actually is quite important.James...
Article - 07/16/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
By Jesse BerstThe smart cities market took a major step towards mainstream status with an announcement this morning from Smart Cities Council Lead Partner Microsoft. The company is launching a global initiative labeled "CityNext." The company-wide...
Article - 07/09/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
Many smart city observers believe older cities will be left behind. Green-field cities, like those being built from scratch in China, will have a much easier time, they say, since new cities don't have to retrofit legacy infrastructure.In some cases...
Article - 07/01/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership