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Pratap Padode, founder of the consulting firm ‘Smart Cities Council’ in India believes the selection of the cities said the selection process was most transparent and it was a credible exercise.Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu announced...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
Convergence wins the day for GVMCA special purpose vehicle (SPV) will be formed for overseeing the works to be taken up under the smart city project at a total cost of Rs.1,600 crore.The District Collector will be the chairman of the SPV and the...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India said, "The smart cities challenge has established the commitment of the government to the smart cities mission through the transparent and timely process that it has followed."Indian...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
The civic body is considering going ahead with certain projects such as barrier-free city for disabled and use of STP water in 2016-17.The projects were factored as part of smart city plan but did not get general body's approval. NCP, the dominant...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
The Central government has announced the list of the first cities which will be developed as Smart Cities. Belagavi (Karnataka), Udaipur, Guwahati, Chennai, Ludhiana and Bhopal, Surat, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Visakhapatnam,...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha on Friday interacted with the municipal commissioners of 97 cities included in the Smart Cities Mission and chief secretaries of all states and Union territories on the implementation of the programme and asked them to...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
The Indian government has made infrastructure development a priority, along with a plan to develop 100 Smart Cities in the country. With some serious policy decisions in the making, it appears India is moving thick and fast towards its goal. It’s...
Article - 01/31/2016
Active Region(s): India
It's an old bromide that electric power customers will always resist a rate hike. But as I travel around, I'm seeing pockets of change, especially in Europe and on both coasts of the United States. In Europe, cities already have aggressive carbon...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement
Smart cities are connected cities. That isn’t limited to connecting machines and sensors to the Internet. It means the residents are connected too.New York, one of the largest cities in the world, could not be more different from the Maldives, a...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity
The Smart Cities Council and three of its partners will participate in a U.S. trade delegation mission to India designed to help that country’s up-and-coming smart cities drive sustainable growth while improving the quality of life for their...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment
Cities have enough problems to deal with. Urban populations are growing at accelerating rates and that growth is putting pressure on all manner of city services, whether it's traffic congestion management, public safety and crime, healthcare and...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Responsibility areas, Analytics, Connectivity, Data management
The Thai government's focus on Phuket as its first smart city project aligns closely with its national policy of building a digital economy and a digital society.The national policy is ambitious. Not only does it address digital infrastructure and a...
Article - 01/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Data management
France seems to be taking great interest in India’s Smart Cities project. In November last year, France committed 2 billion euro to the project, with a special focus on Chandigarh, Nagpur and Puducherry. French Ambassador Francois Richier had...
Article - 01/25/2016
Active Region(s): India
Google has begun rolling out its free high speed public Wi-Fi in tandem with RailTel, which will eventually cover 100 of the busiest railway stations in India. The first such station to be covered by the Wi-Fi service is Mumbai Central. Such a...
Article - 01/25/2016
Active Region(s): India
With over a 100 smart cities in the offering, Dehradun happens to be one of the most debatable ones in question. Issues regarding the development of Dehradun as a smart city is posing some tough questions to the Uttarakand Chief Minister Harish...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): India
On a global basis, there’s no question that water is in short supply. According to United Nations estimates, one out of six people don’t have enough. And between swelling populations and prolonged droughts, supplies could get even shorter. The...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics
Contributed by Neptune Technology GroupIn the fourth year of a severe drought, without runoff, Mammoth Lakes, California, was in danger of running dry. But a switch from monthly to hourly data gave water planners valuable insight to stop water waste...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Water utilities historically don't like to move quickly. They're cautious. They prefer predictable, safe, incremental change. But at a time when demand for water is increasing at twice the rate of population growth, the old utility business model...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Contributed by Black & VeatchWhen you think California, visions of severe drought and strained water supplies are among the imagery of beaches, hundreds of miles of coastline, agriculture and sprawling urban areas.Water cutbacks have come in...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Contributed by ItronEvery day, an average of 10 to 30% of water pumped is lost or unaccounted for. Known as non-revenue water (NRW), this lost water costs a lot — not only in water, but in energy. In the U.S. alone, $13 billion in water is lost to...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics