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By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 16th of 17 themes defined in the standard: wastewater collection and treatment. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (...
Article - 11/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Water and wastewater, Policy frameworks and tools
A new batch of city rankings are out, including the annual Fast Company list of the world's smartest cities that Council Advisor Boyd Cohen compiles. There's also the latest Digital Cities Survey from the Center for Digital Government; this year's...
Article - 11/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
A new report, Infrastructure Crisis, Sustainable Solutions: Rethinking Our Infrastructure Investment Strategies, says it’s not just our infrastructure that’s getting old. A significant number of the people who know how to fix our roads, electric...
Article - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater
A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examining the strategy and execution of 16 leading smart city suppliers identifies Council Lead Partners Cisco and IBM as the leaders in the smart cities technology market.The researchers analyzed...
Article - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Research, publications and web sites
Of all the unemployed people in Africa, if you were to choose one at random, odds are that person would be under the age of 25. And even having a college degree doesn’t change those odds much.For young adults in Africa, the problem is that few...
Article - 11/21/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
The Smart Cities Council was well represented at the 2014 Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona as you can read here. Here are a few quick snapshots from the event.Top photo: Left to right, Nino Rubeiro of Citibrain, Christophe Merer...
Article - 11/20/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 smart city standard with a look at the 15th of 17 themes defined in the standard -- urban planning indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy frameworks and tools
A new bicycle path opened this month in Holland that not only gives bicyclists a safe place to ride, it also generates power for neighboring homes.It’s one of the most serious experiments yet to see if roads can be a source of energy, something that...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation
As city leaders, academics and leading smart cities practitioners from around the world gather for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Smart Cities Council members are sharing their expertise and thought leadership on a host...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
One of the challenges facing many cities seeking to share the mountains of data they collect between departments, other government agencies and/or with private developers is that their data isn't available in an accessible form that that can be...
Article - 11/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Data management, Interoperability, Smart City Tools
Stroll through Caishikou in downtown Beijing and you’ll see a thriving commercial district with busy streets and a museum. But you won’t see the substation that powers it all.Smart cities attract businesses and residents, but large power substations...
Article - 11/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Efforts to stretch New York City’s power supply will get a boost from a new platform that features technology from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid.Con Edison, which serves 3.3 million electricity customers, is using Alstom’s Demand Response...
Article - 11/14/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
A book released this fall by education advocate Tom Vander Ark spells out why learning is essential to the health of cities. Smart Cities That Work for Everyone: 7 Keys to Education & Employment discusses the importance learning has on the...
Article - 11/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services
Understanding the location and place needs of a smart city is the focus of the inaugural Location Powers: Smart Cities Summit taking place Dec. 2 in Tokyo, Japan. The event is hosted by the Open Geospatial Consortium, a Council Advisor whose members...
Article - 11/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Tanzania has one of the highest rates of heart-related infant mortality in the world, but the country could dramatically reduce the number of deaths, even if it can’t get more medical specialists to work there.Council Lead Partner Cisco says the...
Article - 11/12/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Connectivity
Rates at for some stormwater utilities are the same today as they were 10 years ago. And a new report from Council Associate Partner Black & Veatch finds utilities may be paying an increasing cost for those steady rates.The 2014 Stormwater...
Article - 11/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Research, publications and web sites
Broadband Internet isn’t something that’s just nice to have anymore. A study finds it can have dramatic impacts on people’s ability to use public transit, access health care and even find a job.That’s prompting cities to step up their efforts to...
Article - 11/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Key findings from the survey of city leaders in North America conducted by Council Lead Partner Cisco and the Smart Cities Council were featured on the Product Design & Development website. Below is a brief excerpt; you can see the complete...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The survey of North American city leaders conducted by Council Lead Partner Cisco and the Smart Cities Council was highlighted at TopTechNews.com. Below is a brief excerpt; you can read the full story here.Cisco and the Smart Cities Council released...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
In many parts of the world, customers can prepay their electricity bills just as they can prepay cell phone minutes. In North America, however, prepay is relatively rare. Many regulators and consumer advocates have always feared that utilities would...
Article - 11/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Instrumentation and control