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Worrisome as the drought that's parched regions around the world is, a new global study from Council Associate Partner Veolia and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) finds rapidly deteriorating water quality will affect far more...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Research, publications and web sites
What began as a disaster for a Michigan tribal community quickly became a transformative moment as government officials of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi realized something important: they needed to embrace new technology rather than mistrust it....
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
As urban populations swell, as the number of singles increases -- and as city officials try to make their urban environments more sustainable, livable and economically successful -- down-sized housing provides a way to optimize use of increasingly...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Built environment, Energy
By Alan Snook, GRID20/20The global evolution of smart cities is gaining tremendous momentum. Leaders are actively embracing the concept of revitalizing cities from a perspective of sustainability. Times are changing and metro-dwellers are...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Here comes the NY Times with yet another security warning that — sadly — many cities will ignore.It makes a simple point: The more smart devices you have, the more vulnerable you are to hackers. Solutions are available, but only if cities spend the...
Article - 04/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
The Smart Cities Council has launched Smart Cities Council India (SCC India) with Pratap Padode, President of the Foundation of Infrastructure Research Studies Training ( FIRST ) and the SCC India founder. One of...
Article - 04/27/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts
The Smart Cities Council today will roll out a roadmap for smart cities at a Smart Cities Readiness Workshop in collaboration with the Dubai Real Estate Institute and Bechtel.Urbanisation is a key driver towards smarter cities. By 2050, over 70% of...
Article - 04/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The latest initiative from Bloomberg Philanthropies aims to help mid-size cities better use data and evidence to make government more effective and improve people's lives. U.S. cities with populations between 100,000 and 1 million people are invited...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Who's disrupting the U.S. electric market? S&C, Schneider, Bit Stew among themGreenTech Media's Grid Edge 20ranking of the 20 companies "shaping the power sector's imminent transformation" sites...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Ooredoo subsidiary Indosat -- a top telecommunications services provider in Indonesia -- has joined with Facebook to bring Internet connections to the many Indonesians who have never had them.The Facebook initiative -- Internet.org -- focuses on...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Some recent remarks from Gregory Curtin might grab the interest of companies developing smart cities solutions. Curtin is founder and CEO of SCC Associate Partner Civic Resource Group (CRG) International and recently spoke with CEOCFO Magazine. He...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Interoperability
California’s prolonged drought is drawing attention to San Francisco’s love for smart water meters. Even more so after the state’s governor recently mandated of a 25% cut in water use by the end of this year.Worried water officials from around the...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
At a very basic level, any city project is really an investment: projects are designed to provide more in benefits than they cost to produce. That’s now how investors are starting to see city projects and they’re increasingly willing to fund them...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
Council Advisor International Finance Corp. – a member of the World Bank Group – and Council Lead Partner MasterCard have agreed to develop a $250 million risk-sharing facility to enable emerging market banks to provide increased access to secure...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Connectivity
Please scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Bechtel wins Toronto subway extension project Bechtel has been awarded a contract to work with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to deliver the Spadina subway extension that will extend the...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Waste management, Computing resources, Connectivity
"It’s not just a scenario of a bored teenager, deciding to show off to his or her girlfriend. In many cases, these are organized gangs of thieves," said Caleb Barlow, IBM’s VP for mobile management and security, while describing the new face of...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Many cities have big ideas. Few cities have the big resources needed to make them reality. But rather than sitting back and watching the world pass them by, some are finding enterprising ways to take on projects that would seem to be beyond their...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
As the buzz around climate change grows louder, cities around the world are celebrating Earth Day. To refresh your memory, Earth Day made its debut on this date in 1970 and, some would say, launched the modern environmental movement.Yet, while eco-...
Article - 04/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Finance and procurement, Financing and procurement tools
A Digital Trends article on San Jose and smart city technologies an interview with Council Founder and Chairman Jesse Berst. You can read a couple of excerpts below and the full article here. “If we get the countryside just right and don’t get...
Article - 04/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
A National Geographic series on smart cities will showcase San Diego in an hour-long documentary scheduled to start airing on the National Geographic Channel in 60 countries beginning April 25. A Times of San Diego report says the documentary "...
Article - 04/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity