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I am recently back from the Smart Cities Expo World Congress - the industry’s annual gathering of everything and anyone smart cities, hosted in the city of Barcelona.It was my third my trip to the global gathering, and again it didn’t disappoint....
Article - 12/04/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
Each year SCCANZ supports important smart and sustainable cities events and training that we believe help accelerate investment in smarter, more sustainable cities. With so many private events springing up, its sometimes hard to determine which...
Article - 11/27/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
Following confirmation from local government representatives from across Australia and New Zealand at the recent Smart Cities Week Australia event in Sydney (29-31 October), Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand has launched a coordinated...
Article - 11/07/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
As the smart cities agenda gathers pace, and deployment of solutions increases, it is critically important that we have a grounded strategy around investment in smart cities technology. This means that smart cities efforts align with organisations...
Article - 08/08/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
It’s been two years since Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand launched. Wow!From a 'hunch' in January 2016, to Australia’s peak smart cities body in 2018.Our reach and impact has surpassed our expectations. It has actually blown us away. And...
Article - 08/08/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools
By Michael Di MatteoOur visions for smart cities — with lush vegetated buildings, pristine living streams and lakes, and resilience to weather extremes — will be realised only if we plan for our most precious resource: water.In this article,...
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
A smart city is a complex organism of people, governments and organisations that requires holistic solutions — which is why Council Global Lead Partner Hitachi and the Smart Cities Council brought together a group of experts in March to explore the...
Article - 06/20/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
The smart cities movement has been part of the arc of technological evolution. Now providing a framework for more liveable, workable and sustainable city making, the smart cities movement promotes these outcomes through the application of...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
Focusing on proof of concept, leveraging funding, and advancing inter-agency collaboration were but some of the successful approaches employed as part of this national smart cities program in New Zealand. Engagement with stakeholders was considered...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
Melbourne’s liveability has always been its strong suit, taking out yet again the top spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit rankings. But one emerging contributor – its smart cities focus – could also be playing an important part in the daily...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
Last week I shared extracts of my interview with Chris Isles from Place Design Group, one of SCCANZ’s member organisations working on IDEA City at Springfield – a new city being built from scratch, within the City of Ipswich in Southeast Queensland....
Article - 04/18/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Major cities within the Australia and New Zeland region are undergoing massive change, through extraordinary growth. Sydney and Auckland come to mind immediately, having spent much time there recently. The infrastructure spend in both of these...
Article - 04/15/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
As I sat in on the briefing by UrbanGrowthNSW last week regarding their draft sustainability strategy, it was clear they were on a journey. Not everything was complete, there were gaps and urban challenges they are seeking to address. But in the...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
As we reported a few weeks ago from our Smart Cities Forum with Consult Australia, the smart cities standards dialogue in Australia is heating up. And rightly so. The pioneering work of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia has been...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
The Australian city of Adelaide in June launched AdelaideFree, a wholesale makeover of its free citywide WiFi network. This public-private joint venture involved installing nearly 200 new wireless access points from SCC Lead Partner Cisco. Another...
Article - 08/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Examples and case studies
"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste" goes the old joke. So is an earthquake. “The rebuilding of Christchurch following the 2011 earthquakes presents an extraordinary opportunity to fit the city with sensors and hardware, to collect data that will...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
We explained how Christchurch New Zealand was taking advantage of a recent earthquake as an excuse to retrofit the city with sensors. But of course you don't want to wait for a natural disaster to motivate the troops. Here's a different option, also...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
Does the Smart Cities Council need to become the Smart Suburbs Council instead? New research from the University of Lincoln (UK), the New Zealand Energy Centre and the University of Auckland claims that suburbs have a greater potential to become...
Article - 08/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Policy and leadership