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Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.IBM's cloud data center for the U.S. ArmyCouncil Lead Partner will build a $62 million cloud data center at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The project is the initial...
Article - 02/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Computing resources
It's not uncommon for technology companies to align themselves with high schools, colleges and universities. The institutions can offer students opportunities to learn the skills they'll need to succeed in the high-tech field — and the companies...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources
A post on the World Economic Forum (WEF) site introduces Martin Burt, founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, the microfinance organization that developed the Poverty Stoplight assessment tool now being used in 18 countries in Latin America, Asia...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
Recognizing that digital devices and the Internet have become so essential in daily life – and that digital inequality can exacerbate educational and economic inequality -- the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop surveyed nearly 1,200 low and...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
With the launch of its new cloud ecosystem, Council Lead Partner GE envisions a way for radiologists, clinicians and other medical professionals to collaborate on patient cases quickly and efficiently.The GE Health Cloud and the applications...
Article - 12/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Data management
The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi had officially launched the 'DigiLocker' service under its flagship 'Digital India' campaign in late June, while the soft launch of the service was done earlier in February 2015.The service...
Article - 10/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Interoperability
A new suite of tools to improve health care analytics could dramatically improve health care, both by bringing new discoveries to market faster and by better treating patients with chronic conditions.Council Lead Partner IBM is expanding its health...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources
Why digital citizenship is a vital part of education An interesting Q&A on the Verizon website features two experts in digital citizenship talking about why kids need an early introduction to appropriate use of technology. To put it in...
Article - 08/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Schools, like cities, generally operate on tight budgets. So, how does a school efficiently and cost-effectively teach students at campuses miles apart?Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland had to deal with that question. Its local campuses are...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner Ooredoo's new Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management System (EMR) works through a dedicated connection to give Qatar's healthcare community a way to efficiently handle patient information. The service is intended to...
Article - 07/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
For nearly 25 years, Somalia’s economy has been virtually cut off from the rest of the world. A civil war caused its financial system to collapse and concerns about fraud have stood in the way of rebuilding it. But Council Lead Partner MasterCard is...
Article - 06/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Payments, Computing resources, Security and privacy
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
Even though technology has evolved rapidly over the past several decades, the basic process for summoning emergency responders hasn’t. If you need help, you typically need to find a phone and make a voice call to an emergency number.People needing...
Article - 03/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity
Many cities have smartphone apps that residents and visitors can use to check how restaurants have fared during health inspections. Visit the Smart Cities Apps Gallery for examples like Sac Food, which diners in the Sacramento, CA area can use to...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The Council's Smart Cities Readiness Guide highlights how advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) will transform the delivery of essential health and human services in powerful ways – and how smart cities will ride the wave to...
Article - 01/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources
Scroll down for short takes from Council Partners…Ooredoo bringing smarter healthcare infrastructure to QatarCouncil Lead Partner Ooredoo will help develop Qatar’s first cloud-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Practice Management System. As...
Article - 01/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
For cities to be competitive, they need the skilled workforces that businesses today demand. That's the idea behind the innovative Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) model that began in Brooklyn in 2011 is now spreading to...
Article - 11/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Computing resources
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
Scroll down for short takes from Council members…Enel unit chosen for Chilean marine R&D effort Enel Green Power. a unit of the Italian utility Enel, has been selected by the Chilean government’s economic development organization to help set up...
Article - 10/31/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
As first responders arrive at emergencies involving hazardous chemicals, they have to make fast decisions about how they handle the situation and its victims. A new cloud-based service will help ensure they get more detailed and accurate information...
Article - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity