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If you are a city in North America, you are invited to provide information about your smart city projects in the Council’s Smart Cities Activator. You may have gotten an email inviting your city to participate. If so, follow the...
Article - 09/18/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Enterprise Ireland is partnering with the Smart Cities Council to accelerate Irish smart city progress. The Smart Cities Council is inviting North American cities to nominate projects from which Enterprise Ireland will select cities with bold...
Article - 09/18/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
A smart city generates a significant amount of data with the most important being a city or regions finances.To be truly smart, a community must be empowered to understand how their money is being spent, that’s the story of OpenGov. Around the world...
Article - 09/18/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
India’s largest private company by revenues, Reliance Industries (RIL) plans to support waste treatment and management start-ups – both domestic and global.Vipul Shah, Chief Operating Officer – Petrochemicals, RIL, said that the company is looking...
Article - 09/17/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Government will award tenders worth over Rs 2 lakh crore by March next year, as well as finish smart city projects worth Rs 50,000 crore by June 2020. This was done in order to fast-track the implementation of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM).The...
Article - 09/17/2019
Active Region(s): India
The physical manifestation of what is the city, is the result of many hands shaping its component parts. Urban planners, architects, engineers, economists and urban designers to name a few.There is a deep and diverse set of professions that plan,...
Article - 09/15/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Very soon, Mangaluru, which is the chief port city of Karnataka, will convert its 24 old bus shelters into smart ones. These smart bus shelters will provide real time transit data like route numbers, information on arriving buses with their...
Article - 09/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
A list of the smartest 10 cities in India was created after a recent assessment by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The list placed Ahmedabad on the first position, followed Nagpur, Ranchi, Bhopal, Tiruppur, Surat and...
Article - 09/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to make the city the first state capital to attain 100 per cent scientific disposal of e-waste. Bhopal produces upwards of 250MT of e-waste each year. It includes extremely toxic and harmful...
Article - 09/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Aurangabad Industrial City (Auric) was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently. Auric is being developed at the Shendra and Bidkin nodes of the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. The city, equipped with underground plug-n-play...
Article - 09/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
Several developmental programs initiated by GHMC with an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore in LB Nagar zone were inaugurated by Malla Reddy, Telangana Labour Minister, along with the city mayor Bonthu Rammohan, Malkajgiri MP Revanth Reddy and LB Nagar...
Article - 09/09/2019
Active Region(s): India
As part of the Central Government's initiative to promote eco-friendly public transportation, fifty electric buses will be added to Goa’s corporation fleet. These additional buses will operate on a public-private partnership basis and will be seen...
Article - 09/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
A demonstration plant was inaugurated in Dehradun by Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on August 28, 2019 for converting plastic waste to diesel based on at the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) of Council...
Article - 09/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has tied up with the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL) to launch ‘Zero Waste Project’ under area based development project of the smart city. The organizers of the project have decided to...
Article - 09/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
A deadline of 30 days has been set up by the Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (NMSCDCL) to complete the Rs 193-crore plan project of upgrading the basic infrastructure in the old city areas. The project will give a facelift to...
Article - 09/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
Under the smart city plan, the Maharashtra Government has given its approval to the Nashik Metro’s detailed project report (DPR), which was prepared by the MahaMetro. The project will be known as Nashik Metro Neo. The Central and State Governments...
Article - 09/05/2019
Active Region(s): India
The decks have been cleared for the much-awaited drainage pipeline project at the Nanasaheb Peshwe lake, popularly known as Katraj lake. The groundbreaking ceremony for the project was held recently in the presence of Pune MP Girish Bapat and Union...
Article - 08/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Haryana Government has decided to enhance the scope of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) from 80 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to 86 ULBs in order to enable the poor and vulnerable urban poor household’s access to gainful self-employment and...
Article - 08/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Odisha Government has decided to set up 114 waste processing and disposal facilities in all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) very soon. The reason: piling up of solid waste. Of 114 ULBs (including five municipal corporations, 53 municipalities and 61...
Article - 08/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
A set of recommendations that can empower gram panchayats to effectively deal with waste was launched by the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR). The step-by-step guide has asked the panchayats to ban the use of use-...
Article - 08/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
Roads in Patna are set to get a cleaner look with the Patna Smart City Limited (PSCL) planning to bury the mess of dangling criss-cross cables of electricity, telephone and broadband among other wires. Altogether 30 roads in the city will be...
Article - 08/29/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has proposed 70 projects with an estimated expenditure of Rs 29 billion under the ‘Smart City’ mission, Municipal Commissioner G. Srijana said.“As many as 22 projects wroth ?260 crore have been...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
Inside Look: What cities were buying and planning in August 2019Companies looking to supply smart cities with products or services have plenty of opportunities available across the country. As more government agencies begin investing in the smart...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Following the agitation by nearby residents over the effluent discharge to the Kalachal and Chathanattu canals by the units at Cochin Special Economic Zone (CSEZ), the government agency has decided to address the issue with the establishment of a...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
Kohima Smart City in collaboration with the Green Team Kohima held a consultation meeting with Kohima Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI) under the ‘100 days Smart City Special Initiative Campaign on Sanitation’ in the chamber of the...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
Union government’s mantra of One City One Impact is to showcase the progress made by 100 smart cities as Modi 2.0 completes 100 days in October. For this, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has directed all 100 smart cities to choose one...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
Post Ladakh being declared a Union Territory (UT), it is likely that its headquarter Leh will be the next city to be awarded the ‘Smart City’ tag. It is all set to undergo a massive ground-level transformation as the Centre is keen on introducing...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): India
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief has cleared a proposal that will benefit all housing societies, but awaits standing committee approval. If you segregate garbage and dispose of your own wet and dry waste, you can get a property tax...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): India
Google is collaborating with Cisco for its ‘gStation’ offering that provides access to free and high-speed WiFi at public locations across India. Under the partnership, Cisco is providing the network infrastructure and about 25 locations already...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): India
Street lights are not working? Ritu Maheshwari, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Noida Authority, has launched a mobile app for LED street light grievance Redressal, in the city. The application is available on Google play store as well as Apple...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): India
The Madurai Corporation approved the establishment of a sewage treatment plant (STP) with two million liters per day (MLD) capacity at Vaigai river to treat sewage water carried by the Pandhalkudi channel before entering the river course.According...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): India
Noida has come out with an unique solution to segregate waste. Residents of Sector 15A of Noida started segregating waste with the launch of three e-vehicles with two compartments for wet and dry waste collection from houses. The e-rickshaws, which...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): India
We are hearing more about the Data Trust these days, as our efforts in opening-up and sharing data evolve, with mixed success.Just earlier this week, SCC hosted an on-line discovery session around digital transparency in the public realm. This...
Article - 08/15/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
The Smart Cities Council recently brought together government stakeholders and Smart Cities Council members to discuss current issues around the use of technology and the collection of data in the public realm. From deployment...
Article - 08/13/2019
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy frameworks and tools
WeGO Partners with Smart Cities Council WeGO selects Smart Cities Activator to manage city engagement Seoul, Korea. August 7, 2019. World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) and Smart Cities Council (Council) have partnered to improve...
Article - 08/11/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Thank you for selecting the Services offered by Smart Cities Council Inc. (referred to as "SCC", "we", "our", or "us").Review these Terms of Service ("Contract") thoroughly. This Contract is a legal Contract between you (“You” or “Your”) and SCC, a...
Article - 08/10/2019
Active Region(s): Main
Thank you for selecting the Services offered by Smart Cities Council Inc. (referred to as "SCC", "we", "our", or "us").Review these Terms of Service ("Contract") thoroughly. This Contract is a legal Contract between you (“You” or “Your”) and SCC, a...
Article - 08/02/2019
Active Region(s): Main
As per a new move by the Delhi Development Authority, a section of Dwarka is set to be remade as a Mini Smart City as well as the latest chill spot for the residents of NCR.In accordance with the DDA's plan to make Dwarka a mini Smart city, there is...
Article - 07/30/2019
Active Region(s): India
From next year, the security system in Kochi will be artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled with over 1,000 cameras controlling the entire traffic and surveillance activities in the city. The Police Control Room is all set to witness modernization,...
Article - 07/30/2019
Active Region(s): India
After MahaMetro implemented the idea of tapping rainwater at its stations in Nagpur, city’s skating instructor Rohit Deshpande has now proposed to store rainwater from footpaths and roads.Though the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has welcomed...
Article - 07/30/2019
Active Region(s): India