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We recently reported on a collaboration between the city of Baltimore and Council Advisor the National Resources Defense Council to reduce food waste, provide high-quality food for the hungry and other benefits (including for local economies) food...
Article - 11/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
Strategic partnerships are essential for smart city success. And as we've said many times before, local academic institutions make great partners. They can often help cities successfully overcome challenges they couldn't resolve on their own by...
Article - 10/11/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
Every year since 1999, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) think-tank announces which world city it deems most intelligent after a year-long evaluation that includes a quantitative analysis of extensive data, site inspections by the Intelligent...
Article - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Economic development, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
Cities worldwide share a daunting challenge: where to find the talent to manage the technologies that make smart cities possible.Johannesburg – South Africa's largest city -- recently unveiled its approach, a program referred to as COJEDI to educate...
Article - 05/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
It sounds like a solution a child might offer: How do you end homelessness? Give them homes. Most people would dismiss that answer as a crazy idea, but Utah gave it a try and found that it really works.Utah cut homelessness by so much that it now...
Article - 05/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Policy and leadership
When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took the wraps off the city’s new multi-faceted sustainability plan, it was clear that he wasn’t going to be timid about dealing with the city’s increasing temperatures and growing population density.The new 20-...
Article - 04/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
By Pratap Padode Smart Cities Council IndiaThe 2015-2016 Union Budget stayed away from using the term smart cities, unlike the one in 2014-2015 which made a special mention, but that doesn’t imply that the Indian government has lost interest in...
Article - 03/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership
Australia’s fastest-growing city is trying to stop a fast-growing problem: How to keep up the economic growth while still providing a place for low-income residents to live.As cities grow, low-income housing is often the first to be cleared out to...
Article - 08/08/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the second of 17 themes defined in the standard – education indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 08/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
"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
The inaugural City Climate Leadership Awards have just been announced. To be strictly accurate, these awards don't rank the planet's 10 most sustainable cities. Rather, they measure sustainability in 10 narrow categories.But even though these cities...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
The United Kingdom's Technology Strategy Board (an advisor to the Smart Cities Council) has just released findings from stage one of its Future Cities Demonstrator Programme. The notice announcing the new report calls out two key findings. First,...
Article - 07/09/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Policy and leadership
Many smart city observers believe older cities will be left behind. Green-field cities, like those being built from scratch in China, will have a much easier time, they say, since new cities don't have to retrofit legacy infrastructure.In some cases...
Article - 07/01/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
If you have any doubt about the need for the developing world to rapidly deploy smart technology, skim through this report. It identifies a "perfect storm" of impending threats. More importantly, it identifies more than 100 ways those cities can...
Article - 06/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Public safety and security, Policy and leadership
Grist is a publication that promises "environmental news, commentary, advice." They recently hired a standup comedian to compile a list of the 10 U.S. cities that will be hardest hit by climate change.Dig past the relentless one-liners and you'll...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Policy and leadership
Bristol is a city of just under half a million people in the southwest UK. Its city council has just joined a consortium to develop home sensor systems to improve the health and wellbeing of its citizens.When it comes to health and human services, I...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Health and human services, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
A coalition of global cities has combed through 2,500 smart city apps and 456 semi-finalists to choose 23 winners. Many of them are city-scale solutions, such as the proposal to offer free WiFi in the public areas of Lagos. But many are "lightweight...
Article - 05/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
This news from IBM described below illustrates several important trends:Health and human services heavily impact livability. Health and human services are an often overlooked but increasingly important part of the smart cities equation. Cities that...
Article - 04/18/2013
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership