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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
Gordon Feller is one of the smart city sector's premier thought leaders. Formerly CEO of the Urban Age Institute, he is now the Director of Urban Innovations at Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. Cisco is a Smart Cities Council Lead Partner...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It was IBM's Rich Michos who first enlightened me to the crucial role smart phones play in the smart city. As he explained in his interview about building a smarter planet one city at a time, smart phones are showing up everywhere on their own, in...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
It's no longer news when a major city announces its intention to be a world leader in smart city services. But it is illuminating to drill down to see what those cities mean by that announcement. And, especially, what kind of smart city applications...
Article - 05/28/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control, Policy and leadership
By most accounts, China has more smart city projects than any other region. Even so, many Westerners assume that the U.S. and Europe will be the leaders in digital government and e-services. Here's a story from China Daily that suggests otherwise...
Article - 05/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, China, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
By Jesse Berst Chairman, Smart Cities CouncilI come from the smart grid industry, where I saw both vendors and utilities act very dumb about the right ways to introduce smart technology. Many of them took a top-down approach, imposing new technology...
Article - 05/20/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Definitions and overviews, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Free public Wi-Fi has been a luxury until recently. Now we see evidence that it is gradually becoming a must-have, at least for those cities that hope to attract high-income technology professionals. For instance, Mountain View, California - home to...
Article - 05/07/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
If any company has carved out mind share as a smart cities thought leader, it is IBM. And the man responsible for IBM's smart cities messaging worldwide is Rich Michos, Vice President Marketing, Smarter Cities. There's a lot underneath that...
Resources - 05/14/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Reed Pangborn is AT&T's area vice president for government, education and medical. In that role, he is responsible for helping cities "mobilize" their applications. An active runner, hiker and skier, he is a happy resident of Phoenix, where it...
Resources - 05/04/2013
Active Region(s): Main, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Finance and procurement