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Cities across the globe have followed multiple tracks in their quest to become "smart." It isn’t a question of right or wrong. However, two key themes are emerging in their approach -- either start with a pilot project that produces quick results,...
Resources - 03/06/2016
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
A successful smart community evolution requires insightful selection of ideal smart projects and careful integration of complex systems to avoid a disconnected set of technology solutions. Black & Veatch focuses on the foundation of all smart...
Resources - 03/06/2016
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Category: Smart City Concepts
Copenhagen, Denmark is considered by many to be the most sustainable city in the world -- and it plans to be carbon neutral within 10 years. In this brief case study from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks, you can learn about the...
Resources - 12/29/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Connectivity
iGov is a modular smart government framework with a suite of modules that helps all levels of government deliver services and information, automate internal operations, and improve staff productivity while reducing the costs of governance. iGov from...
Resources - 12/02/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts
Complex legacy city infrastructures present an obstacle for cities struggling to provide better service to their citizens. And often governments focus on IT while operational technology is overlooked. This Schneider Electric white paper examines the...
Resources - 11/22/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Instrumentation and control
By 2050, about 70 per cent of the population of India would be living in cities. With this population shift, the need of the hour is Smart Cities that would support urban lifestyles. The Essel Group has chartered its journey to take the opportunity...
Resources - 10/08/2015
Active Region(s): India, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
Seoul’s problem with seemingly constantly overflowing public trash bins seemed insurmountable no matter how many times waste was collected during the day. The solution the city government chose was Clean Cubes from Council Associate Partner Ecube...
Resources - 10/08/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management, Examples and case studies
When South Korea’s top four universities contracted with smart waste and recycling management solution provider Ecube Labs (a Council Advisory Member), they were experiencing an overflow of litter from trash bins set around the campuses despite...
Resources - 10/08/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) created a 15-year plan to go green and reduce its carbon footprint. As part of its strategy, the school turned to Council Lead Partner Microsoft. Three years ago the school migrated its students from an on...
Resources - 09/29/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Computing resources
Watch this video to learn about the world's first pilot of Council Lead Partner GE's intelligent LED solution for cities that is now up and running in San Diego, California. “Imagine if your street light could do more than just provide light… if it...
Resources - 09/29/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Smart cities aim to reduce anticipated complexities and expenses that accompany future urbanization. Hence, integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), energy efficiency and sustainability form the backbone of these cities. For...
Resources - 09/26/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Computing resources, Examples and case studies, Visioning and roadmapping tools
This documentary profiles 10 megaprojects currently under development around the world, including the Dubai World Central Airport, Songdo International Business District in South Korea, Nicaragua's Grand Canal and the Delhi-Mumbai industrial...
Resources - 09/25/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Policy and leadership
A smart city is efficient, connected, sustainable over a long-term, self-contained, self-supporting and aesthetic. With five decaded of experience of developing cities, Egis envisages the role of the ICT network as an integrator of the essentials...
Resources - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
A 'Smart City' is one that has processes in place to make service delivery better, faster and cheaper. Many times, the application of a new technology will provide this edge, but sometimes it is a low-tech solution that best meets the 'better,...
Resources - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Built environment, Smart City Examples, Examples and case studies
As city officials look at how they can optimize their city's infrastructure to sustainably and efficiently deliver services to their residents, they face not only challenges but numerous decisions as they design their strategies and plans for...
Resources - 09/14/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Responsibility areas
In their first meeting in September 2014, President Barack Obama agreed that U.S. industry will serve as lead partners with the prime minister in developing three of those cities—Ajmer (Rajasthan), Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), and Allahabad (...
Resources - 09/02/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
Citizens today are demanding more accountability from their government. They want to see how their tax dollars are spent. They want to put a stop to waste and bloated bureaucracies. And they want their civil servants to be like the clerk at the...
Resources - 08/24/2015
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Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
The Smart Cities Readiness Guide® is the first collaborative and comprehensive framework for a smart city, against which cities can assess their readiness to innovate – identifying a path, taking next steps and measuring their progress. The Guide is...
Resources - 08/24/2015
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Category: Member Premium Resources, Smart City Concepts, The SCC Readiness Guide
At a roundtable hosted by the Guardian, experts discussed how long it will take for all cities to become smart. In this video, Council Lead Partner Cisco's Rod Halstead, Capita's Catherine Howe, Innovate UK's Niraj Saraf and Sarah Gonsalves of...
Resources - 08/09/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts
Author: Amrit P. Singh (AußenwirtschaftsCenter New Delhi 2015)Urbanisation in India2/3 of national GDP comes from urban IndiaThere are about 8,000 cities and towns in IndiaShare of urban population in 2011 was 31%50% in China, 78% in Mexico, 87% in...
Resources - 08/03/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
Key principles for planning Smart CitiesSmart Cities empower their citizens to make more informed decisions about their city through access to data about the city, its resources and its planning processesSmart Cities seek to offer best in class...
Resources - 08/03/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
In this presentation to members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Veolia North America CEO Terry Mah shares how businesses and communities are benefiting from environmental solutions that are delivered as part of the Circular Economy. Veolia is a...
Resources - 07/27/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Waste management
Listen in as smart cities experts from around the world offer insights on challenges facing cities in this video from the 2015 Innovative City conference in Nice, France. You'll hear Council Executive Director Philip Bane as well as Michael Dixon,...
Resources - 07/07/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to...
Resources - 06/17/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Government has decided on developing 100 "Smart Cities" in the country. Accordingly, in his budget speech of July 2014, the Finance Minister has stated as follows:"As the fruits...
Resources - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts
Expect drone technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, peer-to-peer services and the like to disrupt business as usual at city hall in the years ahead. A new report released by Brookings and authored by Kevin C. Desouza, David...
Resources - 06/01/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts
Take this video tour of openBerlin, a Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Center where collaboration between partners, researchers and startups is powering innovative new solutions for the Internet of Everything. Cisco is a Council Lead Partner.
Resources - 04/28/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Connectivity, Research, publications and web sites
Gregory Curtin, founder and CEO of Council Associate Partner Civic Resource Group International, talks about fulfilling the promise of technology in this new mobile/cloud/data first world.
Resources - 03/27/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
Location information can provide valuable insight that smart cities can use to improve the lives of citizens. The Open Geospatial Consortium Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework provides guidance on planning and implementing open spatial...
Resources - 03/03/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts
Much has been written about India's quest to build 100 smart cities. This brief video from India's Ministry of External Affairs provides a high-level overview of India's plans to tranform its urban landscape and its diplomatic efforts to reach out...
Resources - 01/29/2015
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
Cities everywhere are reinventing themselves to nurture the strong, differentiating identities that attract new citizens and businesses. In this video, General Manager Michael Dixon of Council Lead Partner IBM explains how smarter cities solutions...
Resources - 11/05/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts
The pdf linked below highlights results of a survey of North American city leaders on the readiness of their cities to undertake smart cities initiatives. The survey was a collaboration between Council Lead Partner Cisco and the Smart Cities Council.
Resources - 10/16/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Policy and leadership
The Smart City Readiness infographic linked below highlights drivers, challenges and steps for moving forward toward smarter cities. It is based on a survey of North American municipal leaders conducted by Cisco and the Smart Cities Council in...
Resources - 10/16/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Smart City Tools
Joel Cherkis discusses Microsoft's people-oriented approach with city leaders and how they are using technology to create better cities of the future. Cherkis is General Manager of Worldwide Government for Microsoft.
Resources - 08/19/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts
There is no other organization like the Smart Cities Council, as you'll learn in this video that provides an overview of the Council's work with public officials around the world to make their cities more livable, workable and sustainable. You'll...
Resources - 03/04/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews
In the video below, Council Associate Partner ABB explains its role in helping develop smart cities to address a city's goals of sustainability, competitiveness and becoming a more attractive place to live.
Resources - 02/24/2014
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy
In this video, Jesse Berst, Chairman of the Smart Cities Council, interviews Microsoft's Laura Ipsen, VP of World Wide Public Sector, about smart cities and about Microsoft's far-reaching CityNext initiative.
Resources - 10/28/2013
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Computing resources
Q&A with Jochen Kreusel, Head of sector initiative Smart Grids, ABBJochen Kreusel is an exemplary German technology expert -- someone who combines deep technical proficiency with strong managerial skills. His conversations are often marked by a...
Resources - 06/11/2013
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation
Michael Edmonds is a smooth and articulate spokesman for S&C Electric, the Chicago-based provider of electric power equipment and services for utilities. The British accent certainly doesn't hurt, but he can also lean on many years in the...
Resources - 05/20/2013
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Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Instrumentation and control