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When developing and executing your smart cities plans, are you paying attention to interoperability? Data security? Those have always been best practices, but this year, the consequences for failing to follow them could grow more severe.Council...
Article - 01/05/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Policy and leadership, Security and privacy
Montreal -- Quebec, Canada's largest city – already takes pride in its reputation as a digital technology center. Now it wants to be a world-class model of a smart city. It worked hard to decide what route to take.In 2014 Montreal established a...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Transportation, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the 13th of 17 themes defined in the standard -- telecommunication and innovation indicators. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46...
Article - 10/07/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership, Smart City Tools
As this story from Riverside illustrates, it is hard to cost justify a citywide wireless network for the sole purpose of providing Internet access to cities. One solution -- albeit one that requires collaboration between different departments and...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
In the process of researching our forthcoming Smart Cities Readiness Guide, we learned about the importance of high-speed fiber-optic networks. To quote this useful article from Governing Magazine, "a fiber-optic network can be 200 times faster than...
Article - 09/11/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership