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When emergencies hit, San Francisco plans to be ready with information citizens need to respond appropriately. As a report on the Emergency Management website explains, Crisis Mode is an online crisis map developed by Google's charitable arm, Google...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Computing resources, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
News from Smart Cities Council members...Opower signs major deal in Japan. Opower is a Council Associate Partner and the global leader in customer engagement solutions for the utility industry. It has just signed a business partnership with Tokyo...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Data management, Policy and leadership
The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit that pushes for greater government openness and transparency, says the city of Louisville, Kentucky is the first in the U.S. to declare open data the "default" for the formatting, storage and availability of its...
Article - 10/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Data management, Policy and leadership
Cities in Mississippi are competing to be part of an aggressive deployment of 1 gigabyte-per-second, ultra high-speed Internet access across the state. The Fiber to the Home initiative by Ridgeland, Mississippi-based telecommunications company C...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Policy and leadership
We see several encouraging trends in the new Smart City Tracker 3Q13 report from Navigant Research that confirms momentum around smart city programs continues to grow. Among them:A growing movement to define standards and frameworks that enable...
Article - 10/23/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership, Research, publications and web sites