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While the we have certainly made progress to improve air quality, worldwide, it remains a problem. Globally, 4 million people die each year because of poor air quality. Some 90% of the world’s population lives in areas where the air pollution...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
At a gathering of local government innovation leaders in Victoria today Australia’s peak smart cities body released a guideline to help drive greater citizen-led innovation.Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) Executive Director Adam...
Article - 12/06/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Citizen engagement
The 1st SmartCitiesCouncil® - Europe Stakeholders’ Assembly recently took place in Dublin, Ireland on the 9th of November. The day’s theme was Accelerating your innovation economy and focused on how smart city solutions can advance innovation and...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Smart City Examples, SCC Spotlight Cities
Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Continental collaborates on autonomous vehicle R&D in Singapore Council Global Lead Partner Continental will collaborate with Singapore-based AV...
Article - 11/15/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Security and privacy
Open data, data that is made public, is valuable for cities internally because it enables different departments to share information conveniently and quickly among themselves. And it also can be a valuable resource for the community. New York City...
Article - 09/27/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Data management
We were in Louisville, KY, this week — one of the winners of our 2018 Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge. In nearly every city we go, public safety is one of the key focus areas. It makes sense. Safety is one of the key services that cities...
Article - 09/13/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Citizen engagement
Food rescue and recovery programs aren't new. We've reported on their strategies and technologies they use before. The benefits to keeping food that restaurants, stores and others can't use out of landfills are numerous: feeding the hungry, reducing...
Article - 09/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Wellness, Economic development, Citizen engagement
Pick 10 Americans at random and you’ll find that at least one of them doesn’t use the internet. The latest research from the Pew Research Center finds 11% of Americans don’t go online. There are some common traits among them. They tend to be older,...
Article - 09/06/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
After a rough decade with its Russian neighbors, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev is looking to rebrand itself as an Eastern European center of science, industry, education, and culture. The city of 3 million has developed a hub whose main goal is to...
Article - 08/08/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement
We’re often asked, “What is the smartest city?” It’s an impossible question to answer, although our Readiness Challenge winners are a good place to start. The reason it’s such an impossible question is that people rarely agree on the criteria. Are...
Article - 07/19/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Photo credit: New York CityDesigned to keep citizens informed on the variety of construction, repair or maintenance projects occurring around them, project tracking programs aren't a brand new idea. But more and more cities are adopting them as a...
Article - 07/09/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
A report from McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reveals how a variety of applications can significantly improve urban quality of life indicators, from reduced fatalities to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Smart Cities: Digital Solutions...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Dirty air has consequences — very serious consequences ranging from climate change to lung disease. In villages in India, clean-burning stoves are one key solution. The problem has been getting people to use them.Below, read about an innovative...
Article - 06/06/2018
Active Region(s): India, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Food loss and waste has been an issue for years. Canada's Zero Waste Council estimates more than a third of the food it produces goes to waste, and the numbers are similar in the U.S. and elsewhere. To put it in dollar terms, the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/31/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Food and Water, Citizen engagement
The trajectory for urbanisation is set, as we all know. The rapid growth rates of our cities and projections about their future are underpinned by people’s desire to live in urban areas, among other, more existential factors.In understanding the...
Article - 05/30/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement
While New Zealand may be considered a small country, its smart cities ambitions are anything but small. For two consecutive years New Zealand (and Singapore) swept up more recognitions for their smart cities initiatives than any others in the annual...
Article - 05/29/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Public safety and security, Citizen engagement
The capital and largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo is home to 275,000 residents, and like most cities looking to become smarter, it faces one big constraint: finance. So how does a city dealing with technical debt and remnants of war...
Article - 04/01/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement
This week I had the pleasure of leading a Readiness Workshop in Fairfax County, Virginia — a smart cities leader and one of the finalists in our 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. As you’ll read below, the county already has so much to celebrate...
Article - 03/22/2018
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Fairfax County, Analytics, Citizen engagement
A technology doesn’t make a city smart. A smart city is an organization that functions seamlessly to improve the lives of its people, using data as its guide. It’s more of a mindset than a “solution.”So how do you get there? Claro Partners is one of...
Article - 03/01/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
One of our key messages to cities is that you can provide better service — and at lower cost — by going digital. In an age where citizens can order almost anything online and have it delivered in a couple of days — if not a couple of hours — the old...
Article - 02/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Jelgava is Latvia’s fourth-largest city, but with a population of just 61,000, it’s still considered a micro city. However, according to the Financial Times investment research department fDi intelligence research, Jelgava ranks six among micro...
Article - 01/31/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Energy costs for low-income renters and affordable housing owners are disproportionately high. While there are programs to help them, they often can't help enough to make a difference — or help all of the people who need assistance. As cities work...
Article - 01/11/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Involving citizens in public data collection and decision-making processes is helping cities across Europe narrow in on the projects and areas that really need shaping. Cities like Oradea in Romania have connected its public institutions to a single...
Article - 11/08/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Telecommunications, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management
The very idea of how to provide government services is at a transition point right now. Part of it is demand. In an age where your citizens can order virtually anything online with a couple of clicks and have it delivered in two days, many dealings...
Article - 11/02/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
The Smart Cities Council has always said cities shouldn't go it alone when developing their smart city planning and implementation strategies: learn from the successes of those cities that have already made the commitments and taken the risks to...
Article - 10/26/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
A year ago, we opened the application process for our first Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants and five cities stood out. Last week, we were in Philadelphia to deliver our final workshop for the Class of 2017 and 200 people participated...
Article - 10/19/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, SCC Spotlight Cities
It’s easy to say everyone should have access to the transportation resources they need. But as many city leaders and planners know, it can be much more difficult to deliver on that pledge. A panel discussion among professionals in the field at Smart...
Article - 10/05/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement
En 2015, la ville de Mons (Belgique) était nommée Capitale Européenne de la Culture. Grâce à ce titre, Mons, capitale de la province du Hainaut en Wallonie, a mis sur pied un certain nombre de projets intelligents dont l'un des plus créatifs permit...
Article - 09/11/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Citizen engagement
Our third-annual Smart Cities Week D.C. is less than a month away. Oct. 3-5, the world’s leading smart cities experts will converge on Washington, D.C., sharing advice and practical steps you can take to make your city more livable, workable and...
Article - 09/07/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement
There’s no doubt that education matters more than ever. Manufacturing jobs in advanced industries now practically require some higher education. More than three-quarters of workers in those fields today have attended some college. In 1980, that...
Article - 08/31/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement
In India, where there are cities struggling to provide even basic amenities to their tax-paying citizens, a village in Gujarat—Punsari—is equipped with modern amenities like CCTV cameras, WiFi and a renewable energy power station. However, a...
Article - 08/21/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
Solapur, a textile and bidi manufacturing hub, is one of the major cities of Maharashtra that attracts a sizeable number of visitors for business or commercial purposes. The city is also of religious importance with more than five lakh pilgrims...
Article - 08/02/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Waste management, Citizen engagement
Bhopal, a vibrant economic centre of Madhya Pradesh, has launched many innovative smart solutions. The city recently has launched its first innovative public private partnership (PPP)-based smart poles and intelligent streetlights project under the...
Article - 07/31/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Citizen engagement
Citizen mobility is one of the key issues in a city like Pune. The city relies solely on buses for public transportation, but the average number of buses per lakh population is only 37! Additionally, buses in Pune have issues with availability (...
Article - 07/27/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Data management, Examples and case studies
Coimbatore with a decadal growth rate of around 20% is a rapidly growing city in the state of Tamil Nadu. Known as Manchester of India, the city is undertaking numerous initiatives towards improving basic services and quality of life of citizens....
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
Indore, being the largest and the most populous city in Madhya Pradesh with a population of around 20 lakh (according to the 2011 census), the Indore Municipal Corporation considers sanitation and solid waste management as its topmost priority....
Article - 07/25/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Transportation, Waste management, Citizen engagement, Data management
India’s ranking in terms of food security is not on par with its status of being one of the biggest producers of vegetables. According to a research, India produces 220 million tons of vegetables and fruits in a year but only 30 per cent of the...
Article - 07/23/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Citizen engagement
Surat, being the centre of opportunities for laborers and investors, has attracted migrants from nearby rural areas and cities. This has increasing the demand for intra-city transportation. In the year 2006, Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC)...
Article - 07/20/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Transportation, The Enablers, Citizen engagement, Interoperability
We describe smart cities as those who use technology to become more livable, workable and sustainable. But what does it mean to become more livable? You’ll find some good ideas below from a project by Council Partner CIVIQ Smartscapes.CIVIQ asked...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Citizen engagement
At a certain point in history, citizens came to expect access to city services – police, fire city hall – by phone. We’re at a similar inflection point now, as citizens increasingly expect to access city services by web or smartphone.As a result,...
Article - 07/13/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
In coming months, Bengaluru will witness a massive public bicycle sharing (PBS) project proposed by the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT). The project, with around 4,000 cycle and 350 docking points, is touted to be India’s largest cycle-...
Article - 07/11/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Upward Mobility, Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Conducting a nationwide paperless examination is not an easy task. The Indian Railways (IR)—in a massive saving drive—has saved over 4 lakh trees and 319 crore paper sheets just by adopting online test by replacing bulky, multi-lingual question...
Article - 07/10/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Responsibility areas, Health and human services, Transportation, Citizen engagement
The Smart Cities Council has added a new chapter to the Smart Cities Readiness Guide, the handbook for urban transformation. “Digital City Services” explains how cities worldwide are converting their paper, phone and face-to-face interactions to...
Article - 07/06/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Citizen engagement strategies and tools
The smart cities movement has been part of the arc of technological evolution. Now providing a framework for more liveable, workable and sustainable city making, the smart cities movement promotes these outcomes through the application of...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership
Earlier this year, we named the first five recipients of our Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grants, a program we developed to help cities take that next step toward taking full advantage of smart technologies. This week, I had the pleasure...
Article - 04/20/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
We’ve said it before: data and the effective use of it is what makes a city a smart city. But that doesn’t mean that all of the data needs to be your data. Or that you even need to be the one to find the best and highest use for it.From inspiring...
Article - 04/13/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
Through its Living Lab platform, Council Lead Partner AT&T, the city's Dallas Innovation Alliance, additional tech companies such as Lead Partner Current, powered by GE, academic institutions and the community are working together on three...
Article - 03/30/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
After spending time earlier this month in the Adelaide Smart City Studio with Beth Worrall, the Studio’s Manager, it was clear that smart city leadership was strong, and its goal in embracing the smart cities movement was a critical pathway to...
Article - 03/21/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
As you’re planning your smart cities efforts, do you stop to think about who they will benefit? It makes a difference. Case in point: Austin.Austin is growing fast and the fact is there’s virtually an unlimited number of projects that it could take...
Article - 02/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Smart cities need engaged citizens to be successful. And cities have used several strategies as they work to achieve that citizen-city connection. We thought what Chicago and Council Lead Partner AT&T are doing to enhance connectivity and make...
Article - 01/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
While Boston is already considered a progressive and innovative place, city officials there think they can do better with their smart city and IoT planning and investments. So they're actively soliciting advice and recommendations from citizens and...
Article - 12/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Connectivity
Wondering how the Internet of Things can deliver valuable benefits in your neighborhoods and downtowns? Then don't miss the new white paper the Council produced with Microsoft; it's loaded with examples of IoT in action in cities around the world....
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Connectivity
There's no one way to build a smart city. Cities are different and the wants and needs of their citizens, while similar in many ways, are different in others. As many cities have found out, it's not always easy to get citizens involved with planning...
Article - 10/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Simone Brody worked in high level occupations in the public and private sectors before heading up the What Works Cities initiative which, among other things, is committed to help cities accelerate their data use to help people improve their lives....
Article - 09/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Data management
City leaders looking for inspiration in their smart city endeavors need look no further than Dubai, where a digital transformation has been under way for two decades now. What’s particularly inspiring is how citizens are front and center in the city...
Article - 09/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Engaged citizens are so critical to the success of a smart city that we’ve devoted this three-part series to developing it. We’ve covered what works and what doesn’t. Today, we wrap up this series with three things: three reasons why you need to get...
Article - 09/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
What may be the best path forward for one city's smart city project may not work for another. Each city's needs and what citizens expect differ from city to city. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, we can learn quite a lot from what other...
Article - 08/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Policy and leadership
It’s no secret that citizen engagement plays a critical role in the success of smart cities initiatives, which is why we are doing a three-part series to help you be more effective. In the first part, we covered best practices. In this part, we’re...
Article - 08/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
Flashy apps and websites get a lot of attention for reaching people, but by themselves, they are not citizen engagement. They are tools for developing it. And citizen engagement should be at the very heart of your smart cities initiatives....
Article - 08/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement
As long as you provide people with reliable power, that’s good enough, right? Not anymore. A new study finds millennials want much more from their power utility. And if you don’t provide it, you could end up losing their business.One of the demands...
Article - 08/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement