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Smart Cities Council Partners have the unique opportunity to engage with multiple cities at the same time working together using the Council's Smart Cities Activator Platform. Here is an example of how the process works. You can download the PDF and...
Article - 10/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
About half the cities I talk to say they are the next Silicon Valley for their country or region. They love branding their city as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurialism with no clear understanding of what Silicon Valley had to do to become...
Article - 09/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Led by Carlos Rivero, the CDO for the Commonwealth of Virginia (USA), this panel at Smart Cities Week Global 2020 will be exploring how cities around the world are implementing open data initiatives.Register to attend Smart Cities Week here (free.)...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
In 2015, Stephen Adler, the Chief Information Strategist for IBM stated that IBM’s view about ‘smart cities’ was that a smart city was ‘self-aware.’ Peter Hirshberg, the Chairman of the City Innovate Foundation stated probably more comprehensively...
Article - 09/08/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN
Urban flooding is the most common disaster in the United StatesFlooding is the most common natural disaster in the United States. As reported by the University of Maryland and Texas A&M (Galveston) in 2018, in its report titled ‘The Growing...
Article - 09/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Apply to become a Readiness Cohort Leader by Janaury 31, 2021 HEREThe Application is easy, taking about an hour. Tell us your problem, a project that will solve it and give us a letter from a senior city leader about your commitment.Benefts for...
Article - 08/20/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
A New HorizonOpportunity arising from crisis (危机)"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." | John F. KennedyRegister for free to attend for a global...
Article - 08/19/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to fundamentally shape the way that the public sector operates and does business in all industries. As cities and other public agencies are responding to the ongoing pandemic, GovWin’s team of state and local...
Article - 07/29/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The Smart Cities Council is one of the world’s leading voices on the future of cities. For more than 8 years we have been supporting cities around the world in their pursuit to embrace technology and data as a force for good. We have...
Article - 07/13/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online
With Cities Helping Cities, We Change the World!The Smart Cities Council is re-launching its 2020 Global Readiness Challenge. The 2020 Readiness Challenge’s theme is ‘cities helping cities.’Applicants will be judged by a global panel of judges and...
Article - 07/12/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator, ASEAN, Smart Cities Week
Category: Information Center
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to fundamentally shape the way that the public sector operates and does business in all industries. As cities and other public agencies are responding to the ongoing pandemic, GovWin’s team of state and local...
Article - 07/07/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Vote for Virginia’s FAACT at StateScoop!Virginia, a 2018 Readiness Challenge winner, has had multiple government leaders committed to making the Commonwealth ‘smart.’ Carlos Rivero, the current Chief Data Officer is the most recent and his office’s...
Article - 06/27/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As a Readiness Challenge Winner, Miami did the work yesterday to be ready for the crisis todayIn recent months, Miami, like many other cities, has been concentrating on COVID-19 pandemic-related needs—establishing small business and resident...
Article - 06/25/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Virtual training in a post-COVID 19 worldCOVID-19 is forcing cities and utilities to consider how they can expedite their digital transformation while still operating. A perfect storm of operational risks are on the horizon for cities and utilities...
Article - 06/23/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to increasingly affect cities across the U.S. earlier this year, a number found they needed to quickly determine a way to provide citizens with access to key city services—and, at the same time, enable municipal...
Article - 06/16/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The coronavirus (COVID-19) is continuing to fundamentally shape the way that the public sector operates and does business. As cities and other public agencies are responding to the ongoing pandemic, GovWin’s team of state and local market analysts...
Article - 05/26/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Philadelphia has used the ‘smart city journey’ to pro-actively solve city-wide issues with agility and innovation. The smart city journey has helped COVID-19 responsiveness.Trust and stakeholder engagementEvidence has shown that governments that...
Article - 05/11/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to have a profound influence on public life, it has likewise made a major impact on how companies do business with the government. Analysis and research on the government’s continuing response are available...
Article - 05/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
All Smart Cities Activator Users agree to this Smart Cities Activator End User License ('EULA.')Thank you for selecting Smart Cities Activator as provided by Smart Cities Council Inc. (referred to as "SCC", "we", "our", or "us"). SCC is a...
Article - 04/27/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Regarding Smart Cities Council efforts during COVID-19 crisis.To all our partners that seek to make cities livable, workable and sustainable –We have delayed publishing this letter as we have been busy working with cities and our partners during...
Article - 04/21/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
Inside Look: What cities were buying and planning in March 2020As government agencies continue investing in the smart cities movement, companies seeking to supply smart cities with products or services have plenty of opportunities. And as the...
Article - 04/17/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The Smart Cities Council acknowledges the challenges currently being faced by cities to a level never seen before. We are here now, and will be during the rebuild. Please review the most recent editions of 3 Things for Cities Helping Cities. March...
Article - 04/15/2020
Active Region(s): North America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT:Investors:Antonella Franzen(609) 720-4665Ryan Edelman(609) 720-4545Media:Phil Clement(414) 208-5161Fraser Engerman(414) 308-8321JOHNSON CONTROLS DELIVERS MISSION CRITICAL ‘ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND PERSONNEL’...
Article - 03/23/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Smart Cities Week San Diego - COVID-19 - CANCELLEDSee you at Smart Cities Week Washington DC, September 31 - October 1, 2020
Article - 03/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Virginia Chief Data Officer to ‘kick-off’ Device & Asset Management Collaborative PlanningCities helping cities to kick start your planning processThe Smart Cities Council will lead an online collaborative planning process for cities that seek...
Article - 03/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
Information about this 'cities helping cities' online collaborative planningVirginia Chief Data Officer Carlos Rivero will 'kick-start' the planning process City of Wichita Smart City Coordinator Michael J. Barnett will lead the planning...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): North America
Register here.Cities helping cities to kick start your planning processThe Smart Cities Council will lead an online collaborative planning process for cities that seek to implement device and asset management.This is for cities only and any city in...
Article - 02/26/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
From the Smart Cities Council - A recent survey by the Smart Cities Council of Virginia cities and counties (all 139 of them) found that a fundamental use-case for data sharing was managing assets and devices. This is partly explained by the...
Article - 02/19/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Smart Cities Activator
IDC recently identified the US as one of the top smart city markets for 2020. This forecast is reinforced by the policy proposals of the 2020 US Presidential candidates. In fact, we found a strong focus on not only infrastructure; but also, smart...
Article - 02/07/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Readiness Cities
With the launch of the 2020 global Readiness Challenge, we are receiving questions from cities large and small about participating. Here is a short recap of key terms – The Challenge is open to all cities globally. The Council made a conscious...
Article - 02/05/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
From Managing Director Philip Bane: "Jarrett Campbell from AVEVA and I have taught smart city workshops together. Jarrett is a great story teller and holds our audience interest's when he talks about how he made his home smart and also how the...
Article - 02/02/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Recent Contract AwardsGovWin IQ tracks government projects through their entire lifecycle, including contract award announcements. Here’s three examples of the kinds of “smart” projects that have recently been awarded to vendors by cities...
Article - 02/02/2020
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Collaborative online planning for multi-stakeholder projectsSmart Cities Activator is an online platform that helps cities plan and deploy smart projects.Activator is also the first and only smart city tool for collaborative planning. It can handle...
Article - 01/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Smart Cities Activator
The 2020 Global Readiness Challenge is the result of many years of hard work including analysis of city needs, challenge design, outreach campaigns and over 45 workshops in North America alone. In this process we learned that face to face...
Article - 01/15/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America
Recent Contract AwardsGovWin IQ tracks government projects through their entire lifecycle, including contract award announcements. Here’s three examples of the kinds of “smart” projects that have recently been awarded to vendors by cities across the...
Article - 01/14/2020
Active Region(s): North America
Ask for Help:Use our CONTACT FORM to get in direct contact with an SCC Technical Support individual. Watch a Video:2020 North American Readiness Challenge How to Apply and Maximize Impact to Your Community ( 30 minute Webinar) ...
Article - 01/01/2020
Active Region(s): India, Main, Readiness Guide, Australia - New Zealand, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Author: Chungha ChaRe-!magining Cities, a Seoul, Korea -based NGO and Council partner, recently published a research report on implementing digital twin technology. The report highlights benefits for both property developers and cities.What is a...
Article - 11/25/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
As we say goodbye to another year of the Barcelona based Smart Cities Expo World Congress, we reflect on what we saw, said and heard at what is clearly the world’s leading gathering of smart cities policy makers, practitioners and solution providers...
Article - 11/21/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
by Jason NelsonFor years, the Smart Cities Council has been advocating smart, shared infrastructure. We urge cities to install systems that can eventually be used for many city functions, even if they initially serve only one department. No...
Article - 11/19/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
by Nick SchifflerAt the Smart Cities Council, we work to keep our cities and our industry partners ahead of the game. As part of that effort, we’ve partnered with GovWin, a marketing intelligence solution that covers the federal, state and local...
Article - 10/23/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
by Adam BeckAs the Executive Director of the Smart Cities Council Australia, I work with cities throughout the Asia-Pacific region. I wanted to share with readers in other regions an issue that has become top-of-mind in Australia… and one that...
Article - 10/23/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The Smart Cities Council helps cities all over the world to build smart city action plans. For instance, I’m writing this post from Korea, where we are collaborating with the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization, an international association...
Article - 10/23/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
What smart cities were buying and planning in September 2019 by Nick Schiffler, Analyst, GovWin IQ As the smart cities movement continues to expand, municipal governments can learn from their peers about what they are buying, why they are...
Article - 09/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
A free work/play trip to Dublin: Enterprise Ireland to host North American smart cities for knowledge exchange Enterprise Ireland (EI) and the Smart Cities Council are partnering to bring North American smart cities to Dublin this December to...
Article - 09/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
All over the world, resiliency is moving to the top of the urban agenda. In response, the Smart Cities Council is partnering with leading organizations and governments to form a global network to accelerate community resilience. Individuals,...
Article - 09/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
If you are a city in North America, you are invited to provide information about your smart city projects in the Council’s Smart Cities Activator. You may have gotten an email inviting your city to participate. If so, follow the...
Article - 09/18/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Enterprise Ireland is partnering with the Smart Cities Council to accelerate Irish smart city progress. The Smart Cities Council is inviting North American cities to nominate projects from which Enterprise Ireland will select cities with bold...
Article - 09/18/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Inside Look: What cities were buying and planning in August 2019Companies looking to supply smart cities with products or services have plenty of opportunities available across the country. As more government agencies begin investing in the smart...
Article - 08/22/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
WeGO Partners with Smart Cities Council WeGO selects Smart Cities Activator to manage city engagement Seoul, Korea. August 7, 2019. World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) and Smart Cities Council (Council) have partnered to improve...
Article - 08/11/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
If you’ve read the recent criticisms of Baltimore by Donald Trump, you might be tempted to write the city off. In reality, Baltimore is on the brink of becoming a smart, sustainable city. Read on to learn the lessons it can teach others. And how you...
Article - 07/30/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Companies looking to supply smart cities with products or services have plenty of opportunities available across the U.S. As more governments begin investing in the smart cities movement, companies in the business-to-government (B2G) marketplace...
Article - 07/29/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
“We have spent a lot of time in Texas this summer, helping plan to make Texas communities resilient to natural disasters. Now, Texas needs to consider how to make its communities resilient to cybersecurity disasters as 22 small towns were recently...
Article - 07/29/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
By Steve Crout, Director, Policy & Resilience Program, Smart Cities Council Resilience – the ability to recover easily and quickly from difficulties – has been in the headlines this year for all the wrong reasons. More natural...
Article - 07/29/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The Chief Data Officer, (CDO), for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Carlos Rivero announced a state-wide survey of cities and counties in Virginia to support development of a statewide data governance policy. Recognizing the critical role of data...
Article - 07/18/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
By: Kok-Chin (KC) Tay, ASEAN Lead, Smart Cities Council After heading the Jakarta Smart City Office for four years and winning many accolades, Setiaji, Head of ICT, West Java Digital Province, Indonesia, recently took on the role as Head...
Article - 06/27/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
One of our Readiness Challenge Winners was Montgomery, AL. You can find information about their upcoming Readiness Workshop here (See Opportunity Calendar). The workshop will be held August 20, 2019.For the past several years, Montgomery has been...
Article - 06/27/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
The Philippines Smarter & Sustainable Cities (SSC) Taskforce is partnering with the Smart Cities Council and others to build a national initiative to bring the Council’s Readiness Program to the country’s cities.The coalition is co-chaired by...
Article - 06/26/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
It’s not hard to find smart city rankings based on past accomplishments. But market intelligence firm GovWin+Onvia has released a report that ranks U.S. cities (and counties) by their actual buying behavior from 2015-2019. SMART CITIES AND...
Article - 06/26/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
By Nick SchifflerCompanies looking to supply smart city products or services have plenty of opportunities available across the United States. As more government agencies begin investing in the smart cities sector, companies in the business-to-...
Article - 06/26/2019
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Readiness Cities
In many cities, one of the biggest sources of water waste is the city’s own water infrastructure. Aging infrastructure is often leaky infrastructure — an especially expensive problem since the water that’s lost is water that the city has already...
Article - 05/17/2019
Active Region(s): North America