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France is looking to become a “global champion of digital technology” by honing in on one aspect of its tech scene: artificial intelligence. Some of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies are setting their sights on the capital city of Paris as...
Article - 11/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Traffic congestion is a major headache for many cities experiencing steady population growth, and several approaches are being tried to mitigate it. A new approach from the University of Nevada, Reno that involves traffic simulators is demonstrating...
Article - 07/26/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Transportation, Computing resources
Over just the past month, there’s been a major cyberattack in one city and the potential for a warning siren breach in another. The potential has always been there, but now the threats are becoming an increasingly real. And the consequences can be...
Article - 04/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management
A few weeks ago we published a story on Council Global Lead Partner Oracle's innovative strategy to provide a high-tech education program for high school students — as a way to help fill the talent gap in technology professions. A recently released...
Article - 12/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Telecommunications, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
In a former railway yard in southeast Paris, a €200 million project is underway to create a global hub for Internet development that will be the largest start-up incubator in the world. Dubbed Halle Freyssinet (or Station F), this is just one...
Article - 09/29/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Providing quality education to more than a million government schools has resulted in the government struggling to offer quality and holistic education to every child. Evidently, according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) 2014...
Article - 07/12/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: The Enablers, Computing resources, Visioning and roadmapping tools
If the explosion of data hasn’t reached your city yet, it will soon. Cities are generating more data than ever, raising questions about how to store and process it all — and keep it secure. And Oakland is a great example of why more cities are...
Article - 07/06/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer confined to the realm of science fiction. It’s becoming reality, already playing a role in transforming some corporate call centers. But as the technology grows, it could also radically shape the way that...
Article - 05/18/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
Data by itself doesn’t make a city smart. What makes a city smart is its ability to act on it immediately. The Internet of Things helps make data in the field a real-time tool, but you still need a strong backbone to carry and process it. That’s why...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
When your team can spend more time adding value to your organisation, as opposed to spending time ‘managing’ infrastructure, you have a real opportunity to see not only big savings, but also support a culture of innovation.This story of the City of...
Article - 04/04/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Computing resources
A smart city embraces the opportunities from harnessing smart citizens, and influencing the next generation of our workforce is critical. As digital transformation and automation continue to present challenges for businesses and government, it also...
Article - 03/21/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
Today's connected citizens prefer digital city services they can access by web or smartphone. And that's great news for cities, because it costs far less to provide services digitally. For instance, Britain’s 2012 Digital Efficiency Report found...
Article - 03/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America
Category: Computing resources, Interoperability
Data — and the ability to act on it in real-time — is the very bedrock of a smart city. But what’s an efficient way to build the data infrastructure you need? San Diego provides a great roadmap.San Diego is using its street lights as a springboard....
Article - 03/09/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for quick news takes from Smart Cities Council partners.IBM's cloud data center for the U.S. ArmyCouncil Lead Partner will build a $62 million cloud data center at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The project is the initial...
Article - 02/16/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Health and human services, Transportation, Computing resources
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
The release below describes a new app from Itron that underlines the mobile-first future of the smart city. Smartphone apps are nothing new, of course, but very few of them are intended for robust, mission-critical solutions. And even fewer are sold...
Article - 10/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
It's not uncommon for technology companies to align themselves with high schools, colleges and universities. The institutions can offer students opportunities to learn the skills they'll need to succeed in the high-tech field — and the companies...
Article - 08/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources
As city leaders know, today's connected citizens expect much more from their government in terms of convenient, efficient and fast delivery of services than ever before, whether it's getting a building permit or reporting a pothole. It's something...
Article - 08/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
We frequently recommend that cities partner with the technology companies that can best help them with planning and deploying their smart city projects. The cities benefit from technology and other resources they likely couldn't develop (or afford)...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources
The Internet of Things is widely seen as bringing new services, efficiencies and opportunities that will significantly change how commercial and industrial operations conduct their business—and help cities become smarter and more connected as they...
Article - 06/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
It was easy for Illinois to end up in its current situation. Ending up with one of the worst technology platforms of any state didn’t require any effort at all.But even if you’re 40 years behind the times, you shouldn’t give up. Illinois has decided...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Of that total dollar amount, public IT infrastructure spending is expected to account for $24.4 billion an increase of 14.1% through 2016 as cities and other governments and public agencies increasingly turn to it to help them manage and expand the...
Article - 04/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
Intel's Yogitech acquisition: ensuring functional safety for self-driving cars, IoT Council Associate Partner Intel has announced it has bought Yogitech, a small Italian company that specializes in functional safety for semiconductors. Yogitech will...
Article - 04/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Transportation, Computing resources, Data management
Public stadiums are a huge investment. Is your city getting its money’s worth? If you want a better return from your stadium investments, study the three approaches below and follow the links to more information. These are ideas you can take to the...
Article - 03/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Analytics, Computing resources
China has been taking smart cities seriously for years and is following an ambitious strategy to build them throughout the country. It doesn't have much choice. China's population of about 1.4 billion is expected to roughly double in 15 years, and...
Article - 03/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Computing resources
The Internet of Things (IoT) is practically becoming a buzzword — and according to Council Lead Partner IBM in about two out of three places that deploy it, it never achieves more than that. You read that right: It believes two-thirds of IoT...
Article - 03/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Interoperability
A post on the World Economic Forum (WEF) site introduces Martin Burt, founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, the microfinance organization that developed the Poverty Stoplight assessment tool now being used in 18 countries in Latin America, Asia...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity, Smart City Tools
Recognizing that digital devices and the Internet have become so essential in daily life – and that digital inequality can exacerbate educational and economic inequality -- the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop surveyed nearly 1,200 low and...
Article - 03/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity
In some ways, a city is the obvious place to organize an effort to benefit from smart technologies. Cities are big enough to have clout and small enough to get something done. Yet in other ways, city-scale efforts face challenges. For one thing,...
Article - 03/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Policy and leadership
Contributed by Imex SystemsMost governments have adopted a commitment to further transparency and accountability, which in turn has bolstered the movement to open data.One of the big challenges in opening up this data is that it resides in many...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
In a lot of cities, open data isn’t very open. The data may be available, but those who want to use it have to poke around what are often complicated websites to identify exactly the right data set and find their analytical tools that can make sense...
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Citizen engagement, Computing resources
A program to overhaul the way that tax returns are handled in Kentucky is netting big bucks for police and other vital services. But there’s also a reason for the public to like it: Those who have paid more than their fair share are getting their...
Article - 02/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Finance and procurement
Traffic congestion is a huge drain on the economy. The average American commuter wastes nearly $1,000 each year through lost time and wasted fuel caused by bad traffic. That’s a $160 billion annual drain on the U.S. economy, according to the latest...
Article - 12/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources
With the launch of its new cloud ecosystem, Council Lead Partner GE envisions a way for radiologists, clinicians and other medical professionals to collaborate on patient cases quickly and efficiently.The GE Health Cloud and the applications...
Article - 12/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Data management
Tear down city silos! That’s usually the first piece of advice city leaders get when they launch efforts to make their cities smarter. Integration and cohesiveness is at the heart of every smart city. So how do you make that happen?Two Council...
Article - 12/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Computing resources, Interoperability
GE has just set up a demonstration street light in New York that talks to passers-by. Yes, it's a bit of a gimmick — in actual deployments, the street lights will talk to your smartphone, not to you in person.But it's a valuable gimmick. First, it's...
Article - 12/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Interoperability, Examples and case studies
The latest change in foreign direct investment (FDI) norms linked to the construction sector might help attract private players to the government’s ambitious smart city project. Since the Centre has allocated only Rs 500 crore per city under the...
Article - 11/15/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Policy and leadership, Financing and procurement tools
New "collaborative" robots are taking work away from humans, as you'll read below. Unless you want to see your city's unemployment rate rise, you'll want to take steps to stem the tide. Especially since the best fight-back tactic is something you...
Article - 11/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Computing resources
Poverty. Infectious disease outbreaks. Preparations for natural disasters. All are big problems that may not seem to have answers.But a new effort helps to show governments of all levels that they may already have the answers. The key is to pull...
Article - 11/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Analytics, Computing resources, Data management
As India progresses towards building Smart Cities, we at Smart Cities Council India spoke to Jatin Singh, CEO, of India's first private weather forecasting company – Skymet, about the tools required for good weather forecasting and action plan in...
Article - 11/02/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Computing resources, Interoperability
The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi had officially launched the 'DigiLocker' service under its flagship 'Digital India' campaign in late June, while the soft launch of the service was done earlier in February 2015.The service...
Article - 10/29/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Interoperability
It wasn’t long ago that the job of a Chief Information Officer involved managing rooms of expensive hardware that served their organization’s data needs. A new survey of state CIOs finds, however, that more and more of that hardware is vanishing...
Article - 10/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Finance and procurement
Malaysia's Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has proposed to invest $ 30 billion in two urban development and housing projects in India, as per a statement from the Ministry of Urban Development.Malaysia's Minister of Works, Haji...
Article - 10/16/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Waste management, Computing resources, Financing and procurement tools
(Image source: Sany India website)China's construction equipment major, also the sixth largest heavy equipment manufacturer in the world, has committed to invest up to $ 5 billion in India.A delegation of Sany group and Chinese businessmen led by...
Article - 10/15/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources
The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has moved proposals before the finance ministry’s Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) for seeking financial assistance from France and Germany for funding its five-year Smart City mission.The ministry's...
Article - 10/11/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Payments, Computing resources, Financing and procurement tools
Madhya Pradesh seems to be all set to receive a deluge of funding from Japanese firms in core infrastructure projects following a 10-day trip by the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to Japan and South Korea.During his visit, the minister met...
Article - 10/11/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Payments, Computing resources, Finance and procurement, Financing and procurement tools
(Image source: Microsoft)The future growth of the IT industry lies in the new service lines which include – the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, social media, mobile systems, big data analytics and Cloud based applications, states the latest...
Article - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Economic development, Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management, Interoperability
Despite a call from the highest levels of federal government to migrate to the cloud, there’s no question that the public sector has lagged behind the private sector when it comes to actually making the move.But as a new express lane to the cloud...
Article - 10/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Data management
As part of its initiative to educate and encourage the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to take active part and prepare a smart city plan under the government's amibition '100 Smart Cities' mission, the urban development ministry will host an event called...
Article - 10/01/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Responsibility areas, Computing resources, Visioning and roadmapping tools
In making an investment in a new city initiative, it’s easy to focus on the financial aspects: how much it costs and how much it’s likely to save. A growing number of cities and even some technology companies are finding there’s something even more...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy and leadership
A new suite of tools to improve health care analytics could dramatically improve health care, both by bringing new discoveries to market faster and by better treating patients with chronic conditions.Council Lead Partner IBM is expanding its health...
Article - 09/11/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Analytics, Computing resources
A new speedy, wireless backbone for the Internet of Things (IoT) is just around the corner, and Council Lead Partner Verizon says it’s committed to working with technology leaders to bring it to cities as fast as possible.The new 5G wireless...
Article - 09/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity
(L-R) Pratap Padode, Founder & Director, Smart Cities Council India; Kalyani Patil, Mayor, KDMC; E Ravendiran, Commissioner, KDMC; Apeksha Patil, Mayor, Ulhasnagar Municipal corporation; Praful Shah, President, MCHI-Kalyan DombiviliSmart...
Article - 08/28/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
Long lines, the possibility of being turned away at a polling station, old equipment and other problems continue to plague the voting process around the world. But it doesn't have to be that way. One company is working to make voting simpler, more...
Article - 08/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Cities around the world are getting better at many things, but safety on the roads is not one of them. Already, 1.24 million people are killed on roads worldwide each year. And as cities grow larger and more people inhabit them, traffic fatalities...
Article - 08/12/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Computing resources
It’s a hacker’s world. Hackers are getting more innovative while many IT departments are falling behind, according to a new study. But the news isn’t all grim. The same report finds that education and available technology could allow lagging...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Computing resources, Data management, Security and privacy
"CRG doesn't build one-off applications such as standalone parking apps that don't connect to anything else ... and inevitably become stale," explained Dr. Gregory G. Curtin in announcing Civic Resource Group International's new CivicConnect™...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Computing resources, Connectivity
Schools, like cities, generally operate on tight budgets. So, how does a school efficiently and cost-effectively teach students at campuses miles apart?Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland had to deal with that question. Its local campuses are...
Article - 08/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Telecommunications, Computing resources, Connectivity
Imagine a day where people could instantly harness and interact with the abundance of data around them. What if a bus stop became a source of real-time departure updates? Or if a pothole on your walk to work became a platform for good citizen...
Article - 07/17/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Citizen engagement, Computing resources, Connectivity
Council Lead Partner Ooredoo's new Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management System (EMR) works through a dedicated connection to give Qatar's healthcare community a way to efficiently handle patient information. The service is intended to...
Article - 07/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Computing resources, Connectivity