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As we reported a few weeks ago from our Smart Cities Forum with Consult Australia, the smart cities standards dialogue in Australia is heating up. And rightly so. The pioneering work of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia has been...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Those of you who've heard me rant in person or in prose know that I hammer the need to build integrated, cross-cutting smart cities. No city, not even the wealthiest, can afford to build piecemeal, single-purpose applications department by...
Article - 12/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Yinchuan is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China. It has an area of 4,467 km2 (1,725 mi2) and a population of 2 million. In recent years, it has become one of the world’s top smart cities.I recently met with the Vice Mayor of...
Article - 01/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Finance and procurement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership, SCC Spotlight Cities
-Niranjan Zanzmera, Mayor, Surat Municipal CorporationThe city of Surat has long been known as the diamond polishing hub of the world, but there are other facets that have led the city to shine - including being one of the cleanest cities in the...
Article - 10/11/2015
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
London and Bangkok are at the top of MasterCard’s latest Global Destinations Cities Index. Just like last year, the year before that and the year before that. In fact, they’ve always topped the list. But instead of stopping there, the annual ranking...
Article - 06/05/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Payments, Transportation, Citizen engagement, Interoperability, Policy and leadership
An effort launched this week by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) wants to get city leaders from the U.S. and abroad to identify standardization priorities for smart and sustainable cities. The Smart Cities Council is a founding...
Article - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
This article contains an important reminder. If we continue to build smart city initiatives as one-off, piecemeal, standalone projects, we'll end up with "a multitude of smart islands in a dumb city." If that happens, "the nirvana of a total city...
Article - 04/30/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Definitions and overviews, Interoperability, Policy and leadership