Singapore’ s Infocomm Development Authority announced the competition Data in the City: Visualisation Challenge, which is based on open government datasets with the objective to create visualisations Continue reading
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“Human Needs not Apply’ is a video by CGP Grey that predicts automation and smart systems will make human work obsolete. It was presented on Youtube on 13 August 2014 and within 10 days received almost 2 million views. This view is in line with the Economist estimation that almost half of jobs Continue reading
Neal Peirce wrote this week (Citiscope) about the new standard to measure the performance of cities. The new standard, known as ISO 37120, was produced by the International Organisation for Standardisation Continue reading
In this video, Motley Fool analyst Eric Bleeker talks with Cisco’s Chris White about the Internet of Things, smart cities, and mainly Barcelona. Referring to lessons learnt from Barcelona, White points out Continue reading
A new publication of the Directorate General of Regional and Urban Policy underlines the main elements of smart specialisation as strategy guiding the Europe’s growth agenda. “Smart specialisation is a strategic approach to economic development through targeted support to research and innovation. Each region, whether it be strong or weak, high-tech or low-tech, goes through Continue reading
The Smart Specialisation approach is a significant policy innovation, operationalising Europe 2020 objectives and incorporating social and non-technical innovation, so the potential contribution of experiences in Territorial Cooperation programmes gains a new relevance. Continue reading
The UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, published the Smart Cities Background Paper.The report considers the enormous challenges facing cities, the size of the opportunity afforded by the focus being given,worldwide, to addressing those challenges Continue reading