The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), at its eighteenth session in May 2015, selected smart cities and infrastructure as one of the two priority themes for the intersessional period 2015’“2016. This report presents key urbanization trends and their links to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Continue reading
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Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities
This report, produced by Hypercat, is one of the outcomes out of thirty-seven workshops across six domains bringing together over 300 experts from a wide range of industries, academia and government. These workshops were used to crowdsource information and captured a wealth of information on how existing and future technologies, digital systems and/or other smart city solutions and approaches could transform Old Oak & Park Royal into a global leading location where people would want to live, work and visit. Continue reading
The First Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Smart Urban Development and Blue Growth Opportunities for Cities, Communities and Islands in the Mediterranean, will take place at Limassol’ s Trakasol Cultural Centre from April 14 to 16.
The focus of the Conference is primarily on coastal small and medium-sized cities and communities in the Mediterranean. Continue reading
New Orleans Gamifies the City Budget and its citizens can try their hands at being “mayor for a day’ with a new interactive website released by the Committee for a Better New Orleans.
The Big Easy Budget Game uses open data from the city to allow players to create their own version of an operating budget. Players are given a digital $602 million, and have to balance the budget ‘” keeping in mind the government’ s responsibilities, previous year’ s spending and their personal priorities. Continue reading
The German “Smart City Standardization Roadmap” gives a snapshot of the current situation and insight into international developments. Its purpose is to create transparency, and give all interested parties the possibility to take part in standardization activities relating to urban planning. Continue reading
For San José, USA, becoming a “smart city’ means that game-changing technologies and data-driven decision-making will drive continuous improvement in how the city serves its community, and promotes concrete benefits in safety, sustainability, economic opportunity, and quality of life for our constituents. Continue reading
In his latest article Prof. Rob Kitchin, on “The planner’ elaborates how urban big data enables a highly granular, longitudinal system, whole system understanding of a city system or service. Continue reading