Find here four presentations on Smart Cities, which were prepared in the context of the Digital Birmingham programme and presented at the programme’ s Stakeholders Meeting on 26th January.
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Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities
The Intelligent Community Forum just named its 2012 Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the year in Honolulu, Hawaii. The ICF’ s Top Seven are communities that provide a model of economic Continue reading
Boyd Cohen, LEED AP, climate strategist, presents a ranking of the world’ s smartest cities, from New York to Hong Kong. Pundits and industry insiders expect smart cities to become a sizable market, with projections of nearly $40 billion spent on smart-cities technologies by 2016. Continue reading
Throwing technology at cities will not abate their problems, especially in India. In existing cities like Mumbai, where people are overflowing and 60% of the population lives in slums, the answer will lie in using “people as infrastructure”. If the values that governments seek are Continue reading
Every year IBM predicts the future of technology via the IBM 5 in 5 initiative’“our forecast of five innovations that will help transform aspects of modern life, making the planet smarter, within the next five years. We assess not just the availability of a new technology but also the likelihood of its large-scale adoption. This year’ s predictions: Continue reading
Welcome to Google X, the secret lab, where 100 beyond-your-imagination ideas are working their way towards realization; in the imaginary world of Google X, robots go to work instead of you, refrigerators order groceries, your car drives to your destination Continue reading
Adam Greenfield, director of the urban systems design practice ‘˜Urbanscale’ , was present at the Smart Cities Expo, which took place in Barcelona from 29 November to 2 December 2011. In his interview, he refers to the importance of open-data for the creation Continue reading