In this latest episode of “Revolution”, Brian Solis features Jay Nath, who serves as chief innovation officer for the City of San Francisco (SF). Nath works with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to embrace the city’ s vast pool of technology startups and entrepreneurs in order to drive more innovation within the government. Continue reading
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Innovative Cities & Regions
Smart Cities can change the urban way of life in Africa providing safer neighbourhoods, very low traffic-congestion, a low carbon environment and houses that run themselves. All these futuristic-sounding innovations will be available not at some point in the far future but in the next five years according to the upcoming Smart Cities summit in South Africa. Continue reading
A one-day conference is going to be held tomorrow (May 4) on Planning for Smart Cities and Smart Regions of the Future. The conference is a free event and it is being held at the Engineering Building (pictured here) of NUI Galway Continue reading
Economists with salary data provider PayScale compiled a list of the 10 best cities in the U.S. for finding high-paying IT jobs with tech startups. They looked at the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. and determined the number of startup IT jobs available per capita in each location. Continue reading
The south-east Asian country has embarked on an ambitious “Smart Thailand” project in order to increase its competitiveness on a regional as well as on a global level, and make ICT progress easier. The project is part of a national ICT framework called “ICT2020”, a development blueprint affecting all parts of the economy, especially the government sector. The project consists of two main parts: a “smart network” project Continue reading
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says cities need to innovate just as much as corporations’”and offers prescriptions for how to do it. In an article in McKinsey&Co “What Matters” magazine, he mentions three key approaches that have helped him to get around challenges to drive innovation forward: Continue reading
The Australian consulting firm 2thinknow has released its annual list of the most innovative cities in the world. It is the world’ s largest city classification and ranking with 331 benchmark cities classified, and top 125 cities ranked in 2011. Continue reading