MIT Real Time Rome project utilizes data gathered, in real time and at an unprecedented scale, from cell phones and other wireless technologies, to better understand the patterns of daily life in Rome, and to illustrate what ubiquitous connectivity in an urban environment looks like. Continue reading →

The report, “Imagine a Toronto….Strategies for a Creative City” summarises the findings of a project which aimed to produce a strategy that addresses the current needs of Toronto’s creative economy, promotes its future growth and leverages these creative assets to enhance economic and social opportunity. Continue reading →

In this book, editors Ahmed Bounfour (University of Paris XI, France) and Leif Edivinsson (University of Lund, Sweden) have brought together twenty two contributions on intellectual capital. The papers focus on measuring and managing the intellectual capital of communities, cities, regions, and nations. Continue reading →

Intelligent communities and cities belong to an emerging movement targeting the creation of environments that improve cognitive skills and abilities to learn and innovate. They are environments that enable superior cognitive capabilities, creativity, and innovation, which are created from combinations of individual, collective, and artificial intelligence. Continue reading →

The Global Digital City Network is an international organisation between ‘knowledge based’ industrial cities. It is designed to promote the competitiveness of member cities, leveraged by synergy effect through the exchange of information and technologies. Continue reading →

Singapore has launched a new 10-year, $3.2 billion Master Plan, that will propel the nation into 2015 and beyond, with a line-up of activities and goals that spell benefits for the people, businesses and the global community. The vision is to turn the country into an Intelligent Nation and Global City, powered by ICT. Continue reading →

The project ‘Intelligent Cities: Innovative cities and competitiveness for sustainable development’, supported by INTERREG IIIC – South Zone, has as main objective to formulate an urban strategy for the creation of ‘innovation hubs’ (spaces of innovation). Continue reading →