The city of Canberra has announced its action plan for becoming a leading digital city. The Action Plan, which will be implemented using a staged approach over four years (2014-2018), sets out initiatives for Canberra to accelerate the development of a high growth digital economy. Continue reading →

Accenture research reveals that digital government is the path to deliver future public services’”driving higher levels of citizen engagement and satisfaction. The research evaluates the current implementation levels of digital services, the overall service delivery experience and citizens’ satisfaction levels across 10 countries’”Brazil, Germany, India, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom and the United States. Continue reading →

The British Standards Institution has recently published new guidance to help support UK cities in becoming smarter. Two publicly available specifications documents, Smart cities Vocabulary and Smart city framework, address the standardization gaps in the smart city market by providing a guidance framework and common language. Continue reading →

Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Smart City Commission have come together to create a Roadmap to a Smarter Birmingham. The Roadmap is a set of 39 actions that aim to influence the city’ s approach to creating a sustainable and better future for its citizens  by responding to challenges such as unemployment, the skills gap, health inequalities, effective mobility and carbon reduction targets. Continue reading →

A pan-European macroeconomic study titled “Big and open data In Europe: A growth engine or a missed opportunity?’ analyses how technologies have the potential to influence various aspects of the European society, about their substantial, long term impact on our wealth and quality of lifelife, but also about the new developmental challenges for the EU as a whole – as well as for its member states and their regions. Continue reading →

The report of the 2013 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) is a series of six chapters that examine the current barriers to open government and provides creative solutions for advancing open government efforts. Continue reading →

Manu Fernández, a strategic urban thinker and designer of innovative urban actions, published his presentation at at Re:Work Cities London conference, titled: “Smart cities of the future? It ´s already happening, but not in the way we are being told”. Continue reading →