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The Smart Cities Readiness Guide is the first comprehensive, vendor-neutral smart city handbook for city leaders and planners. The Guide, released by the Smart Cities Council, enables city leaders to assess their current state of technology and its readiness to become a smart city. Continue reading
A well-balanced future city is one that can optimally use its resources and infrastructure to serve the needs of its citizens and businesses. Major trends in urbanization and demographics can create massive and complex problems for governments. A new report proposes a new holistic approach to address these challenges. Continue reading
“Smart Cities and the Internet of Everything: The Foundation for Delivering Next-Generation Citizen Services”, a White Paper published by IDC, discusses trends driving Smart City growth, the vision for the Smart City of the future, and the maturity cycle that cities can progress through to become a Smart City. Continue reading
As metropolitan areas across the globe embark on “smart city’ initiatives, new research points to areas of concern ‘” and provides recommendations to move forward. MIT Sloan Management Review blog published an article that summarizes the latest critic about Smart Cities movement. Continue reading
April Rinne, Chief Strategy Officer in Collaborative Lab, lays out the basic trends that underscore the concept of Shareable City, arguing that whether cities get their approach to Shareable Cities right will be path-critical to their future success. A Shareable City enables residents to efficiently and safely share all kinds of assets ‘“ from spaces to cars, skills and utilities ‘“ to create stronger, healthier and more connected communities. Continue reading
In 2011, Mayor Bloomberg introduced New York City’s first Digital Roadmap. Less than three years later, with 100% of objectives are complete, New York City’s Digital Leadership demonstrates the strides the City has made to date, driven by investments in infrastructure, education, open government, online engagement and technology sector support. Continue reading
Mischa Dohler, Chair Professor at King’ s College London and co-founder of Worldsensing, a company providing smart city sensing solutions, shared some hands-on experiences which he gained traveling around the world, knocking on the doors of cities and infrastructure providers, with the aim to generate business for Worldsensing. Continue reading
