Microsoft has created an interactive presentation of company’s CityNext strategy, a partner-led initiative that aims to empower cities to be more sustainable, prosperous, and economically competitive’”with a simplified approach. Continue reading
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Cassie Robinson, Strategic Designer at Doteveryone, blogs in IoTUK about how smart cities could use a visual language to make IoT technologies more visible to their citizens to encourage greater feedback. Continue reading
CityScore is a new initiative designed to inform the Mayor and city managers about the overall health of the City at a moment’s notice. Continue reading
The US Department of Transportation has pledged up to $40 million (funding subject to future appropriations) to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’ s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies ‘“ self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors ‘“ into their transportation network. Continue reading
This Wipro Ltd. white paper highlights the fact that similar to smart cities, the concept of smart buildings is rapidly emerging. Within this context, a variety of ICT based technologies must successfully interact to transform already existing buildings into smart buildings. Moreover, this report focuses mainly on the Gulf region and the problems faced by city planners there. Continue reading
This report is written by Innovation Centre Denmark (ICDK) in partnership with the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP). It illustrates solutions regarding the smart city context and their implementation on six global mega hubs: South Korea, Brazil, United States of America, China, Germany and India. Continue reading
New Orleans Gamifies the City Budget and its citizens can try their hands at being “mayor for a day’ with a new interactive website released by the Committee for a Better New Orleans.
The Big Easy Budget Game uses open data from the city to allow players to create their own version of an operating budget. Players are given a digital $602 million, and have to balance the budget ‘” keeping in mind the government’ s responsibilities, previous year’ s spending and their personal priorities. Continue reading