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White paper by EPRI: The Role of Digital Utilities in Smart Cities

This white paper, entitled The Role of Digital Utilities in Smart Cities: Leveraging Utility Information and Communication Technologies,  has been recently published by Electric Power Research Network (EPRI). It describes   a framework for how the digital utility can provide additional value for customers by leveraging existing ICT systems for greater public benefit.

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Paper: Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities

This paper “Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: opportunities and challenges”, written by Sarah Giest, tries to identify opportunities and challenges around big data use in the context of smart cities, and more specifically, for mitigating carbon emissions. The paper has an open access license.

 

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Guiding Planners to the Connected Cities of the Future

This report is the first ICT industry publication designed for city decision makers including CTOs, CIOs and technology advisors that provides an overview of the network-enabled technologies to have the greatest impact on the evolving Smart City. Developed by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), it aims to help city planners know what’s on the horizon for tomorrow so that they can start developing their technology vision today.

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A report by Atos on Smart City Economics

Smart City Economics: A multi-sided approach to financing the smart city is a position paper published by Atos, the european IT services corporation specialised in cloud, big data services etc. The main issue that this paper attempts to deal with is whether there are better ways of funding innovative projects that do not rely on tax revenue and do not depend on the whims of external partners. Continue reading