Data and analytics are the technical fuel of smart cities. From air quality sensors to surveillance cameras, municipal leaders are deploying smart city technology to collect and analyze data with the hope of enhancing city Read More
America’s smart city journey, which is almost a decade-long*, has been defined by rapid evolution on several fronts. Of course technology has advanced, but what is more interesting (at least to me) is how cross-sector Read More
Cross-sector collaboration is a common theme in smart cities. Implementing successful smart city partnerships require a complex level of engagement between government, industry, academia, and community advocates. While this is easily demonstrated with a Venn Read More
During the last two days of February 2023, Tokyo hosted its first global smart cities event, City-Tech Tokyo, bringing the ideal smart city model to life. Thousands of global participants from government, academia and industry Read More
While the topic of smart cities is vast and broad, the one thing that almost everyone who works in the sector can agree upon is that there is no one accepted definition of a smart Read More
Smart city enthusiasts like to use information to measure progress. Of course this is mostly focused on ICT-enabled activities that track everything from air quality to energy usage across a municipal system. Apart from analytical Read More
The Smart CIties Connect Conference & Expo serves as a great benchmark to note the progress for smart cities across the U.S. (and Canada!) This past September 26-29, government, industry, academic and civic leaders gathered Read More
Public safety success stories all have one thing in common – the ability for trained personnel to have access to the right information at the right time. Seamless, streamlined communication is critical when lives are Read More
Accelerating digital access for marginalized communities has been one of the few positive outcomes from the tragic COVID-19 pandemic. Smart city enthusiasts understand all too well that access to the Internet and digital services is Read More
The topic of smart cities is well known for its complexity. Converging people, policy, hardware, software, connectivity, data and analytics across public and private sectors can be overwhelming. So as a smart cities generalist, I Read More
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