The Smart Cities Council has selected Louisville/Jefferson County, KY.; Birmingham, AL; Cary, NC; Las Vegas, NV and the state of Virginia to participate in the 2018 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Grant. Each will receive a Read More
A one-year, $400,000 (over Rwf344.8 million) research project – ‘Urban Governance and Turning African Cities’ – has been implemented in in six African cities in Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa and Angola. Led by Read More
The Australian Government has released details of all 52 projects funded $28.5 million AUS under the first round of its Smart Cities and Smart Suburbs program. 176 applications were received, and a second funding round Read More
The Singapore University of Technology and Design’s (SUTD) Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities is partnering with the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), in Switzerland, to create a system of guidelines to be Read More
The San Jose Smart City Vision has the stated goal of making San José America’s most innovative city by 2020. The city is looking a three factors to achieve this goal: core values, key goals, Read More
The City of Minneapolis has joined the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact – an international protocol that seeks to develop food systems based on the principles of sustainability and social justice. Almost 160 cities have Read More
The University of Maryland, College Park, is partnering with The University of Baltimore, the Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University, and Morgan State University to investigate how to turn Baltimore into a Read More
Usually smart city articles are about technology and chock full of details about amazing advances in big data, machine learning, sensors, cloud technology and gigabit networks. In Kansas City, Missouri they go a step beyond. Read More
The City of London, Ontario, Canada, has begun developing an Urban Agriculture Strategy using input from residents. Working with Evergreen, a Canadian charity which works on building community programs, they aim “to help the municipality Read More
The City of Melbourne, Australia created the Resilient Melbourne Citymart Challenge with the goal of finding creative, feasible, and impactful ideas to help to reduce transport congestion, and ideally also make the experience of travel Read More
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