2021

The cities of Berlin, Paris, London, and New York recently launched an open innovation competition – The Creative Cities Challenge – seeking solutions that will help their cultural and creative sectors recover from the pandemic. Read More

The city of Florence, Italy is working on the creation of “smart zones,” which will combine data from its tram lines, city streets, and pedestrian crossings. Towards that end, sensors have been installed in trams Read More

The city of Tampa, FL released its first resilience roadmap – ‘Resilient Tampa’ – which introduces four Chapters, 13 Goals, and 58 initiatives aimed at better preparing Tampa for the known and unknown shocks and Read More

Rome, Italy will start conducting three smart city trials this month with the aim of reducing transportation pollution, optimizing public transport, and eliminating accidents at pedestrian crossings. The trials will be run by Envision, using Read More

The City of Ontario, Southern California is initiating its infrastructure renewal program – “Smart Ontario” – to improve safety, efficiency, and connectivity. The city expects to see a savings of US$75 million in utility and Read More

Singapore’s national water agency – PUB – will soon start to deploy Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones to monitor water quality and water activities at six of its 17 reservoirs. The drones are Read More

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will be increasing its purchases of electric buses by 33% this year – from 45 to 60. The MTA has the ongoing mission to transform its 5,800 buses Read More

The City of Des Moines, Iowa, will be performing a legacy system upgrade of its permitting, licensing, and inspection system with new software – EnerGov, made by Tyler Technologies. EnerGov  will modernize the current system Read More

Brussels, Belgium has launched a citizen science project on air quality – CurieuzenAir – which will involve 3.000 citizens mapping the air quality levels across the Brussels-Capital Region. The project is part of the Brussels Read More

Innovate Cities – a not-for-profit network of innovators working towards more inclusive, livable, and sustainable cities – has recently launched in Canada. Innovate Cities focuses on five key issues: building resilience, integrating capabilities, accelerating commercialization, Read More