Smart Cities, Smart Planet
Three Ways Smart City Technology Can Impact Climate Change As the planet emerges from a very sweaty summer, there is no denying the physical manifestation of climate change. In fact, Nasa clocked July 2023 as Read More
Articles by Chelsea Collier
San Antonio Succeeds By Putting People at the Center of Smart Cities
An Interview with Emily Binet Royall, Smart City Administrator, Innovation Office, City of San Antonio While the term “smart cities” sounds glamorous enough to grab global headlines, those who work in this field know that Read More
AI Is Here. Is Your City’s Data Governance Policy Ready?
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
Not Your Average Report: An Overview of Enabling and Sustaining Connected Communities Rooted in Solving Societal Challenges
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
5 Projects Prove Colorado is Committed to Smart Cities
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
City-Tech Tokyo Shows the World How to Build a Sustainable, Smart City
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
How Does ChatGPT Define a Smart City?
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 50 Award Winners Demonstrate True Growth in Smart City Implementations
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
Innovating With Cities To Create A Better World – Takeaways From Smart Cities Connect Fall 2022
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 & Emergency Response Require Need-Based, Real-Time Communication
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