Portland State University is investing $3 million over the next three years in The PSU Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative and the The PSU Digital City Testbed Center. The new research centers will focus on Read More
The DC Office of the Chief Technology Office (OCTO) invites area application developers and entrepreneurs to compete in GigabitDCx – a public competition that will focus on the development of next-generation, high-performance applications in the Read More
A new $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help Arizona State University launch a graduate research training program called “Citizen Centered Smart Cities and Smart Living.” The program will start with Read More
VirtuPort’s Cyber Saber Hackathon 2018 is scheduled to take place November 6th and 7th in Riyadh with more than 100 Saudi students expected to participate. The students – from various public and private universities – Read More
The Erie Innovation District (EID) in Pennsylvania has invested $50,000 in each of the nine companies that will participate in its first accelerator program, ‘The Secure Erie Accelerator,’ that seeks to bring technology-driven companies – Read More
Bloomberg Philanthropies recently announced that the cities of Seattle, Washington and Atlanta, Georgia are the first of twenty winners of its American Cities Climate Challenge. The two-year acceleration program includes a technical assistance and support Read More
A number of autonomous vehicle tests are currently taking place in the US. Two of these are Columbus, Ohio and Babcock Ranch, Florida. The city of Columbus has partnered with May Mobility – an Ann Read More
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced a five-year, $5.25 million US initiative to take a citizen-centered approach to studying autonomous vehicles (AV) and how the technology will affect urban mobility. The Read More
Google is working with with Aclima – a San Francisco environmental sensor company – to expand their expand their environmental sensor network globally. Air quality sensors from Aclima will be installed in fifty of its Read More
Officials from the city of Brooklyn, New York recently announced joint sponsored legislation to expand urban agriculture and maintain community shared space at Ashford Street Abundant Garden. The new legislation will insure the Department of Read More
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