The city of St. Louis, Missouri and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS) are launching a smart cities technology integration pilot using sensor-based technologies designed to improve situational awareness and Read More
By Editor At Large Chelsea Collier and guest author Dustin Haisler In the past three-ish years since the Department of Transportation issued its Smart City Challenge, there has been a flurry of activity across U.S. Read More
Fresh International Gardens is a program run by Catholic Social Services in Mountain View – a neighborhood in northeast Anchorage, Alaska. They have recently been teaching refugees that are new to the state the necessary Read More
The City Council of San Diego, California unanimously approved a property tax incentive aimed at increasing urban gardening to alleviate food deserts and improve blighted areas in January of this year. The incentive reduces the Read More
The 20 finalists for the Canada Smart Cities Challenge were recently announced at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Akwesasne/Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Ontario and Quebec (Mohawk Nation) Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, Read More
The food systems research team at Colorado State University has received $1 million in support from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) which will be matched by several other organizations, for a total Read More
Fifteen British startups have flown to Australia as part of the latest Future Cities Mission with the goal of bringing back lessons on building smart cities and forming business partnerships, and investment and export opportunities. Read More
So two senators, an FCC Commissioner, and the DOT’s Under Secretary for Policy walk into the Bloomberg Government offices. If you think that sounds like the start of a really good story, you’re right. And Read More
Working in partnership, Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are exploring the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. For the experiment, Hitachi’s vehicle-to-everything (V2X) Read More
Montreal-based InnoCité MTL, an accelerator focused on smart city startups, is merging with the Centech incubator – created by the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), which is dedicated to hardware and advanced technologies startups. The Read More
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