The Center for Business & Information Technologies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette seeks innovative thinkers and programmers of all types for the CajunCodeFest Smart Community Challenge March 29 – April 1. The goal Read More
The city of Saratoga, New York, IgniteU New York, and Empire State College are partnering to host Saratoga Go!, a competition that challenges individuals and small businesses to create mobile apps that will improve the Read More
Urban Roots, a London, Ontario startup, is dedicated to growing food in downtown areas without access to fresh food. Heather Barnes and Graham Bracken, two of the founders, were inspired by the Michigan Urban Farming Read More
Austin has recently taken a few big steps in its quest to become a smart city. In addition to a quick win as being one of five US metros awarded the Smart Cities Council Challenge Read More
In Chula Vista, California, sustainability has traditionally been a marker of leadership and success. In 2012, Chula Vista was the first jurisdiction to completely retrofit their full streetlight inventory to LED technology, resulting in significant Read More
The city of Louisville, Kentucky recently debuted a new service on the IFTTT platform – a web-based service where users can create chains of simple conditional statements, known as applets, that are triggered based on Read More
The city of Canberra, Australia has recently replaced 868 parking meters with 145 solar powered pay and display parking machines. Single-space meters served the city for more than 40 years, but these older parking meters Read More
Officials in the cities of Contra Costa County, California are moving ahead with their the Smart City Program despite the voters not having approved Measure X last October. Measure X was to have provided $65 Read More
The MIT Media Lab spin-out Changing Environments is hoping to accelerate the development of smart cities that use technology to solve urban challenges. “The idea is to bring simple technologies to the streets,” says CEO Read More
The University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology and the City of Memphis are partnering on a smart city initiative with a focus on research, development and deployment of projects that offer technological and analytically-based Read More
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