Crowdsourcing isn’t just for start-ups anymore. Meet POLCO, an online and mobile application enabling policy crowdsourcing. Through the app, citizens can easily find relevant current policy proposals and city polls, subscribe to push notifications for Read More
Nashville realizes that the smart city race is a marathon rather than a sprint. That doesn’t mean they are resting on their laurels. Rather, they are taking a cue from others and approaching progress holistically. Read More
Since the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued the Smart City Challenge in 2016, US cities have been fast tracking their smart city efforts. Today, you see greater levels of activity on all fronts. There Read More
The city-parish of Lafayette, Louisiana is moving ahead with an open data initiative to give residents easy access to information regarding their city. Residents will be able to have online access to up-to-the-minute air quality Read More
There is a commonly held belief that smart people ask the right questions. Jonathan Ha and Barak Epstein with Smart Austin hosted a Meet Up on January 13 at Austin City Hall and did exactly Read More
A number of universities and colleges in the United States are offering training in the technology needed to run smart cities. Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has master’s degree program that Read More
City of Things is a collaborative project between the City of Antwerp, Flanders and imec which plans to turn Antwerp into a living lab in which businesses, researchers, local residents, and the city itself will Read More
The city of San Francisco has received $11 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop transportation technologies aimed at reducing traffic congestion and creating a safer and more efficient transportation system. “San Francisco Read More
We used to live in silos where the role of certain sectors was clear. Companies provided products and services to generate a profit. Nonprofits and NGOs performed selfless act to save the world. Cities silently Read More
The Town of Berwick recently announced that it will have the first smart town hall in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Working with Cisco, Hanatech and i-Valley, the new town hall will feature ultra-high-speed Read More
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