The city of Schenectady, New York is moving ahead with its Smart City initiative. Mayor Gary McCarthy created the Mayoral Smart City commission to take advantage of new technology for superior delivery of government services Read More
The day Bob Bennett became Chief Innovation Officer in Kansas City, Missouri, he couldn’t have known he would be leading a team of approximately 50 people, nationwide, to develop a standard for smarter municipal dashboards Read More
The Finnish city of Tampere, the second largest in the country, recently announced its plans to invest six to ten billion Euros by 2030 in order to become a fully-integrated smart city. “Our plan is Read More
APEC, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, is calling for case study submissions from public and private sectors for the 2016 APEC Energy Smart Community Initiative (ESCI) Best Practice Awards. The award program focuses on successful efforts within Read More
A hydrogen fuel cell, the ideal alternative energy source for rail, is the key to the world’s first “hydrail”. It can travel almost 500 miles per day at speeds of up to 87 mph. It Read More
With over a dozen initiatives currently in place to promote a smarter community, awards from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Kauffman Foundation and a new partnership with US Ignite, Albuquerque has quickly become a smart city Read More
Urban mobility researchers at Florida State University (FSU) have formed a unique collaboration with the government and citizens of the City of Tallahassee, Florida. Relying primarily on the feedback of residents, they are examining how Read More
A new innovation partnership between the Washington, D.C. and Cisco was announced this week. Washington, D.C. will become the country’s first “Lighthouse City,” – a Cisco project combining pilot programs and government partnerships to create Read More
Information and intelligence about potential and existing citizens, clients, and companies has always been valuable to commercial real estate and its local municipalities. Today, more than ever, that value increases when integrated with a Smart Read More
Smart Cities are all the global rage these days. As with any emerging trend, it’s a bit of the Wild West with little consistency or agreement across international communities on definitions, frameworks or metrics to Read More
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