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How smart cities can create a road map to reduce risk and improve resiliency
TechRepublic - Teena Maddox
A new EWI study gives guidance to urban leaders on how to create an effective and practical smart city. More than three-quarters of the earth's …
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India election 2019: Have 100 'smart cities' been built?
BBC News - By Vineet Khare
India's urban population is growing rapidly and is expected to reach 600 million in the next decade. Its cities are already creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure and inadequate public services.
Business Technology
Department for Transport launches future of urban mobility plan
computerweekly.com - www.computerweekly.com
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published its strategy for the future of urban mobility, including priorities for 2019, the launch of a …
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Smart City projects on Modi govt's agenda to woo middle class
business-standard.com - www.business-standard.com
Tenders worth Rs 1.31 trillion cleared, work to be completed over five years
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Building Smart Cities
The Atlantic - VMware
Can IoT transform urban environments into efficient, interactive smart cities? Yes—as long as governments put the right infrastructure in place. With populations growing faster than their public infrastructure
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Where Next For Smart Cities?
govtech.com - by Dan Lohrmann
The global buzz surrounding Smart Cities has been growing steadily louder over the past few years. Here are a few intriguing quotes on the subject of …
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launches smart city initiative as race to create smart cities in China heats up
thedrum.com - Shawn Lim
JD.com is looking to increase its efforts in helping cities in China become a smart city by combining its work on big data, artificial intelligence …
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The Amazing Ways Carnival Cruises Is Using IoT and AI To Create Smart Cities At Sea
Forbes - Bernard Marr
Even before you sail away on a Carnival cruise, the company operates more than 100 ships that travel to 740 destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Australia; you get to experience
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The trouble with smart cities
Axios - Erica Pandey
Giants like Alphabet, GE and Cisco are building tech that they claim can transform a city stuck in the past into a futuristic paradise, but their …
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Dror Benshetrit is Joining We Company as Co-Founder of New Smart Cities Initiative
core77.com - Alexandra Alexa
After recently expanding into co-living with WeLive and education with WeGrow, the We Company—formerly known as WeWork—has announced it will also be …
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Shanghai Launches Smart City Program with MXC Blockchain Startup
newsbtc.com - Guest Author
China has a strong record of spearheading technological innovation, and it appears to be continuing the trend with its interest in blockchain and IoT …
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Future Cities Canada launches network to establish 'excellence' in open smart cities
mobilesyrup.com - By Shruti Shekar@shruti_shekar Mar 20, 2019 9:10 PM EDT2019-03-20EDT21:10:16-04:002019-03-20EDT15:11:11-04:00 0 comments
Future Cities Canada, the national initiative to accelerate innovation and transform cities, has launched a new platform called Community Solutions …
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pushes further into smart cities, offering social credit and AI-powered tools to local governments in China
scmp.com - Meng Jing
The company’s services can be used by local governments to build social credit databases, AI-powered traffic infrastructure and other smart transport …
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China Trade Deal, Smart Cities, College Testing (Podcast)
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Sarah McGregor, Bloomberg News U.S. Economic Policy Team Leader, discusses concerns from some U.S. negotiators that China is pushing back against …
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Racine, Foxconn strike smart cities deal
biztimes.com - Arthur Thomas
Foxconn’s Wisconsin subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Racine outlining a partnership for the development of smart …
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The We Company is launching a “smart cities” project and hired a Google executive to lead it (Quartz)
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Smart Cities Aren’t Just IoT, But Also Opioid Response, Transit, Streets, & People
cleantechnica.com
Published on March 18th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard 0 March 18th, 2019 by Michael Barnard Smart cities continue to receive global attention. Alphabet (nee …
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The We Company is launching a “smart cities” project and hired a Google executive to lead it
Quartz - Simone Stolzoff
The company behind the WeWork real-estate empire is starting a “future cities” initiative and has hired former Waze and Google executive Di-Ann Eisnor to run it. According to the We Company, Eisnor and
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Leveraging Blockchain to Secure Smart Cities
cioreview.com - CIO Review
The core concept of smart cities is the utmost use of the internet and other digital tools to connect facilities and people residing in the city. …
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What's Holding Smart Cities Back?
scientificamerican.com - Amit Nisenbaum
With the global population set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, two thirds of which will be living in cities, according to United Nations projections, …
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ASU, Amazon open Smart City Cloud Innovation Center in Scottsdale
ktar.com - By KTAR.com
PHOENIX — Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services partnered to open the Smart City Cloud Innovation Center in Scottsdale last week. “It’s …
EnergySolutions
Journal Times documents Foxconn winners (including Prof. Ahmed)
uwgb.edu - Sue Bodilly
The Journal Times reported on second-round winners of the Smart Cities-Smart Futures contest, including UW-Green Bay Assistant Prof. Md. Riaz Uddin …
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Community input is as important to Baltimore's smart city planning as tech
technical.ly - Community input is as important to Baltimore’s smart city planning as tech By Stephen Babcock / reporter
Baltimore was famously the city where the first gas street lamp in America was lit for the first time. About 200 years later, inside a room …
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Smart Cities Are Going Green Because It Costs Less
Forbes - Miriam Tuerk
Our cities are getting smarter. Look around any modern metropolis, and you’ll see hundreds of Smart devices. Devices that provide better convenience, increase our safety, enable connectivity anywhere,
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Building South African smart cities
itweb.co.za - Vineshia Petersen
With the major governmental push toward digital transformation to align SA with the developments of Industry 4.0, president Cyril Ramaphosa has …
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Foxconn announces second-round winners of Smart Cities-Smart Futures
journaltimes.com - Michael Burke
STURTEVANT – Foxconn Technology Group announced winners of the second round of the Smart Cities—Smart Futures competition at the SC Johnson iMET …
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Making Smart Cities Effective, Cleaner and Safer
Entrepreneur - Floyd DCosta
Using blockchain technology, it is possible to not only make smart cities more operationally efficient, but also cleaner and safer Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Smart are
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How to Protect Smart Cities From Cyber Attacks Using Blockchain
Entrepreneur - Floyd DCosta
Smart city networks are ever expanding and require security solutions that can be just as scalable without compromising on quality or efficiency Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their
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Connected LEDs light the road for smart cities
embedded.com - www.embedded.com
Signify is designing a streetlight supporting 5G, and Telensa has started an AI pilot, but for both, LED streetlights remain the brunt of the …
Aboriginal Canadians
Saskatoon web portal project aims to link Indigenous youth to services
mbcradio.com - Brendan Mayer
The City of Saskatoon is working to break the cycle of Indigenous youth incarceration with ConnectYXE. ConnectYXE is the city’s final proposal for the …