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The first day of the online event confirmed that the smart cities sector is well aware of its destination but it’s how it gets there that will be the problem.
In this edition, we focus on Dortmund in western Germany. With around 600,000 inhabitants, Dortmund is the eighth-largest city in Germany and the gateway to the Rhine-Ruhr region in the heart of Europe.
The University of Liverpool’s Stephen Finnegan explores the pros and cons of carbon offsetting and outlines Liverpool’s bid to become the UK’s first ’climate positive’ city by the end of 2020.
Reckitt is modelling a net zero programme that brings together businesses in support of climate action in its home city of Hull and will share learnings at Smart City Expo in Barcelona.
The Exeter Partnership aims to deliver outcomes in areas such as climate, housing, the city centre and health, with an emphasis on collaboration and innovation.
It marks another step in the emirate’s digital transformation journey and aims to strengthen collaboration between government entities and logistics industries.
Research by Nortal also reveals that they expect their digital experiences to mirror the slick, seamless interactions they get from private sector services.
Chatbot is designed around a family of expert domain fine-tuned models that have unique access to government databases and generates responses and explanations.
How San Antonio and Barcelona are using accessible and user-friendly data dashboards and portals to foster more openness and transparency in governance.
Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded 12 new US and Latin American cities in its certification programme for exceptional use of data in their operations.
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The principles have been drawn up because the City of Helsinki wants to use data and artificial intelligence responsibly and act as a trailblazer for others.
Scoring criteria for emissions reduction targets have been strengthened to align with science-based climate targets in this year’s A List from non-profit CDP.
New York City capital projects tracker provides a detailed view into projects, spanning critical infrastructure such as bridges, sewers, sanitation, and parks.
Anatolii Vovniuk, deputy CIO of Kyiv Council, explains how Kyiv.Digital evolved from a Covid-19 lifeline to an integrated services app used by 80 per cent of citizens.
Charlotte, West Palm Beach and The Underline in Miami will join the digital trust open source pilot focused on the use of digital technology in public places.
SmartCitiesWorld takes a closer look at the G20 Global Smart City Alliance’s Benchmarking Tool, and finds out from The Hague’s deputy mayor, digital innovation and smart cities advisor and cybersecurity lead how it can support cities in plotting their route to better smart city technology governance.
The town in North Carolina is expanding use of the Opendatasoft platform and launching a mobile app for citizens that centralises data from multiple platforms.
The site enables citizens to track progress on the #BuildBetterBMore initiative and is the City’s latest effort to use data tools to drive decision-making.
UserCentriCities has named the three finalists in the 2023 award that recognises the achievements made in developing user-centric services for citizens.
It will show the City’s approach to enabling housing production to achieve or exceed the provincial housing target of 285,000 new homes in the next 10 years.
The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard aims to increase transparency and allow the public to hold agencies accountable for executing agreed upon strategies.
A deep dive into environmental sustainability with Filipe Araújo, Vice-Mayor and City Councillor for Environment, Climate, Innovation and Digital Transition for the City of Porto
It includes a dashboard that shows the City’s expenditures, status of projects and a list of organisations that have received grant awards through the act.
More than 120 cities feature in CDP’s 2022 environmental action ranking, including cities from several countries in the global south for the first time.
Polco has raised $14m to release the next iteration of its data-driven civic participation platform and is partnering to transform how local governments measure and drive performance.
It aims to deliver more accessible citizen services as well as enable greater transparency through broader access to data and empower citizens with new tools.
Gregor Stühler, CEO and co-founder of Scoutbee, explains how by fostering innovation in the procurement industry, public and private sector companies can increase efficiency and create more transparency in supply chains.
The council-led project is using the untapped resource of unwanted clothing and textiles as a performance additive in asphalt on the New Zealand city’s roads.
The Well Performance Rating aims to provide a roadmap for organisations to demonstrate excellence in occupant experience and building performance across key indoor environmental quality indicators.
The principles-based approach establishes a plan for how the city will use technology and data, including the values that should guide decision-making on a day-to-day basis, and in the long-term.
Bloomberg-Sagol Centre for City Leadership at Tel Aviv University aims to strengthen local leadership across the country and deepen ties to the global community of innovative city leaders.
CDP-ICLEI’s revamped questionnaire refines the data collection process to focus on key criteria for climate change mitigation and adaptation and enables cities to track progress in areas such as science-based targets.
The research chair at Paris School of Economics behind the proposed new deal aim to provide decision-making tools to public and private actors in the city for sustainable infrastructures and urban planning policies.
The cities will receive technical advice, ad hoc support, and advisory input to address the pressing challenges related to the ethical and digital rights aspects of their local digital strategies and projects.
An expert panel of city practitioners will discuss the importance of citizen issues and engagement when adopting urban technology and how to implement an effective and digitally inclusive citizen engagement strategy.
Working with the BSV blockchain association, the Saudi Digital Academy will collaborate to provide learning and development resources for a variety of audiences, including government agencies.
The new report outlines a vision for urban tech in the city’s new administration including focusing on privacy and security, equity in the digital economy, and better management of the built environment.
The fifth edition of the worldwide competition recognises those cities which had designed the “boldest and most ambitious urban innovations” to emerge from the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The US city wants to reduce barriers to entry and make public contracting more accessible for small- and minority-led businesses and, in turn, improve equity.
This is among the findings of the Bosch Tech Compass survey, which also reveals that more than three in four people see technological progress as key to combatting climate change.
From that cycle of life, from the bacteria to us, development led to independence and a tipping point where it is more energy efficient to share and collaborate with other species. Humanity crossed that line of maturation as soon as tribes built their first cities collectively and as soon as the trade of goods started.
The ecological damage done by our society is a direct explanation of the harm done to humanity. More than ever, we are aware of the massive human destruction of nature. Witnessing the hottest three years on record, 2020-21 is the ‘wakeup’ call to consider humans as part of nature
Ecology is a science that studies the changing dynamics of Earth. But how can we move to-wards social ecology to take all part in caring for our common Oikos?
Citizens can use online surveys created, distributed and analysed by Zencity, to anonymously voice their opinions on neighbourhood safety and their sentiment towards police.
Glasgow Green Deal is a nine-year mission to transform the Cop26 host city’s economy to tackle the climate and ecological emergencies, involving citizens, communities and others.
Westminster City Council’s Aruj Haider on why technology must come second to the people it serves and the importance of translating the values of social inclusion into outcomes.
The open letter has secured more than 300 signatures to date from representatives of cities, smart city technology providers, NGOs and universities, with signatories pledging their support of the 10 principles within.
Resilient Cities Network’s Resilient Infrastructure Diversity and Equity tool is based on key criteria for social and racial equity, the creation of green jobs, and climate-readiness.
London’s chief digital officer, Theo Blackwell MBE, tells SmartCitiesWorld how the city’s Emerging Technology Charter is empowering businesses, local politicians, and communities to ask the right questions about next-gen technology.
Both cities will work closely together on new digital cooperation projects and policy sandboxes to create new economic opportunities for people and businesses.
London’s Emerging Technology Charter is a set of practical and ethical guidelines focused on openness, digital rights, use of data and sustainability of technology.
Trial was initiated as part of the Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement and set out to prove whether trade documents could be issued and verified digitally across two independent systems.
This whitepaper will provide a better understanding of the necessity for resiliency strategies, the challenges of implementing resiliency and digital tools to support cities and territories to build more resilient, sustainable and safe places to live.
The tool aims to ensure decision-making better reflects the diversity of the city and, as well as increase transparency, the mayor believes it will help to chart a new course for San Diego.
Noah Baars, cities analyst, and Laxmi Haigh, lead of editorial, Circle Economy, highlight why cities need to think about environmental and societal challenges in an integrated way.
The annual What Works Cities Certification commends excellence in using evidence and data to improve city services, increase transparency, and promote civic engagement.
In collaboration with Matthew James Bailey (leading authority, pioneer, and consultant in innovation, AI and AI Ethics, Smart Cities, IoT, and a renowned author), this brand new white paper focusses on the role played by artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the future experience of Smart Cities.
Latest research also reveals that a fifth of people had never heard the term before and 10 per cent either found the concept of smart cities confusing or didn’t know what it meant.
Research carried out by the World Economic Forum of the 36 “pioneer cities” identifies shortcomings in a number of areas, including data privacy, cybersecurity and accessibility.
