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India: Integrated Command Centres in all 100 smart cities

Since its launch, a total of Rs 27,234 crores have been released by the government to 100 cities The government will reportedly set up Integrated Command Centres in all 100 smart cities by August 15 this year. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that work has already started in almost all government-funded projects under…

Ocean Renewables: Powering the Blue Economy

Offshore renewables can benefit all sectors of the economy, including tourism, shipping, aquaculture, agriculture, and water desalination Offshore renewables can play a key role in harnessing the benefits of the blue economy for sustainable development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), said IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera, at the Our Oceans conference held in the…

Urban Living Labs in Bangkok: Potential for Thai Cities

Traditional, top-down urban planning has failed to meet the needs of urban dwellers in Thailand Thai cities are increasingly failing to meet the needs of their citizens, leaving the most vulnerable and underrepresented members of our communities to bear the burden. A tradition of top-down urban planning has built a culture of governance where most…

Circular economy in the agri-food sector

A strategic sector for the European Union - today and the future The strategic importance of the agri-food sector for the European Union can hardly be better underlined as by the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP), which represents about 36% of the overall budget of the EU. The agri-food sector has a strong cultural and social importance, taking…

Public safety and welfare through smart city services

Seoul will be the first city in the country to introduce autonomous patrol robots The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is introducing a system to prevent missing children by using Bluetooth beacons (small wireless devices that work based on Bluetooth low energy, repeatedly transmitting constant signals for location tracking), and is planned to be applied at…

Saudi billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion

"I don't believe that the proposed offer by Elon Musk ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter given its growth prospects," he said in a tweet on his personal account Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal rejected Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion. "I don't believe that the proposed offer…

Oxford historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts

Researchers in the Classics Faculty of the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Department of Humanities of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and Google’s DeepMind have begun applying state-of-the-art machine learning research to transform the study of ancient Greek texts Ithaca is the first deep neural…

Port of Gothenburg expands UECC’s traffic

With UECC vessels calling at the rail connected vehicle and ro-ro-terminal at the Port the new service aims to enhance connection within the entire Swedish market Shipping line United European Car Carriers (UECC) has commenced operations in the Port of Gothenburg to enhance its traffic connections in Northern Europe. The first call was made on 11 April and the…

“Smart means more than just going digital”

An excellent opportunity for the network to take stock and look at the Smart City Berlin’s prospects during the new legislative period The Smart City Berlin network with its more than 150 members from the fields of research and science, business and administration has been committed to helping Berlin develop into a smart city since…

From Bilbao to Seoul

Four young entrepreneurs travel to the capital of South Korea, Seoul, to study the advances and new technologies in the country in depth Last year, BilboTik, a company within the city council of Bilbao, trusted them to research about different strategic lines in Korea, with the intention for the team to write an easy-to-grasp executive report…