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Smart City – Where Today’s Urban Center Needs to Head to Ensure its Tomorrow

A smart city is one that runs wisely, becomes efficient, saves resources and improves the quality of life of its residents and the environment. Technology, while an important ingredient, is only the engine that drives some of the processes and serves to convey information to decision-makers. Is there an optimized model for a smart city? …
creating a Smart City through Partnerships

Seven Conditions for creating a Smart City through Partnerships

Megacities are even outperforming countries in terms of economic activity. Meanwhile, societies are facing unprecedented challenges that need to be tackled in order to foster a sustainable, fair and prosperous future. As cities are where most power, people and money are concentrated, they are the stages upon which most of humanity’s challenges will be played…
Renato de Castro & Rob Monster

A new revolution called Smart Web

Using sharing economy to empower the local ecosystem for smart cities. For years we have been working in retrofitting our cities, developing a new concept so called smart cities. It is clear that the main driver is technology and successful projects nowadays are the ones oriented to citizens. New apps and platforms are emerging as…
Data

#SmartCityTrends: Data needs a ‘banker’

Data needs accountability: here’s how it could happen! Fake news, “alternative facts” and filter bubbles – the data we consume and what we read and experience online shapes the way we view the world and the everyday decisions we make, big and small. If data is the new oil, why not start thinking about managing…
Women taking pictures with smartphones

Citizens driven innovation in the Mediterranean: when digital and social tracks converge in a fertile context

Mediterranean young societies have not turned this huge potential into a positive outcome. Technology is increasingly helping their conscious citizens regionally to innovate while developing and organizing these responses. It is shaping the midterm reality more than we are aware. Innovation is becoming a sort of transversal and comprehensive mantra in the global agenda of…
Living Lab city

Innovations in designing Smart Cities as Living Labs (1)

Cities are complex, networked and continuously changing social ecosystems, shaped and transformed through the interaction of different interests and ambitions. Ensuring employment, sustainable development, inclusion and quality of life are important concerns. Infrastructures of cities, addressing these concerns, comprise a diversity of services such as healthcare, energy, education, environmental management, transportation and mobility, public safety.…
Connected City

Upgrading infrastructure as a path to become a smart city

Bringing smart cities to life is a complex task. To accomplish it, leveraging technology and smart thinking is crucial to target the multiple objectives and to guarantee success in a transformation process which faces many obstacles. Within this transformation, projects which are able to provide multiple benefits as well as making the most and improving…
Urban distribution center

All about urban distribution centers

Countless books and articles have been written about urban distribution centers, logistics decoupling points, city hubs and urban consolidation centers. Every self-respecting European city has been the scene of such initiatives – the one more successful than the other, but all highly subsidized in any case. What can we learn from those initiatives? The best…
Taj Mahal

India is calling

The Mega Event 2017 edition has been grouped into five industry specific sectors. It will be held at New Delhi (10-12 May) introducing a CEO speaks programme, while continuing with the Mayors conclave, Smart Village session & Smart Cities India Awards. Launched in 2015, the annual international Smart Cities India Expo has received exceptional support…
Circular

On priorities

From urban illiteracy to technology impact: how do we need to prioritize the quality of the demand and to focus on the emotional side of people’s lives. This article has a couple of simple messages: in times of abundance (there was never so much wealth in the world) we should be focusing more on quality…

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