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Tech institutes collaborate with NHAI for adoption of highway stretches

Eighteen IITs, 26 National Institutes of Technology, and 190 other reputed engineering colleges across India have agreed to collaborate with India’s national highways builder The best brains in India’s reputed technology institutes will “adopt” national highways and work with the National Highways Authority of India in its endeavour to create a network of world class…

india, investigation, smartcity, sustainablecities, technologies

Canberra: City Walk transformed into a green oasis

The upgrade also includes improved new energy-efficient lighting and more street furniture for visitors, with many made from recycled wood Business owners have welcomed City Walk’s recent makeover, which is set to breathe life into the heart of Canberra. The City Renewal Authority has transformed City Walk between Garema Place and Ainslie Place into an…

Canberra, City Walk, efficiency, smartcity, sustainablecities

Norway digitally freezes national treasures and stores them in Arctic archive

The National Museum has preserved some of the country’s most treasured artefacts digitally and stored them in a former mine on Arctic archipelago Svalbard. The Arctic World Archive was originally constructed in 2017 to “protect the world’s most important cultural relics”, the National Museum said on its website. The data preservation facility is located on…

National Museum, Norway, smartcity, sustainablecities, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, technologies

Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of SCO Member States Held

The SCO currently comprises eight Member States: China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan The 5th Meeting of Agriculture Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States was held via video conference. Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Taolin attended the meeting from the Yangling Demonstration Zone in Xianyang, Shaanxi…

agrosmart, China, Covid19, SCO, sustainablecities, technologies

Listen to science and learn from nature

Combining artificial intelligence with the natural phenomenon of swarm intelligence for new mobility solutions What is “better”: Zero movement or unlimited movement with CO2 emissions?What is “wanted”: Fast deliveries or clean air?What is “easier”: Earning money or saving the planet? In the last two centuries, humanity gradually changed from a non-industrial economy to the full…

Graphmasters, Juliana Obynochnaya, NUNAV, smartcity, sustainablecities, sustainableworld

Mainstreaming of biodiversity within Mexican agriculture (IKI-IBA)

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety (BMU) of Germany collaborates in this project Agriculture is vital to the Mexican economy: around one in seven of the population earns a living from it. Traditionally, subsidy programmes in the sector have in particular promoted intensification of agricultural production through the use of…

agrosmart, BMU, Germany, mexico, smartcity, sustainablecities

Oslo: Climate Dashboard

Historical data is analysed and combined with weather data. In this way it is possible to present predicted data based on machine learning Smart use of technologyThe City of Oslo has developed a pilot project to demonstrate potential of using technology in a Smart City context. The prototype visualises climate and environmental data, such as…

climatechange, Oslo, smartcities, smarttechnology, sustainablecities, technologynews

5G laboratory was opened in Moscow for solving urban problems

Big technology companies, start-ups, research institutes and industry-specific universities will have access to 5G networks for testing solutions A 5G Demo Center was launched in the Smart City pavilion at VDNH for testing and supporting urban services based on 5th generation communications. The priority industries for the testing of 5G-based services are transport, medicine, urban…

5-G, Moscow, smartcity, sustainablecities, sustainableworld, technologynews

Electro micromobility & road regulation

The introduction of road education in school curricula should become a prerequisite, as is already the case in some countries. Authoritative analyses have led to a sharp rise in sales of Elettro bikes Eapcs and Elettro scooters in the motor vehicle sector worldwide. The data of Boston Consulting Group BCG published last August, estimated at…

climatechange, Elettro bikes, Elettro scooters, EMobility, PATRIZIA IORIO, smartcity, sustainablecities, sustainableworld

The connected future of smart cities starts with smart buildings

Expected to spend nearly $124 billion this year on smart city initiatives, an increase of 18.9 % from 2019, according to a recent IDC report. Smart City initiatives are emerging here in the U.S. and around the globe. Forward leaning cities from Seattle to Singapore to London are expected to spend nearly $124 billion this…