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Interview with Toni Mascaró

A 42-year-old businessman from Barcelona, Toni Mascaró has a mind that never stops racing. After a long career as a specialist businessman in new technologies and online marketing, he is currently the Chief Executive Officer at e.mascaró, one of the most successful and innovative companies in e-business applied to tourism.

Big Data, Digital Cities, Smart Cities, Tourism

Interview with Donatella Mosso

Today, Turin is perhaps one of the three benchmark smart cities in Italy, along with Bologna and Genoa. We had a conversation about Turin with Donatella Mosso, executive director of “Torino Smart City. A Winter Olympics”. A strong commitment towards innovation and tourism were the key points for the success of a city that has…

Smart Cities, Tourism

Smart Wine

Wine is a wonderful discussion topic, but it is a complex issue to talk about without falling back on commonplaces. It is most frequently associated to the territory and culture of a given region.We will now focus on the two smartest aspects of this nectar of the gods: the most recent and well-rounded apps, which…

Smart Cities

London the Smartest” City according to IESE Cities i Motion Index

According to IESE Cities in Motion, London remains the undisputed leader in the rankings of the smartest cities in the world. It is followed by New York, which grabbed second place, and Seoul, in third. Rounding out the top 10, we see five other European cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, Geneva and Munich -- and two…

Smart Cities

Evolution of smart cities in Latin America | Brazil

The current article focuses on Rio de Janeiro because of its uniqueness: the future olympic city (2016) is the smart city in Latin America on which more information is available on-line. Brasil belongs to a group of countries known as BRICS , it is the largest economy in Latin America and the second one in…

Featured Article, ICT, Internet, Smart Cities

Searching for a universal yet unique model

Some of the areas in the smart model have already developed regulations (mobility, urban planning, waste management, etc), but still it remains difficult to find a common denominator that brings together all the experiencies that are being introduced in this field. The fact that this is an ever-changing, evolutive model that depends on the innovations the…

Smart Cities

Smart Cities in the age of “the cloud”

In the last months, large companies such as Google, Amazon or Microsoft have significantly shifted their businesses towards the cloud. By doing so, they confirmed a currently existing strategy or else defined new company policies

Big Data, Cloud, ICT, New Technologies, Smart Cities

Eight Spanish cities reduce electrical consumption thanks to Smart Lighting

The partnership between several city halls and the companies Enel Sole and Endesa will save millions for this cities, both in economic terms and in CO2 emissions The Smart mindset applied to urban energy proved its potential for success throughout last year. Enel Sole, an energetic multinational company based in Italy, and the international platform…

Smart Cities, Smart Grids

Official Presentation of the Smart City Business Institute

Manuel Tarín and Rosa Paradell, leaders of the Smart City Business Institute, presented this platform on February 19th 2015, accompanied by the Mayor of Barcelona, who expressed his support to this initiative.

Smart Cities

SCBI: let’s go!

The Smart City Business Institute has officially taken off with a set of agreements with several institutions and companies, determined to become a worldwide renown Smart platform The Smart City Business Institute (SCBI) is now in motion. Our organization, whose main goal is to boost the creation of business opportunities within the Smart Cities sector,…