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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqyf1weWGDc

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Xavier Trias | Smart City Business Institute Presentation

Barcelona is considered a worldwide reference on Smart Cities. It has been distinguished as the first European Capital of Innovation, and it is part of the highest order of Smart Cities in the European Union, and it is also the World Mobile Capital. During the presentation of the Smart City Business Institute, the mayor of…

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Human-scale tourism

Smart solutions to be applied in smart cities of several sizes are already available Two discussion sessions were performed, along with two fieldwork sessions Braganza and Mirandela, in the north-east of Portugal, hosted a 4-day meeting of international experts to analyze the application of new technologies to tourist activity.

Smart Cities, Tourism

Singtel and Ericsson partner to explore future of 5G in Singapore

Partnership to evaluate and test 5G technologies for future standardization Areas of interest include cloud core, radio technologies and Machine Type Communications The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore future 5G networks and to address a wide range of use cases from consumers to industries. The companies will also study…

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Tarragona Smart Mediterrenan City

The "Tarragona Smart Mediterrenan City" is an initiative of the Tarragona City Council and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Rovira i Virgili University) in order to promote the future transformation of the city into a “Smart city” thanks to the celebration of the Mediterranean Games that will take place in 2017.

Citizenship, Smart Cities

The Smart City Business Institute and the City of Barcelona work together to explain the concept of Smart Cities in schools

The Smart City Business Institute (SCBI) and the Municipal Institute of IT of the Barcelona City Hall have signed an agreement to work together in the program “Smart Education”, a project whose goal is to bring the concept of Smart Cities and innovation to the students of Barcelona, from primary school to high school.

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Teradata Executive Stephen Brobst Named One of Top Four Chief Technology Officers in US

Teradata thought leader, database educator rises in ExecRank list Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, announced today that Stephen Brobst, Teradata Chief Technology Officer, has been selected by ExecRank as the number four U.S. chief technology officer (CTO) for 2014. ExecRank screened over 2,500 Chief Technology Officers from among more than 10,000…

Big Data, Smart Cities

Something big is coming to New Delhi

The Pragati Maidan events venue in New Delhi will be the stage for the most extraordinary event that India will hold next year, and quite possibly one of the most relevant in the entire region. SC Actual Smart City will cover the event as a media partner -but in the meantime, allow us to introduce…

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The best of 2014

Here at SC Actual Smart City, we would like to bid farewell this year by offering our readers a list of some of the most notable items of 2014. In order to do so we have selected one entry from each of the different thematic areas of our website, to display an overview of the…

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Interview with Fabien Girardin

“A Smart City handles a huge amount of data, but how to relate them to each other is still to be determined” “We work to turn these non-related data into value. Doubt is the starting point, but as a means to state whether something is good or bad” Fabien Girardin -a Swiss engineer and researcher…