Boston's CIO has worked to transform traditional bureaucratic procedures to speed the rollout of the latest mobile broadband infrastructure.
Read More“Healthcare, urban tech, education, and transportation are four areas where I see a tremendous possibility of efficiency gains through a use of IOT. If you asked me to choose my favorite problem to solve, it would be solving generational problems in these sectors,” said Hardik.
Read MoreUnder pressure to adapt to new demands and increased service usage, city officials from around the nation said Wednesday their highest hurdles for smart city growth included money, staffing, finding leadership buy-in, partnerships, and creating a cohesive vision that spans the organization.
Read MoreMore than 500 Chinese cities have started or are expected to start their "smart-city" transformations during 2017, according to the Economic Information Daily.
Read MoreEquipped with high-tech versions of common city fixtures — namely, smart benches and digital information signs — and fueled by a “deploy or die” attitude, MIT Media Lab spinout Changing Environments is hoping to accelerate the development of “smart” cities that use technology to solve urban challenges.
Read MoreAt Stanford, scholars and students are looking for creative ways to make cities better places for people to live and thrive – places that offer quality and affordable housing, desirable public spaces, robust transportation systems, healthy air and water, and economic promise for all.
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New York has been crowned as the Best Smart City of 2016 in the Global Smart City Awards, announced at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week.
Read MoreCities around the world could spend as much as $41 trillion on smart tech over the next 20 years.When one of the largest California wildfires on record broke out in 2013, raging for more than two months and threatening San Francisco's water supply coming from Yosemite, firefighters used drones to get aerial shots of the blaze and determine the best points of entry. Now those drones have come down from the mountains and into the city.
Read MoreSome of China’s top tech firms will soon be welcoming a famous new neighbor.
Apple has confirmed it will open a research and development center in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city that serves as a hardware manufacturing hub for the world. The center’s launch comes as Apple looks for new ways to position itself in the world’s largest consumer market, amid sputtering iPhone sales.
Read MoreEach year, the FedScoop 50 Awards honor the best and the brightest who make the U.S. federal government more efficient and effective. These awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of those in service and acknowledge their efforts to make a positive impact in the government community and in public service. This year, David Bray (USA ’15) has been honored in the federal leadership category
Read MoreWhile the city of Montreal embarks on a massive, four-year project to replace aging pipes and boost pedestrian- and bike-safety on one of its main commercial streets, enormous inflatable arches will keep pedestrians away from construction, but still drawn to local businesses
Read MorePITTSBURGH — Any day now, Uber will introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, making this former steel town the world’s first city to let any passenger hail an autonomous vehicle.
Read MoreThis year’s bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley to win the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge failed, but the momentum generated by the collaboration has resulted in an agreement between the city and the university to continue to explore innovative urban transportation options, and ways that technology can improve city life in general.
Read More“Smart city.” By now, every governor, mayor and councilperson across the country has heard the phrase. But those two words encompass a myriad of connected technologies that can improve city life and municipal efficiency.
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