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Month: November 2017

Location Intelligence and Citizen Engagement: Key Factors in Making Smart Cities

Location Intelligence and Citizen Engagement: Key Factors in Making Smart Cities – Sensing Change Blog

By utilizing location intelligence, Smart Cities enable efficient utilization of resources, people, money, assets, and information. Smart City programs have started gaining momentum with the tech-savvy generation, offering pathways to better economic conditions, sustainable development, quality of life and improved governance. This trend is being driven by a number of factors, like reduced technology costs, free mobile apps, social media platforms, cloud computing and effective ways of managing high volumes of data. The ultimate goal of a Smart City is to enable the government and citizens to understand, communicate, access and predict urban functions more efficiently…

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Accessibility to ICTs: Achieving equitable communications for everyone

Accessibility to ICTs: Achieving equitable communications for everyone

​​​​​​​15 per cent of the world’s population lives with a disability. This represents about 1 billion people globally. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones, satellites or the Internet, are a unique infrastructure that expand access to key  public services, promoting digital inclusion. Throughout the world, persons living with disabilities are already benefitting from the advantages of ICT-enabled applications. But…

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Intentional Citizen Engagement and Building Smart Cities For Everyone – Urban Transformations

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Breadcrumb NavXT 5.7.   Most of us will have heard something about ‘smart’ cities, but perhaps are unsure what the term really means? Using examples from ‘cutting edge’ research which we are conducting here at the University of Stirling, where we are uniquely looking at smart cities from the ‘lens’ of the citizen, we will try to help to fill…

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10 Tips – How to Avoid Citizen Engagement Pitfalls in Smart Cities Deployment – SMART iLab

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Many citizen engagement mobile apps (example – identifying pothole, drainage faulty traffic light, illegal parking, unattended, etc. issues) failed simply because it’s unable to sustain the popularity, usage, and continuous enhancement. Why? Below I listed some of the tips for the city authorities to consider avoiding these failures…

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Intentional Citizen Engagement Makes a City Smart – Livemint

Citizen engagement makes a city smart, not infrastructure – Livemint

In June 2015, the ministry of urban development came out with guidelines for a smart city. These guidelines were divided into six key areas with solutions to various everyday problems in each of these categories. Smart facilities under e-Governance and Automated Citizen Services include public information, grievance redressal, electronic service delivery, citizen engagement, citizens’ eyes and ears, and video crime…

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CO-CREATING SMART CITIES TOGETHER WITH CITIZENS

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Cities should engage more their citizens in their change process of becoming smarter It’s high time that cities started involving their own citizens in designing their future together, propose experts at Smart cities conference – here’s why. More than half of people in the world are now living in urban areas and it is predicted that by 2050 about 75% of the world’s population will live in cities. To meet the challenges of urban population growth, cities around the world are seeking to reinvent themselves, aiming to be able to respond to their citizens needs.

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#SmartCity Buba New assistive technology to be on show for people with determination (disabilities)

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Dubai: Technology has been helping people of determination to be more independent and increase their employability and many of these new devices will be exhibited in this year’s AccessAbilities Expo 2017 happening next month. AccessAbilities Expo 2017, the Middle East’s largest expo for people with disabilities, will be held from November 7 to 9 at the Dubai International Convention and…

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Smart Dubai attends Smart Cities World Congress #SCEW17 #SCEW2017

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SDO is attending the event, which takes place in Barcelona until 16th November, along with 12 its government and private-sector strategic partners. We are always on the lookout for opportunities to share our success with the world, as well as to learn from other like-minded organisations about the latest inventions and best practices to develop our own offering. Each of us brings a rich background and deep insight into our respective industries. add-to

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Amsterdam Smart City

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Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) is the innovation platform of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area which contributes to the liveability and promotes sustainable economic growth. add

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful #SmartCity – Austin Startups #SCEW17

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This blog focuses on the “secret sauce” that turns the idea of a smart city into reality — the people who live in the city, who work in the city and the people who have hopes and dreams for the kind of city they will leave for future generations. “A city isn’t smart because it uses technology

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Top US digital cities announced

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The Centre for Digital Government recognises those cities that are using technology to improve citizen services, enhance transparency and encourage engagement add

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Citizen Engagement in Urban Transformation

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‘Citizen engagement requires good communication – but good communication alone is not citizen engagement’. Alec Walker-Love, Europe-based communications specialist with a background in urban mobility, reflects on a practitioner research report on citizen engagement in urban transformation. It makes sense; 72% of Europeans live in cities and this is expected to rise to 80% by 2050

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About Citizen Focus: Smart City Citizen Co-Creation Stategies

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n a time of urban transformation and digitalisation of smart cities, too little attention is sometime given to citizens. Citizen Focus Action Cluster strongly believes in citizens as fundamental actors for the regeneration and development of smart cities. Civic engagement, empowerment, participation and co-creation are at the basis of our advocacy approach since we acknowledge that citizen voice can be pivotal in providing the demand-side pressure on government, service providers and organisations needed to encourage full response to citizen needs…

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Building the right culture for successful smart cities

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Changing organizational culture is recognized as an essential element of a successful smart city, but it is much easier said than done. A panel of smart city experts share their insights

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Smart World Lockdown: Preparing for a truly connected world

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About 10 years ago, technology company PTC noticed a change in the market. After 22 years designing, and later servicing, products for manufacturers, it noticed its customers starting to value software over physical products. More and more devices were getting IP addresses and connecting to the internet, and the company realised that the dawn of widespread and accessible IoT applications would herald huge changes in manufacturing.

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Smart City Challenge: Lessons Learned

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What We Learned From Across America The response to the challenge was unprecedented – we received 78 applications. Cities from Albuquerque to Anchorage and Providence to Portland took the Challenge as an opportunity to create blueprints of their cities’ transportation futures.

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Google’s Sidewalk Labs signs deal for #smart city makeover of Toronto’s waterfront – The Globe and Mail

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A unit of Google’s parent company, devoted to urban innovation, has signed a deal to map out a new kind of neighbourhood on Toronto’s waterfront that could demonstrate how data-driven technology can improve the quality of city life. This is the first such project for Alphabet, and for Sidewalk Labs. If the initiative proceeds, it would include at least 3.3 million square feet of residential, office and commercial space, including a new headquarters for Google Canada, in a district that would be a test bed for the combination of technology and urbanism

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Putting People First: Analysis Can Place Citizens at the Center of Smart City Projects

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WEBINAR: Putting People First: Analysis Can Place Citizens at the Center of #SmartCity Projects

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Smart City Expo World Congress 2017: towards active citizen participation

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From November 14 to 16 it’s again all smart cities in Barcelona at the occasion of the 2017 edition of Smart City Expo World Congress where people empowerment, active citizen participation and even participative democracy are omnipresent.Smart cities need informed, aware and empowered citizens with active citizen participation

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Now is the Time to Build Smarter and More Accessible #SmartCities

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Now is the Time to Build Smarter and More Accessible Cities There are currently more than 1 billion persons with disabilities worldwide and the rate of urbanization is increasing throughout the world. By considering the needs of all people, we can design for and ensure that our cities become simultaneously smarter and more accessible. As cities invest in Smart City…

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