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Read MoreAT&T Studies & White Papers Archives -Smart Cities for All
Smart Cities for All: A Vision for an Inclusive, Accessible Urban Future The purpose of this paper is to highlight the potential for smart city technology to enable benefits for people who are aging and people who are living with disabilities, and to indicate suggested practices for building more inclusive smart cities. …
Read MoreSmart City Living Lab partnership brings smart kiosks and more to Dallas, TX
A new partnership between the Dallas Innovation Alliance and AT&T will create a new program to test smart city tools. Source: Living lab partnership brings smart lighting, kiosks and environmental sensors to Dallas
Read MoreWhat the New Urban Agenda means for architects – AIA
What the New Urban Agenda means for architects By Tim Hawk, FAIA; Chere LeClair, AIA; and Derek Washam May 17, 2017 How AIA’s Strategic Council is encouraging communities to embrace sustainable urbanization. The United Nations convened its Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, referred to as UN Habitat III, in Quito, Ecuador in October of 2016. This is the…
Read MoreThe New Urban Agenda Key Smart City Commitments
It’s official: world leaders have adopted the New Urban Agenda, which sets a new global standard for sustainable urban development and will help us rethink how we plan, manage and live in cities.The New Urban Agenda The New Urban Agenda is a roadmap for building cities that can serve as engines of prosperity and centres of cultural and social well-being…
Read MoreSmart City Expo World Congress 2017
14-16 NOVEMBER 2017 BARCELONAGRAN VIA VENUE Source: Smart City Expo World Congress | Projects and Urban Solutionshome-2017
Read MoreNordic Edge Expo 2017
September 26th – 28th 2017 Conference Nordic Edge Expo – the largest smart city event in the Nordics.Stavanger, September 26th-28th 2017 Source: Nordic Edge Expo | Smarter cities – smarter societies
Read MoreGoogle creates Sidewalk Labs to redesign city living with technology
Google is continuing its expansion into every corner of human life. The search giant today announced the creation of Sidewalk Labs, a new and independent company that Google CEO Larry Page says will focus on improving city living for everyone by developing new technologies to deal with urban issues like cost of living, transportation, and energy usage. The new company, based…
Read MoreGoogle Is Outfitting Carnegie Mellon With A Smart City “Living Lab”
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has long been considered one of the world’s leading robotics research institutions–so much so, that ride-hailing company Uber recently poached 40 of its scientists and researchers. A new project funded by Google will help the institution expand beyond its robotics cachet, as CMU turns its campus into a “living laboratory” for smart technologies.The university will…
Read MoreAT&T Smart Cities and the Dallas Innovation Alliance Unveil New Solutions
AT&T* Smart Cities momentum continues with the launch of the DIA Smart Cities Living Lab powered by AT&T (Living Lab). The Living Lab is a multi-phased smart cities project in Dallas. The project is spearheaded by the Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) in collaboration with AT&T and other technology leaders in the public and private sector. AT&T, a Foundational Partner for…
Read MoreSmart City Living Labs and the missing role of culture in implementation
What I did find surprising about the workshop day – and perhaps this is something generated by that whole notion of a town or city being understood as a lab – is that questions of culture and conflict weren’t broached at all. Smart cities are increasingly finding that to fulfill the vision of a good city that smart offers,…
Read MoreTaipei Smart City Living Lab
Taipei Smart City Living Lab Source: Two projects from Taiwan win global smart city awards | Taiwantrade News
Read MoreSMART ACCESSIBILITY 2018
The Third International Conference on Universal Accessibility in the Internet of Things and Smart Environments SMART ACCESSIBILITY 2018 Source: SMART ACCESSIBILITY 2018
Read MoreSmart City Living Lab opens, targets growing pains of a swelling city
The much-anticipated “Kansas City Living Lab” — a platform for application development that taps the Kansas City Smart City initiative — is now open. Source: Smart City Living Lab opens, targets growing pains of a swelling city
Read MoreKansas City’s Smart City provides a glimpse of a people-centric future
In December of 2015 the U.S Department of Transportation issued the Smart City Challenge to any mid size city in America. The challenge was for cities to “use data, applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently”. 78 cities from across the country stepped up and presented their existing challenges and proposed solutions to becoming a Smart…
Read MoreSeattle’s incoming smart city coordinator will take people-centric approach
“Our strategy for smart cities is very much going to be a people-centric approach and we’re going to try very hard to not let the technology drive the decision-making or drive the direction of the project,” said Jim Loter, Seattle’s director of digital engagement. “That’s one of the reasons why this position is in digital engagement and not, for example,…
Read MoreSmart City & Future Commerce Convention 2017
12 major smart cities worldwide are joining in. Many of us think it’s all about using technology to make a city cooler, whether it be through high-tech machinery or innovative infrastructure when as a matter of fact, there’s more to it than meets the eye. The Smart City & Future Commerce Convention 2017 is happening at the Setia Alam Convention Centre from 7 to…
Read MoreWhen connectivity is not enough: the key to meaningful digital inclusion
Smart is disrupting our world for the better – as ITU Telecom World 2017 recognises in its annual debate, networking and exhibition event, focusing this year on “Smart digital transformation.” But a smart society is dependent upon ICT infrastructure and networhttps://europeansting.com/ks like never before. And in a world where some 3.9 billion citizens remain offline, there is a very real…
Read MoreSmart Cities Council extends 2018 challenge grant to states, Mexico and Canada
The Smart Cities Council is extending its grant program for 2018 in several ways, the group announced Thursday.After announcing five winning cities — Austin, Indianapolis, Miami, Orlando and Philadelphia — as winners of the first iteration of the Readiness Challenge Grant in February, SSC has announced it is extending the program to states and other non-city governments like regional transportation authorities, and also branching…
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