Global Resources and Promising Practices for Building and Refining Accessible and Inclusive Smart Cities from Darren Bates LLC.
Smart cities embrace ideas that have been proven elsewhere and customise them to meet genuine local needs. In turn, these efforts serve as exemplars, showing the way for others to follow.’ We love this quote taken from India Smart Cities Challenge because we believe that one important trait of smart cities is that they learn from evidence and from what…
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Atlanta: On Tuesday the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict) and World Enabled announced that their Smart Cities for All (SC4A) global initiative will develop a new tool to assess and benchmark digital inclusion and ICT accessibility in smart cities. The Smart Cities for All Digital Inclusion Maturity Model will become the first maturity model targeted specifically at digital accessibility…
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In the the following year in the White House’s Smart Cities Initiative. As it prepares for its upcoming August 2017 Expo, GCTC and its partners are focusing on providing cities with a holistic picture of smart city solutions, Sokwoo Rhee, associate director of the cyber-physical systems program at NIST, told StateScoop. “A city which is trying to become smarter does…
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December 21, 2016 By Alex Jablokow Cities—and this term can actually cover smaller urban areas, and other local administrations—are anxious to provide improved services to their constituents, lower costs, and gain information about any problems in their area of responsibility. Smart City initiatives are currently popular as a way of achieving these goals.But a city is a complex organization, with…
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The Forum’s strategic vision is to provide the business blueprint and technology for a scalable and sustainable Smart City, underpinning the top 100 Smart Cities by 2020. Smart City Maturity & Benchmark model allows you to assess and benchmark your city’s current and future smart city status. Smart City Maturity & Benchmark model The Smart City Maturity and Benchmark Model has…
Read More The overall focus of the Smart City project is to drive sustainability, liveability and workability in cities – with special attention to creating horizontally integrated city information hubs and enabling digital ecosystems on top of these information hubs while driving citizen engagement and social equity. Initiatives we are working on include: Unleashing a vibrant city data economy through our ‘City…
Read More SMART CITY APP An App made for Smart City Leaders If you run a smart city project, this App is for you (iOS app and Android app). With various local stakeholders, benchmark progress in your city against best practices and develop a shared vision for the next couple of years. The smart city leader invites a handful of local experts to input…
Read More There are many maturity models around that measure aspects of city smartness. Many of these models are excellent in measuring a portion of what it means to transform into a smart city. Very few take an end-to-end holistic view across city agencies and departments. This Smart City Maturity and Benchmark Model has been designed to capture the key aspects of…
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Who: City of Atlanta What: Needs the ability to map, measure and monitor its smart city strategy How: Using TM Forum’s Smart City Maturity & Benchmark Model as one of its tools Results: Who: City of Atlanta What: Needs the ability to map, measure and monitor its smart city strategy How: Using TM Forum’s Smart City Maturity & Benchmark Model as one of…
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