Global Resources and Promising Practices for Building and Refining Accessible and Inclusive Smart Cities from Darren Bates LLC.
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…
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New Microsoft, UN partnership will focus on tech’s role in tackling human rights challengesThis information provided by Smart Cities Council Compassionate Cities.Wed, 2017-05-17 10:45 — Compassionate C…As human rights challenges in communities around the world not only proliferate but grow increasingly complex, we’re encouraged by the news this week that Microsoft is partnering with the United Nations Human Rights Office…
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Accessible Smart Cities Initiative By Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos on 6 February 2017. Posted in Intelligent Cities / Smart CitiesG3ict – the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies – and World Enabled teamed up to create the Defining Accessible Smart Cities Initiative.Sponsored by Microsoft, the initiative’s goal is to increase awareness of the role that accessible technology must play in…
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Thus far, the smart city movement has been focused on core infrastructure like broadband and sensors, but this week, the conversation began to shift to an even more important element — people. Source: Smart City 2.0: Shifting the Focus from Infrastructure to People
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Cities are great places for young people, but they’re also wonderful places to spend your entire life. In fact, more and more people are staying in cities for good, and enjoying their retirement in a vibrant atmosphere. As a result, cities are taking senior-friendliness seriously. They need to provide residents with bright prospects that stretch well into the golden years.Worldwide,…
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Re-visioning the structures of human prosperityThe majority of the planet now lives and works in cities. If economic growth is coupled with better networked communities and more environmental friendly practices, human prosperity could be redefined as the win-win formula of the future.In this vision, the entire urban space works interactively with its inhabitants, businesses and public sector to raise the…
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When kids put on their urban planner hats – cities are better for everyone The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child championed children’s participation in all social processes, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that UNICEF took that goal further by introducing the concept of cities by and for children. In the last decade, organizations like the…
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Digitalization continues to change our daily lives – and it’s people who live in cities who most intimately experience these changes. Microsoft, one of the leading pioneers in the field of digitalization, hosts an annual conference for its partners in innovation. Together, they showcase many of the next major developments in digitalization. Join URBAN HUB as we look into the…
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Hear what members of our community want in an age-friendly community. Affordable housing and transportation, access to health care and social activities, respect and much more. Thank you to Boston Neighborhood Network, Ethos and Massachusetts Senior Action Council for their help in producing this video. This video was produced by In the Car. http://www.inthecarmedia.com/ Barrier-free connectivity for social inclusion The…
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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. …
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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…
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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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Is your city a happy city? Do you know what makes a city happy? Luckily, there are plenty of surveys and studies on what makes for urban contentment – and how to achieve it. Many people are a bit surprised to learn that money is not the main ingredient. Of course, economic prosperity brings many good things to cities, such…
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Smart Cities NYC ’17: How to make urban areas inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities Length: 2:00 | May 9, 2017 Every city should have a chief accessibility officer to ensure inclusiveness for people with disabilities, according to Victor Pineda, president of World Enabled, which partnered with Microsoft for the creation of the Smart Cities for All Toolkit Video Source:http://www.techrepublic.com/videos/share/smart-cities-nyc-17-how-to-make-smart-cities-inclusive-and-accessible/
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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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Turning a regular city into a smart city is not simple. There are a lot of challenges and issues to be tackled: Identifying the funding sources; defining the strategic plan; knowing the right benefits to the citizen and so on. But with well-defined standards and best practices, a complex path can be simplified into one that is easy to follow.…
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Smart Cities Week returns to Washington, D.C. Oct. 3-5 with focus on smart infrastructure WASHINGTON, D.C. – Smart infrastructure is the theme for Smart Cities Week 2017, which returns to the nation’s capital for the third straight year Oct. 3-5. North America’s premiere smart cities conference and exhibition will bring together visionary leaders and thinkers from all levels of government to…
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SmartCitiesWorld, in conjunction with Philips Lighting, is launching a worldwide survey that seeks to understand and identify key attitudes and perceptions around smart cities and their implementation. We will be taking the results to help produce a new white paper so we’d love to know your experiences & views. Source: Survey to discover key attitudes and perceptions around smart cities…
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Stay connected on social media by adding these informative accounts to your news feed. Source: 10 smart cities-related Twitter accounts to follow right now | Smart Cities Dive If you’re in the business of building smart, sustainable cities, you’re probably thinking about tech, internet access and social media. Yet with so many topics to pay attention to, it may be…
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Inclusion Summit Yoo, who is Senior VP for Corporate Affairs at Cisco, says over the years Cisco’s Networking Academy has benefited over 3,000 students with disabilities and the company has made a commitment to more than triple that number in the next five years. “We believe that helping people with disabilities develop technical skills is a win-win,” writes Woo. “It…
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