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Beyond the e-government hypeIn their efforts to make government more accessible and transparent, public-sector managers across the globe are rushing to adopt the latest Web-based technologies. But establishing stronger connections with citizens requires a giant step beyond the technology itself and a focus on generating real, lasting public value. Mashups, tweets, wikis and blogs: Is this any way to run a country?
Intelligent Transport: How cities can improve mobilityCities face urgent transport challenges. Many are starting to tackle them by implementing new intelligent transport systems, and some have achieved impressive benefits. However, many cities are at the “early adopter” stage. How can they move forward? We believe five recommendations can assist cities in using new technologies to achieve optimized, integrated transport services.
Solution for Smart Cities: Delivering 21st Century ServicesOracle’s Solution for Smart Cities will address the ever increasing need to provide businesses and citizens with transparent, efficient and intelligent engagement with their local authority/administration - through any channel - for any purpose, from information requests and government programs enrollment, to incident reporting or scheduling inspections, to complete online start-up of a local businesses
IBM Opens Smarter Cities Technology Centre in IrelandIBM and IDA Ireland today announced IBM's first Smarter Cities Technology Centre. The centre will be located in Dublin, where IBM will build a highly skilled and cross-disciplinary team to help cities around the world better understand, interconnect and manage their core operational systems such as transport, communication, water and energy.
Edimburgh Smart City ProjectsEdimburgh Smart City Projects: highlights of the projects implemented by Edimburgh City Council
Edinburgh Smart City StrategyThe Smart City Vision is all about how customers and the Council connect. It is about using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to change the way the Council organises and delivers its services to be efficient, effective and customer focussed.
MIT Senseable CityThis document summarizes some recent studies carried out by the Senseable City Lab, within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. The Senseable City Lab is a research group, somewhere between the “Media Lab” and the department of “Urban Studies and Planning”, which set out to understand how new technologies can change the way in which we describe, understand, use and plan the city of the future.
The emergence of the eco-efficient economyIn early 2010, IBM brought together leaders from various businesses, institutions and geographies to determine the actions to build a sustainable future. The consensus: eco-efficiency will be the biggest economic “game changer” for organizations over the next 20 years. To get there will require stakeholders – public, private, institutional and others – to collaboratively address the key drivers, challenges and opportunities of the emerging eco-efficient economy.
Sensors Make Cities SmarterCall it City 2.0: a metropolis where officials instantly monitor all of the urban environment's constantly changing dynamics--the outside temperature; snow or rainfall; traffic; and perhaps most importantly, people moving through the streets, flowing from one neighborhood to the next. This system helps officials send resources to the street corner where gangs are converging, manage traffic before it becomes congested, and respond to emergencies seamlessly--automatically--before they're even reported.
How cities can improve mobilityCities face urgent transport challenges. Many are starting to tackle them by implementing new intelligent transport systems, and some have achieved impressive benefits. However, many cities are at the “early adopter” stage. How can they move forward? We believe five recommendations can assist cities in using new technologies to achieve optimized, integrated transport services
Amsterdam as Smart City: Going Green, FastAmong Amsterdam's 17th century town houses and meandering canals, big changes are afoot. On Utrechtsestraat, a major shopping avenue in the center of the Dutch capital, street trash soon will be collected by nonpolluting electric trucks, while the electronic displays in local bus stops will be powered by small solar panels. Elsewhere, 500 households will pilot an energy-saving system from IBM and Cisco aimed at cutting electricity costs. An additional 728 homes will have access to financing from Dutch banks ING and Rabobank to buy everything from energy-saving light bulbs to ultra-efficient roof insulation.
The future EU strategy on Information SocietyCities are driving the digital economy forward. City governments are continually implementing innovative and citizen-centered public services. In partnership with the private and voluntary sector municipalities build and strengthen the local development of open innovation and research partnerships. They provide support to local business and start-ups in innovative sectors such as creative industries, and run programs to close the digital divide and help disadvantaged people to improve their ICT skills. City governments are also working to maximize the potential of ICT to improve energy efficiency and help tackle climate change. In this paper we highlight a number of important issues under the headings of thematic integration, user focus, open dialogue and measurability. We finish by highlighting the priority themes for cities in the future European strategy
How Smart is your City?The performance of core systems of today’s cities is fundamental to social and economic progress. Faced with major challenges, these systems can be improved and optimized through the application of smart solutions. In this second perspective by the IBM Institute for Business Value on creating smarter cities, we show how cities can assess and monitor progress in optimizing core systems against a limited set of key parameters, as well as determine how they measure up to their peers
A Vision of Smarter CitiesAn urbanizing world means cities are gaining greater control over their development, economically and politically. Cities are also being empowered technologically, as the core systems on which they are based become instrumented and interconnected, enabling new levels of intelligence. In parallel, cities face a range of challenges and threats to their sustainability – across their business and people systems and core infrastructures such as transport, water, energy and communication – that they need to address holistically. To seize opportunities and build sustainable prosperity, cities need to become “smarter.”
Amsterdam Smart cityAmsterdam has recently begun implementing a wide-ranging “smart city” program, which will involve energy saving systems in households, including a new “smart grid” platform, household solar panels and wind turbines, as well as power hook-ups for electric cars, making its already carbon conscious infrastructure more eco-friendly
EU "Smart City” initiativeA Smart City means a city that makes a conscious effort to innovatively employ information and communication technologies (ICT) to support a more inclusive, diverse and sustainable urban environment. More specifically, in terms of future policies, the Workshop considered the future use of ICT in cities from three complementary perspectives: the maturing of Future Internet technologies and services, Cities as platforms for new internet-based services, Open and user-driven innovation as drivers for new service adoption. A Smart Cities Workshop has been run in Brussels on 16th-17th November to discuss and introduce the initiative.