This city portrait is in two parts. The first part (Alba Iulia Smart City: How Central Romania Quietly Created a Hidden Champion in Europe) described the ambitious plans of the Alba Iulia City Hall as it uses tourism and strong partnerships with private companies to transform Alba Iulia into Romania’s first smart city. This second part takes a closer look at some of the smart solutions being implemented there.
Topic: open-data
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Smart City Alba Iulia: Solutions For A Digital City
By Lisa Smith on Nov 21, 2018 11:47:27 PM
Topics:
Smart City Strategy
Smart Mobility
Smart Lighting
Open Data
LoRaWan
Leading Smart City
Smart City
Public Private Partnership
Smart Parking
Smart City Technology
Citizen Participation
Air Quality
Virtual Reality
Romania
e-AlbaIulia
Tourism
Smart Water Management
Energy Efficiency
City Analytics Platform
Alba Iulia
CityApps
CityHealth
Alba Carolina Citadel
Wireless Network
InteliLIGHT
Orange Romania
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Smart City Palo Alto
By Lisa Smith on Oct 1, 2018 11:06:20 AM
A comparatively small American city in the very center of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto has thrown itself into the smart city scene, founding a number of tech-driven projects to solve the problems of its 67,000 citizens. The first challenge to overcome, however, is its size: Palo Alto will need to pioneer smart resource management in order to fund the deployment of its smart city initiatives and the larger-scale implementation of any successful solutions.
Topics:
Smart City Strategy
Smart Government
Smart Mobility
Smart Lighting
Open Data
Leading Smart City
Smart Collaboration
Smart City
Smart City Apps
Air Quality
Traffic Reduction
Citizen Innovation
Smart Water Management
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Palo Alto Apps Challenge
PaloAlto311
AdoptMeApp
Jonathan Reichental
Smart Resource Management
University Collaboration
Sensor Networks
Traffic Management
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Alba Iulia Smart City: A Quietly Created Hidden Champion in Europe
By Lisa Smith on Sep 27, 2018 2:13:35 PM
This city portrait is in two parts. This first part describes the ambitious plans of the Alba Iulia City Hall as it uses tourism and strong partnerships to transform Alba Iulia into Romania’s first smart city. The second part takes a closer look at some of the more than 100 smart city solutions being implemented there.
Topics:
Smart City Strategy
Smart Mobility
Smart Lighting
Open Data
LoRaWan
Leading Smart City
Smart City
Public Private Partnership
Smart City Technology
Citizen Participation
Air Quality
Romania
e-AlbaIulia
Tourism
Smart Water Management
Energy Efficiency
City Analytics Platform
Alba Iulia
CityApps
CityHealth
Alba Carolina Citadel
Wireless Network
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Seoul Smart City Portrait: Collaboration and Smart Solutions
By Lisa Smith on Aug 29, 2018 11:14:58 AM
This city portrait is in two parts. The first part, Seoul Smart City: The Power of Citizen Participation, described the reorganization of the Seoul Municipal Government in order to empower citizens and create a stronger climate of citizen participation at all possible administrative levels. This second part takes a closer look at some of the specific smart solutions being implemented by the city.
Topics:
Smart City Solutions
Smart Living
Smart Environment
Smart Mobility
Open Data
Open Government
Leading Smart City
Smart City
Public Private Partnership
Citizen Participation
Smart People
Citizen-Centric Strategy
Seoul Innovation Bureau
Seoul Innovation Park
Hopeful Seoul
Seoul
Municipal Government
Seoul Digital Foundation
Civic Participation
South Korea
Korean National Energy Plan
Digital Innovation School
Seoul Youth Hub
Pay as You Throw
Citizens Environment Watch
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Seoul Smart City Portrait: The Power of Citizen Participation
By Lisa Smith on Aug 27, 2018 11:11:28 AM
This city portrait is in two parts. This first part describes the reorganization of the Seoul Municipal Government in order to empower citizens and create a stronger climate of citizen participation at all possible administrative levels. The second part, Seoul Smart City: Collaboration & Smart Solutions, takes a closer look at some of the specific smart solutions being implemented by the city.
Topics:
Smart City Solutions
Citizen Centricity
Open Data
Open Government
Leading Smart City
Innovation
Smart Collaboration
Smart City
Public Private Partnership
Citizen Participation
Civic Engagement
Citizen-Centric Strategy
Citizen Innovation
Seoul
Civic Participation
South Korea
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Smart City Zaragoza: The Power of Citizen Innovators
By Jon Glasco on Jul 1, 2018 7:56:20 PM
Zaragoza: Pioneering a Citizen-Centric Smart City Vision
Fifteen years ago, Zaragoza - the historic Spanish city situated between Madrid and Barcelona - pioneered a vision of a future digital district and knowledge-based society. Since then, the city has developed an impressive portfolio of smart city projects and new urban services. According to Daniel Sarasa, Urban Innovation Planner in Zaragoza and internationally recognized smart city innovator, one of Zaragoza's unique strengths is its culture of citizen involvement and participation. This culture has its roots in the reawakening of democracy. In the late 1970s, the city of Zaragoza (like other cities in Spain) looked back on thirty five years of dictatorship – and looked ahead to an uncertain future. During the years of dictatorship, Zaragoza had grown in population from approximately 235,000 to more than 500,000, but the civic infrastructure and public services needed to support this urban growth were inhibited by an autocratic national government which maintained severe austerity measures.
Topics:
Smart City Strategy
Smart City Solutions
Citizen Centricity
Open Data
Open Government
Co-Creation
Spain
Smart City Technology
Citizen Participation
Urban Planning
Zaragoza
Urban Innovation
Innovation District
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Ipswich Smart City: A Holistic Smart City Program for Growth
By Lisa Smith on May 21, 2018 11:13:45 AM
ICF Top 7 Intelligent Communities – Ipswich (Queensland, Australia)
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) releases an annual selection of seven different communities which it considers to have achieved a certain level of intelligence in the way they respond to the challenges of globalization and urbanization or, as the ICF prefers to call it, the Broadband Economy. The selection of communities for 2018 was released in February, and can be found listed on the bee smart city website. The Intelligent Community of the Year was chosen from among the Top 7 and announced at the ICF Global Summit in June.
Ipswich, Australia - Following a Holistic Smart City Program
The city of Ipswich is young – that is to say, it has the youngest population on average in all of Queensland, Australia – and it is also growing faster than any other city in the state. Currently boasting around 200,000 inhabitants, its government projects that almost another three hundred thousand people will call the city home within the next twenty years, more than doubling its population and ensuring a need for an estimated 120,000 new employment opportunities. In preparation for this expansion, the Ipswich City Council created a twenty-year plan for the development of the city. Now in 2018, seven years later, the council has decided to extend its original plans by setting up a Smart City Program to direct the city’s growth. This kind of carefully guided development is possibly the reason it has been on the radar of the ICF since 2010, and is now in the running for Intelligent Community of the Year 2018.
Topics:
Smart City Strategy
Open Data
Smart Economy
Innovation
Smart City
Sustainability
Intelligent Community Forum
ICF
Intelligent Community
Top7 Intelligent Community of 2018
Healthcare
Education
Digital Skills
Economic Development
Ipswich
Queensland
Australia
Livability
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A Portrait of the Smart City Eindhoven
By Lisa Smith on Feb 27, 2018 10:43:53 PM
This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city approach and intelligent solutions implemented in the Dutch City of Eindhoven. For its achievements, especially in regards to open innovation, the City of Eindhoven was named the "Intelligent Community of the Year 2011" by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).
Topics:
Smart Mobility
Smart Lighting
Open Data
Leading Smart Cities
Smart Economy
City Portraits
Smart Collaboration
Smart City
Internet of Things (IoT)
Air Quality Monitoring
Smart Parking
Affordable Housing
Triangulum Project
Strijp-S
Eindhoven
Philips Lighting
Eckart Vaartbroek
Smart City Continuous Innovation Process
Open Innovation
Citybeacon
Brainport Development
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A Portrait of the Smart Nation Singapore
By Lisa Smith on Feb 12, 2018 9:17:09 PM
This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City and nation-state of Singapore. Cities all over the world are applying new technologies to solve their problems and become smarter. Singapore’s take on technology, as endorsed by bee smart city, is that it should not be an end in itself – it should be made to serve the people, who should be firmly at the center of the smart city concept.
Topics:
Smart Mobility
Broadband Connectivity
Open Data
Leading Smart Cities
City Portraits
Smart Collaboration
Smart City
Roland Berger
Self-Driving Vehicles
Intelligent Community Forum
Singapore
Smart Nation Singapore
National Steps Challenge
Smart City Technology
Contactless Payments
Health Hub Portal
Smart City Apps
Juniper Research
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Amsterdam Smart City: A World Leader in Smart City Development
By Lisa Smith on Dec 10, 2017 7:32:31 PM
This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of Amsterdam. The Dutch capital city, is one of the early adopters of smart city strategies in Europe, following their strategic smart city approach since 2008. Today, the city is one of the leading smart cities in Europe.
Topics:
Smart Living
IoT applications
Open Data
Leading Smart Cities
Smart Economy
Amsterdam
LoRaWan
City Portraits
Netherlands
Circular City
Startup Ecosystem
Smart City Platform
Amsterdam Smart City