Category: Smart Cities
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Primary and Secondary Schools Dive Headfirst into Online Teaching Amid COVID-19
Educators have been drawn into adapting to online teaching overnight. We explore how schools, teachers and parents are dealing with the current reality.
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Traffic patterns are going to drastically be very different, says Micromobility expert
While some bike-sharing systems are being shut off to reduce mobility, others are experiencing a sudden increase of demand as people avoid mass transit Bico AI, a British company founded in 2018, provides intelligence solutions for the micromobility industry, directly to operators of scooter and bike sharing systems. Today provides business intelligence to some of […]
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To Map the City’s Retail Health You Need to Walk the Streets
Barcelona and Manhattan, two municipalities with the same population and retail model, share many similarities and a couple of things they can learn from each other. Municipalities, facing the need to understand the real economic activity of the city, and its retail composition, can’t rely on registration data, they need to do fieldwork and keep […]
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Tel Aviv Foundation CEO shares her view of what makes a Smart City
Tel Aviv, one of the early recipients of the Smart City Award, has expanded its leadership with the introduction of new tools, such as the new “City Coin” In 2014, Tel Aviv was awarded with the Smart City prize at the Smart City Expo World Congress. Since then, the city has expanded its leadership in […]
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10 Latin American Cities Commit to Develop Climate Action Plans on the Objectives of the Paris Agreement
Buenos Aires, Curitiba, Guadalajara, Lima, Medellín, Mexico City, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and São Paulo today revealed their commitment to bold climate action and pledged to deliver on their share of the Paris Agreement. C40’s Climate Action Planning Latin America Program provides direct support to the 10 cities in developing robust and evidence-based long-term climate action plans […]
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Athens fights rising heat
At the recent Smart Cities Conference in Barcelona, Mayor Kaminis of Athens highlighted how the city is helping residents survive the increasingly hot summers in the Greek capital. Imagine you are drinking margaritas while sprawled out at the front row of a bright, beautiful beach contemplating the turquoise waters as a refreshing breeze comes and […]
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C40 Cities Finances New Sustainable Infrastructure
Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Montería, Tshwane, Quito, Curitiba, Quezon City, and Dar es Salaam will receive support in implementing sustainable projects Berlin, Germany.Nine cities will receive specialist financial advice and bespoke support from leading global experts to develop sustainable infrastructure projects from great ideas and plans into fully financed reality. The Colombian cities of Bogotá, Bucaramanga, […]
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London adds five new Low Emission Bus Zones
In his latest measure to tackle London’s lethal toxic air, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has added five new ‘clean air’ Low Emission Bus Zones in some of the capital’s worst polluted hotspots. Only buses that meet the cleanest emission standards will operate within the new Low Emission Bus Zones, which have been delivered […]
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Smart City of 2018 is Singapore
The city of Singapore wins the Smart City of 2018 at the Smart City Expo World Congress recognizing the most outstanding initiatives and projects in the urban innovation and transformation industry. Barcelona. The Smart Nation project to transform Singapore into a global benchmark of smart urban solutions deployment has earned the Asian city-state the title […]
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Forty-eight Global Cities Work on Regulatory Framework for Digital Platforms
During the Sharing Cities Summit 2018 global cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm and Vienna have agreed on a Declaration of Principles and Commitments of the Sharing Cities Barcelona. An action plan aims to establish a Barcelona-based office where cities can share common information, strategies […]