Tag: Smart Cities

  • Barcelona won’t have large technology shows this year

    Barcelona won’t have large technology shows this year

    Don’t delude yourself. The likelihood that we attend tech conferences this year in the same format as before are slim to none.

  • When People Are Forced to Become Heroes

    When People Are Forced to Become Heroes

    The idea of the hero stems from antiquity, heroes protect the rest of us from danger and allow us to continue living our comfortable lives. But, what happens when one is thrown into heroism without being asked?

  • This crisis will reshape the way we understand city living

    This crisis will reshape the way we understand city living

    Tel Aviv Foundation’s CEO says city leaders need to listen and be patient to learn from the current crisis. Also, the large events and crowds won’t be back for some time, but that could be a good thing

  • To Map the City’s Retail Health You Need to Walk the Streets

    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 […]

  • Tel Aviv Foundation CEO shares her view of what makes a Smart City

    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 […]

  • Biggest Ever Climate Demonstrations Taking Place in Europe

    Biggest Ever Climate Demonstrations Taking Place in Europe

    Today more than three million people have taken to the streets in support of the Global Climate Strikes Once again youth organisers led the strikes, as they have been doing since Greta Thunberg started the first school strike in August 2018. This time, however, they were joined by adults representing trade unions, charities and thousands […]

  • 4.9 GW of wind energy added in Europe in 2019

    4.9 GW of wind energy added in Europe in 2019

    Europe installed 2.9 GW of onshore wind in the first half of the year. Europe added 4.9 GW of new wind energy capacity in the first half of 2019, according to figures released today by WindEurope. The combined installations of new onshore and offshore wind capacity is up on the same period last year (4.5 […]

  • “License to Pollute” overturned by top European court

    “License to Pollute” overturned by top European court

    The General Court of the European Union upholds action brought by cities: annuls in part the European Commission’s regulation setting excessively high NOx emission limits tests introduced following Dieselgate scandal The General Court of the European Union today found in favor of a legal case brought by the cities of Paris, Madrid and Brussels to […]

  • London adds five new Low Emission Bus Zones

    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 […]

  • It’s Not YOUR Data, Didn’t You know?

    It’s Not YOUR Data, Didn’t You know?

    Identity. In the digital age, this is widely characterised by our data. Internet browsing data, consumer data, digitised public service records and biometrics. A key thread linking many a Smart City talk today is the optimization of public services through data technology. This encompasses everything from delivering healthcare to undeserved populations to more efficient tax […]