The Center of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT) promotes the investigation and debate around various areas of Geography and at the intersection with diverse scientific disciplines, Continue reading…

In this latest episode of “Revolution”, Brian Solis features Jay Nath, who serves as chief innovation officer for the City of San Francisco (SF). Nath works with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to embrace the city’s vast pool of technology startups and entrepreneurs in order to drive more innovation within the government. Continue reading…

Smart Cities can change the urban way of life in Africa providing safer neighbourhoods, very low traffic-congestion, a low carbon environment and houses that run themselves. All these futuristic-sounding innovations will be available not at some point in the far future but in the next five years according to the upcoming Smart Cities summit in South Africa. Continue reading…

A one-day conference is going to be held tomorrow (May 4) on Planning for Smart Cities and Smart Regions of the Future. The conference is a free event and it is being held at the Engineering Building (pictured here) of NUI Galway Continue reading…

Economists with salary data provider PayScale compiled a list of the 10 best cities in the U.S. for finding high-paying IT jobs with tech startups. They looked at the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. and determined the number of startup IT jobs available per capita in each location. Continue reading…

The south-east Asian country has embarked on an ambitious “Smart Thailand” project in order to increase its competitiveness on a regional as well as on a global level, and make ICT progress easier. The project is part of a national ICT framework called “ICT2020″, a development blueprint affecting all parts of the economy, especially the government sector. The project consists of two main parts: a “smart network” project Continue reading…

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says cities need to innovate just as much as corporations—and offers prescriptions for how to do it. In an article in McKinsey&Co “What Matters” magazine, he mentions three key approaches that have helped him to get around challenges to drive innovation forward: Continue reading…

The Australian consulting firm  2thinknow has released its annual list of the most innovative cities in the world. It is the world’s largest city classification and ranking with 331 benchmark cities classified, and top 125 cities ranked in 2011. Continue reading…

To commemorate C. K. Prahalad’s work, strategy+business published an article that was in progress at the time of his death in April 2010. C.K. Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits Continue reading…

The report, “Centers, Cities, Clusters: Encouraging Innovation Through Sustainable Urban Design,” published by American Planning Association, focuses on sustainable economic development through case studies from Barcelona, Boston and Curitiba highlighting innovative strategies for economic development in urban cores. Continue reading…