OpenUrban is an open source user – generated web map and forum focusing on current and proposed urban development. It is a web platform for civic collaboration, a venue for debate, and an outlet and archive for information on urban development.
Watch: Intelligent / Smart Cities Solutions
Smart Grids are critical components of Smart Cities. Looking to the future, Brazil is currently making smart grid investments to help improve the reliability of electric infrastructure, and enable economic growth and environmental sustainability.
ICOS marks one thousand (1.000) short articles since the start of URENIO Watch on Intelligent Cities – Smart Cities – Innovation Ecosystems in 2005. The acronym stands for Intelligent Cities Open Source, a community of developers, planners, engineers, and users working in the field of intelligent / smart cities.
In their efforts to manage cities more effectively and efficiently, many local administrations are turning to “urban informatics’’”the use of information and communications technology to better understand metropolitan needs, challenges, and opportunities. McKinsey conducted research to determine which applications of urban informatics were being piloted around the world and what type of impact these efforts were having.