Human rights aspects in India’s Smart City Mission: a study by HLRN, India

Posted at 30 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

India’s Smart Cities Mission aims to create 100 ‘smart cities’ in the country by the year 2020. The Mission, one of the most publicized among the many slogan-led schemes of the National Democratic Alliance government, is characterized by ambitious goals, large planned investments, multiple private sector actors, and new governance structures induced by the corporatization of cities. As the Mission completed two years in June 2017, the Housing and Land Rights Network of India (HLRN) examines how it has unfolded and what exactly it means for India’s urban

EasyPark: 2017 Smart Cities Index

Posted at 27 November 2017 in IntelCities Measurement, Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

EasyPark recently published a very interesting interactive report on the 2017 Smart Cities Index. To create the index, they first studied over 500 cities worldwide, looking at countries with very high and medium

Scientific American: The Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities

Posted at 25 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Plans for more wired, networked, connected urban areas face challenges if they fail to account for existing, local, non-digital elements such as government and socioeconomic conditions -by Kendra L. Smith. Last week we learned that tech guru and mega philanthropist Bill Gates

The Financial Times: Smart cities might not be such a bright idea

Posted at 24 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Anjana Ahuja, Science Commentator of FT.com, comments that it is a fallacy to think that more data, by itself, can make life better. The future is not just bright but blindingly illuminated, if one buys into the buzz around “smart cities”. Bill Gates is rumoured to be building one

Futuristic smart cities under development: Tech titans and utopia fever

Posted at 21 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

Maybe it’s the sudden flurry of flying car proposals or the hype over hyperloop, but it seems like tech companies are finally ready to build the cities of the future we’ve been obsessing about in films for years.

Smart city technology, a combination of Internet of Things connectivity and massive technological integration at the metro level, has long been a

Bill Gates plans to build a smart city in the Arizona desert

Posted at 20 November 2017 in Intelligent Cities / Smart Cities

An investment firm controlled by the Microsoft co-founder buys land for a city that will feature cutting-edge tech at its core. Bill Gates can see the future — in the Arizona desert. The investment firm, controlled by the Microsoft co-founder, has bought nearly 25,000 acres about 45 miles west of Phoenix to build a smart city, a community built from the ground up with the idea of integrating technology into its residents’ lives. The proposed community, known as Belmont, would serve as a “template” for development of

The European Commission awards Paris as most innovative European city in 2017

Posted at 10 November 2017 in Innovative Cities & Regions