City of the Future: Singapore
17/11/2020 – National Geographic
Transforming cities with technology
17/11/2020 – The Economist
Microsoft: Smart Places and Infrastructure with IoT, AI, and Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold, and cities face different challenges to make cities safer, resilient, accessible, sustainable and prosperous, urban planning strategies must adapt to change. With Digital Twins —a digital representation of a physical environment, urban planners can make better decisions with the help of data integration and visualization from across of the […]
[ui!] Urban Software Institute: Mobility for your whole life
Mobility for your whole life As Urban Mobility Innovations we use the "know-how" of the [ui!] family of companies to collect all existing urban data of a city, community, county or region from different IT systems. We do this with the support of our cloud-based smart mobility platform [ui!] UrbanPulse, in order to evaluate them […]
AI, image recognition and cloud computing: how do smart ports work?
Large commercial ports are cities within cities. And entire economies depend on them running with extreme efficiency.
Digital transformation is already revolutionising public healthcare as provided by regions
Scaling up innovative ideas continues to be a challenge when it comes to digital transformation. Regional governments are the perfect test labs for it.
Pablo Soto, regional representative of Transparency and Participation in Madrid: “Technology should be used to enhance institutions”
Madrid has been recognised by the UN as a model city in promoting citizen participation through technology in the decision making process
Recycling and economics: a formula that only works if you believe in it
Recycling is not just moving waste. The challenge of repurposing waste to create wealth should be explored, as some cities have shown already
The beginning of the end of cash: when advances in technology threaten the weakest
Financial and safety considerations make an argument for the end of cash, but this could have dire consequences for the old and disenfranchised
Will there be a digital divide between smart and dumb cities?
Smart cities separate themselves from the rest by focusing on citizens. Are we creating a new divide between them and those still pursuing older ideas?