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10 Steps to Improve Collaboration in Local Government

“As a CIO coming in, I asked the city manager, ‘Who does the integration across 40 departments?’ And she said, […]

The Many Angles of Sustainability: Waste Management, Trees, and Traffic

The Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne included a Sustainability and Environment Panel that was deliberately vague in scope. Sustainability […]

7 Elements of a Successful Smart City Strategy

Smart Cities around the world are all facing similar pressures: Rapid urbanization The pressure that growing populations have on systems, […]

Tackling a Once-in-a-Generation Infrastructure Uplift in New South Wales

New South Wales has been doing smart city mobility projects since around 2012, but all of that accelerated in 2016 […]

City Leaders Answer 5 Important Questions about Data and Privacy

The word ‘smart cities’ is often associated with technology, but it’s the data that comes from that technology that actually […]

4 Principles to Guide Smart Projects in the Built Environment

Cities today are having to deal with the issue of adding technology to an already-built environment, requiring city leaders to […]