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Forming Innovative Partnerships: Fireside Chat with Carlos Menendez from Mastercard

Carlos Menendez, President of the Enterprise Partnerships Group at Mastercard, sat down with Dr. David S. Ricketts, Harvard Innovation Fellow, for a fireside chat about innovative ways companies can find partners and make an impact globally. Carlos shared two example cases on the way Mastercard has approached innovative partnerships and their resulting impact. Helping Micro-Entrepreneurs […]

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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 is a huge area for smart cities, and although a particular topic could have been chosen, it is also valuable to go into the discussion without bias. What does sustainability mean to each city? What

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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, infrastructure and housing Mobility challenges and congestion Climate change Air pollution, water, and sanitation Energy and sustainability Rapidly changing technology Competitiveness and ability to attract global talent A smart city strategy can help solve and

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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 when the government put together a program called the Future Transportation Program, created in order to plan out a once-in-a-generation infrastructure uplift. With a $100 billion investment on the line, they did not want to

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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 allows cities to make smarter decisions that impact communities. During the Data and Privacy Panel at the Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne, city officials gathered to share their thoughts on a variety of questions

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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 plan around and work with the existing infrastructure and layout of the city. At the Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator at Melbourne, the head of the City Lab team in Melbourne, and representatives from Estrella Group

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