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The Evolution of Travel: How Prague Uses Data to Create Innovative Tourism Models | Destination Cities: Accelerating Urban Tourism and Economies

During a recent convening hosted by The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard and City Possible, Jana Adamcova, a board member at Prague City Tourism, outlined the city’s approach to revitalizing tourism that was negatively impacted by the pandemic. Tourism in the Czech Republic is heavily concentrated in the nation’s capital, which devastated Prague’s local […]

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Smart Cities and Mobility: A Look to 2049 and What the Future May Hold

Mobility and the many challenges it brings to cities across the globe is a subject that comes up often at our Smart City Innovation Accelerator events. We’ve heard from city leaders in Chennai, India, who are currently creating the largest parking management system in their country, if not the world, to offset a massive issue

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Inspiring Civic Innovation: Real-World Strategies That Work

Civic innovation may not have one single definition, but when broken down to the components of ‘civic’ and ‘innovation’ we may broadly agree that it has something to do with finding new solutions to problems that impact citizens. Here we explain the various angles by which leaders may inspire civic innovation in their cities, with

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Making the Urban Innovation Spiral Happen: Why, How, Where

As urban practitioners, we are increasingly interested in cities as solution providers for problems. The aqueduct of Segovia (Spain) is an example of how cities, in the Roman era, solved the problem of access to drinkable water thanks to a smart invention. Today it attracts hoards of tourists while giving a distinct identity to the

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IoT: What Works, What Doesn’t and What We Care About

In 1997, the Smart Cities World Forum predicted that there would be 50,000 smart cities across the world by 2007. It is currently 2017, and this prediction has sadly not yet come true. In the context of where we are with IoT, there are some fantastic things that have happened, but there’s not the progress

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Scaling Pilot Projects Into Bigger Solutions: Challenges and Possible Solutions

European cities are taking several approaches to technology and innovation in order to become smart cities of the future. Analyzing the current case studies, one can start to see what does and doesn’t work when scaling pet projects and small pilots into larger solutions. Here are some insights. Biggest Challenges with Scaling Although smart city

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Tips for Creating a Coherent Governance Model for Smart Cities Work

There are many players involved in the successful implementation of smart city solutions, but the specific role of governance should also be a top concern. One of the challenges of smart city initiatives is that there are often small pockets of innovation activity across the city but no overall coherence. Local governance can help guide

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Smart City Collaboration: Why Those Who Share, Win

Getting to know people, their plans, ambitions and collaboration strategies, and how they tackle challenges in different cities and countries around the world is what brings value over time. After dissecting roughly 100 Smart Cities case studies over the last couple months, here are five takeaways. 1. Citizen Focus Trumps Everything Else The message comes

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Collecting Data that Serves (and Matters to) the Community and Beyond

Jonathan Wisbey, Chief Technology Officer in New Orleans, believes the smart city journey starts at the community level; where people have the best sense of how you can help them and how you can get them the data and information they need to help them live their lives to the extent that they want to.

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Accelerating Growth: Lessons from Las Vegas Smart City Ventures

Michael Sherwood has been the director of Information Technology for the city of Las Vegas since 2016, and in that time he has worked on hundreds of smart city projects in an effort to bring new technology and new possibilities to the city. Here are some of the key things he has learned along the

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