What’s Going on in State & Local?
State and local governments face many challenges and opportunities. Here are some ways they’re meeting them now.
Posts Tagged: smart cities
What Is Civic Inclusion and Why Does it Matter?
What occurs in a community is geographically personal. Regardless of who you are, as a resident of your community, you care about where you live.
A Preview of the Smart City of the Future
We’ve identified three mega trends that anyone interested in the future of cities should care about: data as a fuel for progress, intelligent experiences, and autonomous entities. Let’s explore each.
Intelligent Automation for Actionable Insight and Cost Reduction
It is important for cities to understand and adopt intelligent automation to advance their smart cities strategy, or risk falling behind.
How Can Mobility as a Service Enable Smart Cities?
Cities everywhere are coping with increased urbanization, and are struggling to provide mobility choices to their citizens. MaaS aims to help cities provide choice for their citizens, while facilitating smart city initiatives with cost savings and improved efficiencies.
The Heart of Smart Communities: Location
Geographic information system (GIS) software can help create smart communities by capturing, storing, managing and presenting geographic data.
Academia Helps Cities Define Their Smart Cities Strategies
Public sector leaders need all the help that they can get in defining their Smart Cities strategy. With programs like the Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator by Harvard, it’s clear that academia is leading the way in offering this guidance.
Digital Literacy: A Foundation for Successful Smarter Cities
To navigate and succeed in this digital environment will require consciously acquiring new skills, and updating existing ones. Digital Literacy is the new mantra and needed call to action for all of us.
The Next Frontier of Smart Cities: Intelligent Communities
What makes a community intelligent? How is it different from a smart city?
Innovation in Government: A Building Block to Smart Cities
Local governments are recognizing that in order to innovate, they need to act upon new ideas, as well as focus on new ways of delivering services.