…ate. In the United Kingdom, the great cities of the north barely register when it comes to international measures of size, happiness, innovation, sustainability, or growth, as a comprehensive review of global city indices in 2011 by Greg Clark illustrated. However, reality for anyone who knows these cities seems to contradict this lack of representation. My appraisal of this dichotomy is that when political boundaries alone define a city, this e…

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Tags: economic development, IBSG, Internet of Everything, IoE, IoE Economy, Smart Cities, value at stake

…orum (ICF), a New York City-based group “dedicated to economic growth in the broadband community for communities large and small,” has been designating seven “intelligent communities of the year” since 2002. Winners since that year have been on every settled continent except Africa, and include names you might expect (Seoul, South Korea) and names you wouldn’t (Tallinn, Estonia). Earlier in June, it named this year&#…

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Tags: broadband, fiber network, infrastructure, intelligent community, local government, wi-fi

…we hope to create the level of innovation and socio-economic development needed to bolster the city’s sustainability, growth and global competitiveness.   As the fifth most heavily populated city in France, Nice sits on 28 square miles of land and houses around 350,000 citizens. Projects that are being put into place will largely focus on improving quality of life, creating jobs, sustaining the appeal of local industries and maintaining ove…

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Tags: France, nice, S+CC, Smart Cities

Cisco and Control4 have signed a strategic agreement to deliver network-enabled automation platforms for connected smart communities and home energy deployments around the world.  Cisco is leading an investment in Control4, and the collaboration between the two companies includes the integration of Control4® technology into Cisco’s Service Delivery Platform and the introduction of Cisco-branded Control4® products.  Additionally, Control4 will be…

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…Internet. Cisco has been actively working on the promotion of IPv6 for smart object networks by co-founding new alliances and co-specifying new IPv6 protocols with other industrial partners and end-users. For example in Sept 2008, Cisco co-founded the IP for Smart Objects alliance (IPSO: http://www.ipso-alliance.org/), an industry grouping of 57 member organizations with the mission of defining and shaping the Internet of Things. The IPv6 protoc…

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