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Top 5 Smart City Predictions: AI and the Birth of Self-Aware Cities
GovernmentWhat will cities look like in the future? With the birth of Machine Learning, explosion in Artificial Intelligence and our increasingly Tech-Centric culture, they may look much different than most
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Inside One Asian City’s Strategy
GovernmentBusan is at the forefront of something big. As South Korea’s second-largest metropolitan city, Busan boasts a population of about 3.6 million, and is home to a slew of major
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New ways of governing: the Lincoln Institute’s approach promises something better
GovernmentHow can advanced network technology help governments to ‘listen better’ and ‘listen smarter?’ This is not a rhetorical question: planning has traditionally been a top-down affair, and this approach has,
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Arriving Soon in San Francisco – Meeting of the Minds 2012
GovernmentSmarter and more connected communities – that’s not just a pretty vision, far off into the future. They are being built now, often on the basis of a renewed and
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Cities Are Coming of Age
GovernmentCisco IBSG is engaging with some of the world’s most dynamic cities—for instance in San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Barcelona—to jointly explore how cities can harness new technology innovations. Success for
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Can SMART Solutions Create Better Places?
GovernmentThe title for this blog post is more than just the title of a blog post. It’s a question my Cisco colleagues and I have been pondering for quite some
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On the Road to SMART Cities: What Can we Learn from Asian City Leaders?
GovernmentI recently returned from Toronto Canada, where the global Association for Asian Studies (AAS) held its 2012 Annual Conference. This four day gathering brought together thousands of Asia-watchers devoted to
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Is Network Technology a Key Enabler for Smart Eco-City Development?
GovernmentEarlier this week, the US-China Green Energy Council convened an impressive seminar on “Smart Eco-City Development Progress: Connecting People in Unique, Innovative and Regenerative Communities.” Participants came to the discussion
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Show me the Money: the Debate Continues about Financing Urban Innovation
GovernmentHow exactly are companies and cities going to successfully finance dramatic upgrades of urban connectivity? When will the financial engineers develop the tools which, when used, result in smarter and
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A Tale of Two Cities Pursuing One Common Vision: The story of how urban economics, urban energy, urban environment get greener, cleaner, smarter because they’re better connected (Part Two of a two-part series)
GovernmentFollowing the conclusion of State of Green Business 2012, I boarded a plane to Vancouver with Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director, VantagePoint Venture Partners and one of my fellow panelists at
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