3 Big Ideas for the Smart City of 2050
This blog post is a response to the Dear 2015 group blogging event prompt: The year is 2050. Write a letter to the people of 2015 describing what your city is like, and give them advice on the next 35 years. For more responses, see the Dear 2015 Event Page. As much as...
A Look Back at Meeting of the Minds Workshop Tour #3: How Future Mobility Solutions Can Co-Exist: The Complete Street of 2030
The workshop’s welcome briefing from NextEnergy’s President – Jean Redfield – laid out a clear message for this workshop tour: the challenges facing clean/smart energy are, to a growing extent, converging with the challenges facing clean/smart mobility....
Accelerating Economic Opportunity With Open Urban Data
This blog post is a response to the Meeting of the Minds & Living Cities group blogging event which asks, “How could cities better connect all their residents to economic opportunity?” Opening up economic opportunities to those who’ve been left out...
Is A Connected Real Estate Revolution Upon Us?
Imagine going to work in a high-performance, “smart” building every day. Workers could take advantage of flexible and productive workspaces, wireless and mobile capabilities, and remote, collaborative technology. “Smart” buildings can virtually connect systems and...
Ontario’s $50 Million Smart Grid Fund 2013
The Government of Ontario launched the second round of a $50 million Smart Grid Fund (SGF). The SGF will support high-value opportunities to advance energy innovation in Ontario. The Ministry of Energy will award the funding in the form of a conditional grant. The SGF...
Construction Begins on Kenyan Smart City
The development of Konza Technology City – dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Savannah” – is finally underway, following a ground breaking ceremony by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on January 23, 2013. Konza Technology City is a US$7-10.0 billion Greenfield project to be...
City of Glasgow Wins £24 Million to Build Future Cities Demonstrator
To stimulate the national economy, the United Kingdom government has organized initiatives to promote various industries. These initiatives are called catapults. One of these catapults was organized by the UK’s Technology Strategy Board to focus on a...
The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation
Click the video above to hear San Francisco’s Chief Innovation Officer, Jay Nath, talk about the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation. There’s really nothing quite like it inside the hundred upon hundreds of US city governments: The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of...
The Smartest Building in the USA
With the completion of the Duke Energy Center (DEC) in Charlotte (North Carolina, USA), the path has been laid for smart buildings to become the new standard in commercial real estate. What exactly does it take to be the smartest building in America? When they decided...