by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Apr 14, 2013 | Smart Cities
Advancing equity — just and fair inclusion into a society in which everyone can participate and prosper — has often been viewed separate from, or even opposed to, efforts to foster economic competiveness and efficiencies in the marketplace. This webinar makes the case...
by Brett Hudson | Apr 5, 2013 | Smart Cities
This post is a response to a group blogging event organized by Meeting of the Minds and Tumml. Ubiquitous information and communication technology (ICT) holds overwhelmingly positive promise to bridge social and economic divides within cities. How? The rise of ICTs...
by Dave Hahn | Apr 5, 2013 | Announcements
MeetingoftheMinds’ photostream on Flickr.April 4th, 2013 at Churchill. A casual meet-up for sustainability and city-minded folks in San Francisco. Meets on the first Thursday of each month. More info at...
by Frank Teng | Apr 4, 2013 | Society
As urban spaces develop and places of nature are increasingly subject to the human touch, are we meeting our human needs for inspiration and beauty? As John Muir said, “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal...
by Gwyneth Borden | Apr 2, 2013 | Smart Cities
This post is a response to a group blogging event organized by Meeting of the Minds and Tumml. Cities around the globe are discovering the benefits of technology in engaging citizens, delivering better services, managing things like traffic congestion, pollution, and...
by Scott Paterson | Apr 2, 2013 | Smart Cities
This post is a response to a group blogging event organized by Meeting of the Minds and Tumml. When thinking about this question I find I’m focusing on division and how I might perceive how a division of any kind might be experienced. For starters, technology is...
by Charles Rutheiser | Apr 2, 2013 | Smart Cities
In his insightful mediation on the emergent nature of technology, What Technology Wants, the author Kevin Kelly makes the provocative assertion that our conventional ways of understanding and talking about technology are much too limited. Instead, he coins a new term...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Apr 2, 2013 | Smart Cities
This post is a response to a group blogging event organized by Meeting of the Minds and Tumml. Technology is not a panacea to solve urban poverty but recent innovations are starting to offer real solutions. The potential for technology to bridge social and economic...
by Tim Campbell & Daniella Ben-Attar | Apr 2, 2013 | Smart Cities
This post is a response to a group blogging event organized by Meeting of the Minds and Tumml. Citizens in the developing world, and especially the young, are increasingly connected to narrow band mobile phones, and these devices, as limited as they are, are having a...
by Dan Probst | Apr 1, 2013 | Smart Cities
The importance of replacing the outdated U.S. electrical grid with smart grid infrastructure can’t be overstated. The benefits include energy efficiency gains, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and increased opportunities to bring innovations that benefit cities and...
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