by Anna Prusa | Oct 31, 2017 | Governance, Technology
If you were mayor of your city, what would you do? Would you prioritize education over urban mobility? Would you build city parks or water treatment plants? Would you be able to find funds to implement your agenda, while maintaining sufficient approval ratings to get...
by Steve Poplawski | Oct 30, 2017 | Economy, Governance
In 1971, in Rules for Radicals, a book still used to train organizers looking to bring about social change, Saul Alinsky wrote about the use of the shareholder proxy process to influence corporations. Now, forty-six years later in 2017, empowered by the growth of...
by Bas Boorsma | Oct 26, 2017 | Economy, Society
In my recent book “A New Digital Deal” the various building blocks for successful smart city strategies have been examined and articulated. Among the most important: the delivery models and the business architectures that accompany them. The very notion of a “smart...
by Guneet Bedi | Oct 25, 2017 | Technology
We’ve been hearing that the IIoT will make everything better for manufacturers, and that once it takes off it will have as great an impact as the Industrial Revolution. But what are the actual benefits, and how exactly are they accomplished? Let’s get real, and list...
by Gayathri Thaikkendiyil | Oct 25, 2017 | Governance
Transparency is key to a fair and equitable government. That’s the mandate for San Francisco’s Ethics Commission, formed in 1993 to serve the public, city employees, officials, and candidates for public office, by educating and enforcing campaign finance, lobbying,...
by Milind Paranjape | Oct 23, 2017 | Economy, Technology
Innovation is a key to economic growth, and Ohio is on the leading edge. This is evident in the new ideas, processes and technologies that solve problems and forge new pathways forward. Ohio is home to, or connected with, numerous businesses, academic institutions,...
by Michael Taylor | Oct 19, 2017 | Governance, Society
Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood is as unique as it is typical. Once a solid, middle-class neighborhood situated between downtown Cleveland and the University Circle cultural area, Fairfax suffered from a loss of population over the decades and began to decline....
by Gadi Lenz | Oct 18, 2017 | Infrastructure, Mobility
Transportation Electrification When we hear about Transportation Electrification many of us tend to think of trains and railways, but over the last few years the intersection of Smart Transportation and Smart Grid has produced another player in this arena – the...
by Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM | Oct 17, 2017 | Infrastructure, Technology
There is no single definition of a city, much less a smart city. The most that one can say about the latter is that it is where the internet of things (IOT) and analytics are applied to public infrastructure, services and participation in the community. However, as a...
by Sean Wihera | Oct 16, 2017 | Environment, Technology
Cities around the world are spending billions of dollars to address urban pollution. London alone has pledged to spend over $1.1 billion over the next five years. We continue to see cities using a selection of classically used policies, such as vehicle restrictions by...
by Rimas Gulbinas | Oct 11, 2017 | Governance, Technology
For millennia, philosophers have been debating the ideal size and structure of a political entity to ensure effective governance. In Plato’s Laws, the ideal size of a ‘Polis’ was set at 5,040 households. City-states of the time were much larger, but Plato recognized...
by Rafael Gomez, Juan Gomez & Matias de Dovitiis | Oct 10, 2017 | Economy, Governance
What is Place-Based Industrial Strategy? A well-known North American institution, the Business Improvement Area (BIA), is being given a makeover in the northwest corner of Toronto, Canada, by mixing elements of top down industrial strategy and more “bottom-up” local...
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