The title of his book says it all. ‘SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia’. In one sentence urbanist and research director at the Institute of the Future, Anthony Townsend captures the dilemma of the cities of the future. Townsend, one of the keynote…

Written by Vitor Pereira Porto wants to take the lead in research, development and promotion of new technologies in the city. The Conference “Future Cities 2014”, took place last week in the old monastery of São Bento da Vitória demonstrated just that, with the presentation of numerous solutions that are being…

Most of you who are familiar with the concept of Smart City (however broad or narrow you define this), and you probably know several commentaries and models of subjects that are part of it. I follow my own classification based on the spatial part of cities. I will elaborate on…

Written by Maikel Bouricius The Interreg IVC project GreenITNet is a collaboration between 10 European cities from 9 different countries. The project focuses on the activation of European cities with a high sustainable energy ambition, a strong ICT technology potential and previous experience in Green IT. Green IT Amsterdam is one…

29 and 30 May the Smart City Event 2013 took place. Two inspiring days at the Amsterdam Rai. This event has now been organised for the third year. Because of the big attendance, it is noticeable that the concept of Smart Cities addresses many people and keep them occupied. I…