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30Sep
How Tel Aviv won the smart city award, without even knowing it is one?
Written by Ayal Zaum Did you know Tel Aviv is a smart city? It seems that even in the Tel Aviv municipality it was not known, until recently, with the international recognition the city has received, during the smart city expo in Barcelona. Smart city expo in Barcelona, which took…
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14Sep
The digital city is continuously growing
12 September 1969: a team of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) is the first to connect two machines with ARPAnet: one on UCLA and one on the Stanford-university in Palo Alto. Few people know that’s the day the internet was invented. Almost 50 years ago. But it…
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11Sep
The rise of the Microtransit movement
Three main trends in transportation Technology site Techcrunch recently reported on three main trends reshaping the future of mobility: on electric, driverless and on demand. These three developments, each in their own stage of development, are collectively reshaping mobility in the 21th century and might be the solution to fast…
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01Aug
Thinking in The Long Tail
The digital city, where everything is connected to the internet, makes thinking in the long tail possible: tailored solutions for people who don’t fit in mainstream solutions. Chris Anderson came up with this name as a philosophy for this age of internet: the long tail. He first mentioned it in…
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27Jul
Smart Mobility: Disruption on three levels
The city challenged Due to advancements in ICT, such as Big Data and the Internet of Things, the rate of technological improvement is exponentially accelerating. As a result of ‘Moore’s Law’, the impact of ICT on society in general –including urbanism- is also expected to increase in an exponential manner,…
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22Jul
The definition of ”smart”
A blog on what ‘smart’ is. Exploring smartness is inevitable as concepts like ‘smart city’ take hold, as panacea it often seems. The more we know the easier it is to find the right approach to what currently seem intractable problems. Such is the assumption. In this atmosphere wisely defining…
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20Jul
Five trends in smarter cities in the Netherlands
Recently a magazine asked me to name my personal five trends in smarter cities. Though there are many more, a number of trends came to me immediately – based on what I’ve seen at the recent Smart City Event in the Amsterdam Arena, and the Smartest-City-of-Holland-election (where I performed as…
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09Jun
Smart City Event 2015 – looking back on three days of looking ahead
From June 3th till Friday 5th the annual International Smart City Event took place in the Amsterdam Arena. It was the fifth edition, and for me the third visit. In my view, the event has become more mature. Last two years centered mostly around examples and pilots, and with a…
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