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24Apr
Rob van Gijzel; A great challenge in redeveloping our structural systems like mobility, health and energy
All our structural systems like mobility, health, energy and raw materials, they need to be redeveloped, to be reinvented and that’s something that is giving us a great challenge. You cannot do it only as a government, you have to be involved in what we call the partners, the stakeholders in…
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23Apr
Smart Cities Spanish Network keeps growing
Written by Vitor Pereira Twelve new Spanish municipalities were integrated at Spanish Network of Smart Cities (SNSC). Since last April 17, this network includes Alcorcón, Aranjuez, Móstoles y Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Ávila, Badajoz, Oviedo (Asturias), Palma de Mallorca, Ponferrada (León), Sevilla, Tarragona y Torrent (Valencia). There are now 41…
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21Apr
SmartSantander City – EAR-IT project
Smart City of the Week: Santander Prior to the Smart City Event we will weekly highlight an interesting Smart City project. This week: The City of Santander. Are you interested in becoming Smart City of the week? Please fill in the form. Foreword We will introduce here the SmartSantander project…
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21Apr
Boyd Cohen: ‘The Smart City Wheel’
I have had the privilege of living in some of the great cities in the Western hemisphere since graduating from university in 1993. These include Atlanta, Georgia; Boulder/Denver, Colorado; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Copenhagen, Denmark; Madrid, Spain; Santiago, Chile; and Vancouver, Canada. I love cities. Especially those full of culture, dynamic,…
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12Apr
Yeah… Smarter Cities; but why?
A smart city is what we all want, right? But why, actually? And what is a smart city? What’s in it for me? In my former blog “Smart City: future or empty hype” I commented on smart cities being an empty hype, but also stated that much is going on in…
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10Apr
You want engagement? Get involved!
Written by Manon den Dunnen Smart City programs in general aim for a sustainable and livable city and do so by stimulating innovation and collaboration between governance, business, and knowledge institutes. For me this means changing people’s behavior for the long run. But to realize that, citizens have to get…
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31Mar
“Focussing on existing solutions will not make the difference”
Interview with Joost Brinkman, Lead, Accenture Sustainable Services and Ronald Warmerdam, Senior Project Manager, Project Management Bureau, City of Amsterdam, Coordinator TRANSFORM, Lecturer, Technical University of Delft. For me smart cities are cities where people are working on improving the liveability of cities and especially for me as a transform co-ordinator it…
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28Mar
Let’s go back to the future!
Written by David Tuinzing “How can we change the behavior of our citizens so they will use our products that lead us to a smarter city?” This is a top issue during various smart city events that I visited last month. Generally, the municipal leaders and representatives of corporate companies…
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