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London: Europe’s smartest city

By Laura Puttkamer on Jun 29, 2023 10:00:00 AM

London is regularly voted as one of the smartest cities in the world. But what does smartness look like in the British capital? What is already going on and what are the next priorities for this city of the future? In this article you can read everything about it.

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Smart City Stockholm: A connected, sustainable, data-driven city

By Laura Puttkamer on May 17, 2023 9:30:00 AM

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the country’s largest city. Built on 14 islands and connected by over 50 bridges, the city boasts a beautiful old town as well as very modern buildings. In 2016, the city, with almost one million inhabitants, topped the Ericsson smart city index. Today, it has dropped by a few positions, but it still features in the top 30 of the world’s smartest cities. Here, we will learn more about Stockholm’s approach to the smart city.

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Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City

By Jon Glasco on Jun 18, 2022 11:38:16 AM

Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, Ljubljana is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jože Plečnik, an imaginative urban designer and architect whose work had a lasting impact on the built environment - such as the unique Triple Bridge which connects the city’s well-preserved medieval section with its commercial hub.

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Smart City Vilnius: Embracing the Arts and Cultural Heritage

By Jon Glasco on May 7, 2022 5:56:00 PM

After surviving decades of occupation by a foreign power, how does a city restore and capture the value of its strengths in the arts and cultural heritage? This is a question that Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, faced in the early 1990s after the country regained its independence from the Soviet Union.

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A Portrait of the Smart City Eindhoven

By Lisa Smith on Feb 27, 2018 10:43:53 PM

This smart city portrait provides an overview of the smart city approach and intelligent solutions implemented in the Dutch City of Eindhoven. For its achievements, especially in regard to open innovation, the City of Eindhoven was named the "Intelligent Community of the Year 2011" by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).

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A Portrait of the Smart Nation Singapore

By Lisa Smith on Feb 12, 2018 9:17:09 PM

This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City and nation-state of Singapore. Cities all over the world are applying new technologies to solve their problems and become smarter. Singapore’s take on technology, as endorsed by bee smart city, is that it should not be an end in itself – it should be made to serve the people, who should be firmly at the centre of the smart city concept. Singapore’s holistic strategy and innovative solutions can serve as best practice examples for many other cities around the world.

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Smart City Portrait Vienna: A Collaborative Smart City

By Lisa Smith on Jan 28, 2018 2:40:16 AM

This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the Austrian City of Vienna. The city has placed a strong focus on the collaborative nature of growing smarter. In 2014, Austria’s capital decided to adopt a strategy generated with the help of businesses, research institutes, public servants and private citizens to decide on the directions the city should take as it develops.

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Smart City Portrait: Barcelona

By Lisa Smith on Jan 22, 2018 12:02:31 AM

This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of Barcelona. The city is no newcomer to the smart city scene. In 2011 it launched a project designed to make the city more innovative, listing the sustainability of energy use and of mobility, open data initiatives, flexible smart services and social initiatives as key areas for development, and it encouraged connections among researchers in both the public and private sectors with a focus on these topics.

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Amsterdam Smart City: A World Leader in Smart City Development

By Lisa Smith on Dec 10, 2017 7:32:31 PM

This smart city portrait provides an overview on the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of Amsterdam. The Dutch capital city, is one of the early adopters of smart city strategies in Europe, following their strategic smart city approach since 2008. Today, the city is one of the leading smart cities in Europe.

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A Portrait of the Smart City Toronto

By Lisa Smith on Dec 9, 2017 3:38:35 PM

This smart city portrait provides an overview of the smart city strategy and intelligent solutions implemented in the City of Toronto. Canada's largest city has long been working on becoming smarter, being awarded the "Intelligent Community of the Year" by the Intelligent Community Forum in 2014. In 2015 the city made a big leap through a partnership with CityZenith. With a citizen-centric approach and the recently announced partnership with Google's Sidewalk Labs, the city now aspires to take another big leap forward to become one of the smartest North American cities.

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