68% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050, according to the UN, a significant increase on the 56% who did in 2020, but the rates at and success with which cities are incorporating digital technologies into their fabrics vary substantially.
Digital twins of buildings and cities could become an essential tool in the battle against climate change, according to technology experts.
These virtual replicas – computer models that use live data to create simulations of real-world objects and systems – can reduce the energy consumption of buildings in operation, proponents claim.
Pour des questions de coût, de souveraineté et de contrôle de ses choix futurs, la métropole de Toulouse choisit de développer sa propre plateforme de stockage et de croisement de données.
Technological change is a crucial aspect for achieving the green economy and fostering green growth, with open source software promoting collaboration in urban centres to solve climate change and resource scarcity challenges.
A new approach to data sharing outlined by the European Commission (EC) last week could accelerate smart city initiatives. Potential benefits include more advanced solutions to climate change, health and mobility challenges; better ability to port innovation between cities; and new personalised services for residents.
Implementation of Munich’s smart-city infrastructure will reduce CO2 emissions by 34,000 tonnes per year. Blockchain can be used to decentralize federated learning algorithms so that the benefits of collective machine learning are shared across the multiple owners of data. And, in Munich, it is helping commuters efficiently find a parking space. Cambridge, UK-based artificial intelligence …
How FIWARE is driving the development of smart digital solutions in a faster, easier, interoperable and affordable way that avoids vendor lock-in scenarios.
Data-driven smart cities are rapidly emerging across various parts of the world, becoming more attractive places to live. These cities are heavily reliant on open data and yet, in reality, data is still published in an unusable way for the majority of data analysis that needs to take place.
Both citizens and city officials can benefit from the platform’s web services that facilitate daily activities, ranging from urban mobility to environmental monitoring. The platform gives access to readily organised and visualised information, without the need to go through raw data. This provides the city with unparalleled transparency across policy areas for monitoring and benchmarking, while promoting citizen participation in shaping the future of the city.
Technology gives us an opportunity to make cities more open, inclusive and democratic. But only if it's used in the right way, says Barcelona's chief technology officer, Francesca Bria
De la remunicipalisation de l’eau à la régulation d’Airbnb et Uber, en passant par la mise en œuvre de la transition énergétique et les luttes pour le logement et contre la spéculation immobilière, d’innombrables batailles se livrent en Europe opposant, d’un côté, des multinationales et des géants de la finance, et de l’autre les villes et leurs citoyens. Notre nouvelle publication Villes contre multinationales propose un aperçu d’ensemble de cette confrontation où se joue l’avenir de la transition écologique et sociale.
The Pamplona City Council organised a workshop on Smart cities and Living Labs, where the results of the first edition of the Smart Iruña Lab programme were presented. It included interesting presentations on the local innovation ecosystem and the evolving Entrepreneurial Discovery Process
We, decision makers at all levels of government together with organisations and networks of cities and communities of all sizes1, believe that strong cooperation through multi-level governance in the EU and co-creation with citizens are key to our mission of turning our cities and communities into smart and sustainable places where people enjoy living and working. We aim for a cohesive, digital Europe, where every community can enjoy the economic and social benefits of this transformation, while making sure not to leave anyone behind2. We therefore underline the need for sufficient public and private investment in digital services, technologies, infrastructures and skills to achieve this goal.
Zurich, Lausanne et Genève sont aux premiers rangs du troisième Smart Cities Index de la Business School lausannoise IMD, qui mesure la capacité des autorités locales à mettre la technologie au service des citoyens
Localtis : Le gouvernement a lancé le 27 octobre 2021 un appel à projets doté de 30 millions d’euros pour soutenir les projets "structurants" de territoires connectés. Car, comme le révèle un état des lieux publié à cette occasion, la multiplication des projets sans vision partagée du territoire intelligent nuit à leur généralisation.
Au nom de l'efficacité et de la modernité, la fuite en avant technologique n'est pas sans poser problème, à commencer par une trop grande consommation des ressources de la planète. Et une perte de sens de certains investissements. Loin de la smart city, les adeptes des "low tech" veulent penser la ville avec discernement, sobriété, en réinterrogeant ses besoins avec des solutions moins technologiques.
In a context where digital giants are increasingly influencing the actions decided by public policies, smart data platforms are a tool for collecting a great deal of information on the territory and a means of producing effective public policies to meet contemporary challenges, improve the quality of the city, and create new services. Within the framework of the Smarter Together project, the cities of Lyon (France), Munich (Germany), and Vienna (Austria) have integrated this tool into their city’s metabolism and use it at different scales. Nevertheless, the principle remains the same: the collection (or even dissemination) of internal and external data to the administration will enable the communities, companies, not-for-profit organizations, and civic administrations to “measure” the city and identify areas for improvement in the territory. Furthermore, through open data logics, public authorities can encourage external partners to become actors in territorial action by using findings from the data to produce services that will contribute to the development of the territory and increase the quality of the city and its infrastructure. Nevertheless, based on data that is relatively complex to extract and process, public data platforms raise many legal, technical, economic, and social issues. The cities either avoided collecting personal data or when dealing with sensitive data, use anonymized aggregated data. Cocreation activities with municipal, commercial, civil society stakeholders, and citizens adopted the strategies and tools of the intelligent data platforms to develop new urban mobility and government informational services for both citizens and public authorities. The data platforms are evolving for transparent alignment with 2030 climate-neutrality objectives while municipalities strive for greater agility to respond to disruptive events like the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the fourth chapter of The Wonk’s Survival Guide to the European Green Deal, POLITICO looks at the technological breakthroughs the European Union will need to become climate neutral.
The first energy community offering citizens and about 900 companies in the Pilastro-Roveri district reduced tariffs thanks to a combination of renewable sources, distributed generation, energy storage and optimization of consumption, is kicking off in Bologna.
The FIWARE Energy Day brought together private and public businesses, academia, and developers to learn about how standards are driving the development and integration of Smart Energy solutions and platforms. Discover how the once direct value chain is now transforming itself into complex ecosystems facilitated through Open Source strategies. Consumers are becoming prosumers. Supply and demand are optimized in real-time and at a very granular level. The need for flexibility has, therefore, grown notably with the innovations of renewable energy resources, batteries, power electronics, electric mobility, blockchain, and rapid digitalization. The FIWARE Energy Day showcases European projects, global developments, business model innovations with FIWARE.
The Digital Twin concept is the latest technology dominating the smart city hype cycle. While the technology has already been around for decades in engineering, thanks to more powerful processing and cloud storage, it has now entered the realm of city planning.
Cities and communities around the world are looking for ways to harness innovative services and to make the digital transformation impactful for the public administration and the citizens. The guide to SynchroniCity is now offering support to set the foundations for a sustainable digital transformation – validated by 21 cities across Europe in a 3-year project and adopted by the more than 150 member cities of the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network.
How can we digitalize our cities in the most efficient way? Should we? The panel discusses how urban governance can benefit from a digital transition and the void created when technology backfires.
The STARDUST project has released a series of short, easy-to-understand videos featuring all of its seven cities namely Pamplona, Tampere, Trento, Cluj-Napoca, Derry, Kozani and Litoměřice. The goal is to invite everyone to dig deeper and partake in its campaign in replicating smart urban solutions across Europe
La safe city, déclinaison sécuritaire de la smart city, occupe les débats depuis plusieurs mois. La voilà désormais à la barre du tribunal administratif de Marseille. En cause, la mise en place de la vidéosurveillance automatisée par la ville, qui a lancé par ailleurs son « observatoire Big data de la tranquillité »
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