Pilot Cities. The Key To Being A Smart City Is Good Governance: “Smart Governance” What’s it take to be a smart city?
Is it smart transportation, such as sensors in parking spaces that call out to drivers like sirens calling to Ulysses as he headed back to Ithaca? Or parking meters sending SMS messages to alert those parked that their time is up, like a baby bird calling to be fed? Is it smart buildings that turn the lights on when you enter or off when you leave? Is it smart waste management? Is it smart energy grids? Increasingly, city leaders are adopting enterprise management practices – and technologies – in order to improve city governance. Match budgeted spending with performance objectives.Adopt enterprise apps such as EAM, ERP, and CRM in shared or cloud models.Appoint professional operational and IT management to coordinate.Implement regular process and performance reviews – and supporting technologies.Establish integrated reporting for greater transparency.
All of these provide opportunities for technology vendors and service providers. Www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_EN_SmartGrids_Pilots_Report_2010. Top ten reasons why people like living in a smart city. Getting smart about smart cities. Www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_SmartGrid_Investments_Report_2009. Smart-communities-white-paper. Sustainable Montreal. The future of waste collection? Underground automated waste conveying systems. As waste management operations all over the world attempt to become cleaner and greener in the face of new legislation, some companies are looking to move away from the older systems of collecting and transporting waste by road and are taking the whole thing underground.
Here, we take a look at underground pneumatic waste conveying systems and explain the benefits ... by Katariina Honkio Even though pneumatic waste collection systems have been around for decades, they are experiencing an upsurge in popularity, as cities are becoming increasingly aware of the problems related to conventional methods of waste collection.
The trend to incorporate automated waste collection systems into new housing development projects is rising, particularly in Europe, and in Asia where South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are leading the way in implementing this type of technology. How it works … The refuse is then transported along the pipelines into containers at the waste station. [Native Advertisement] Waste Land (2010) - Plot Summary. Systems development for Public infrastructure. Human Behaviour Considerations for Smart Cities. Future Cities Special Interest Group - Background Themes and Reports - Open Innovation. Smart City Research Potential. Harnessing Residents' Electronic Devices Will Yield Truly Smart Cities. On January 25 the streets of Cairo erupted in protest against then president Hosni Mubarak’s repressive Egyptian regime.
Over the next 72 hours the government shut down the country’s Internet service and mobile-phone system in an attempt to squelch the rebellion—to no avail: a rich ecosystem of Facebook conversations, Twitter outbursts and chat-room plans had already unified millions of Cairo’s people, who continued the relentless uprising. The government backed down and restored communications to keep the country’s economy on life support, but the masses kept up the pressure until Mubarak resigned 14 days later. Just weeks before, during Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution,” dissident blogger and protest organizer Slim Amamou used the mobile social app Foursquare to alert his friends of his January 6 arrest.
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