A smart city is a municipality that uses information and communication technologies (ICT) to increase operational efficiency, share information with the public and improve both the quality of ...

Seeta Hariharan from Tata Consultancy Services shares insights and best practices that can benefit civic leaders who want to build smart cities. The global smart-city movement, which has been around ...

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More than a decade since the smart city concept gained traction, local governments continue shaping the general idea to suit their needs, with its purpose evolving from solution-based toward a ...

Smart city investment carries a demanding climate promise: digital systems should help urban economies grow while using energy more efficiently. Delivering that promise requires more than installing ...

The world’s population is becoming increasingly urbanized. Over the past century, millions of people have moved from the countryside, creating vast “mega-cities” – a term defined as a city with more ...

The definition of Smart City is far from being closed, but for the Brazil transport team that worked for more than three years with the City of São Paulo, the answer follows a clear logic: a city that ...

If a smart city is defined as a civilization that uses technology to support the community, then the origins of this concept date back at least to the Neanderthals. While the concept has, of course, ...