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A major sporting facility in the City of Bunbury recently underwent a digital transformation to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency, with help from VROC.  'These automations work together to help optimise the Cities resources, and improve services to the community.' - Mal Osborne,…
Washington DC based Smart Cities Council, the world’s largest and longest-running Smart Cities Social Impact Organization, has entered a global Education and Training Partnership between Smart Cities Academy and Barcelona-based ZIGURAT Institute of Technology.  LEARN MORE In addition to building…
We're looking for fresh minds, great attitudes and people hungry for hands-on experience within the longest-running global smart cities community. Company Description The Smart Cities Council is a global member organization dedicated to championing the use of science, data, technology, and…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Smart Cities Council, along with key members and partners from across Australia and New Zealand, presented a use case-focused webinar on 26 April 2023.  The webinar looked at the detection of natural disasters and public sector preparedness, covering the role…
We were joined by members and partners in Brisbane for a one-day event that brought together leaders and decision-makers from both Queensland and New Zealand public and private sector as well as academia to launch the Task Forces established from the Summit under our global initiative, Everyone.…
Our members and friends at City of Melbourne have some exciting new projects and use cases to share from their Smart City Incubator. Smart Cities Council was thrilled to host the Smart Cities Week 2023 in Melbourne and enjoyed this beautiful city so much. We are proud to share their clever projects…
In April 2022, Smart Cities Council representatives spoke at Indonesia’s APEC Conference on ‘Smart City Standards for Sustainable Cities and Communities’. It was an interesting discussion around standards being a powerful tool to connect local government and private sector, and to enable scale in…
In the last few years, cities are beginning to brand themselves as “smart cities” or “sustainable cities” or “smart and sustainable cities”. This is partly to tap on the increased awareness of the potential for these cities where funding and investments options are now more widely available…
EB Research Partnership (EBRP) was founded in 2010 by a group of parents dedicated to saving their children’s lives along with Jill and Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) with one bold audacious goal: treat and cure the devastating and life-threatening genetic rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa (EB) by…
Smart Cities Week 2023 took place February 6-10 and the last day of the week was hosted by AWS. Councils and placemaking specialists shared examples of smart cities solutions in action during this AWS Academy Day.   We heard first-hand how the combination of sensors, data analytics and AI/ML are…
We are excited to announce that Alby Bocanegra joins the Smart Cities Council team as Futurist in Residence. Alby's role with the council will be to drive the adoption of future technologies, sharing insights into the predicted impact and implications on cities, regions and towns, their residents…
We hope you were able to join us for #SmartCitiesWeek2023 in Melbourne last month. If not, here is what you missed from our partners at Amazon Web Services (AWS) As a platinum sponsor, AWS was able to deliver multiple roundtable and deep dive sessions focused on smart cities, digital twins and…
We kicked off Smart Cities Week 2023 with online sessions on Monday and Tuesday on various topics, such as digital twins, digital construction industry and wellness. We will be making these online sessions available through our website for those that missed them.  Swinburne University of…
The Punggol Digital District (“PDD”) was listed as one of the projects in the Singapore’s Smart City Action Plan in the Monitoring and Evaluation Report of the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN), published on 21st of September 2022.     Below are five important lessons from this project. 1. The…
Murat Balcioglu, Country Director for Smart Cities Council Turkey, is coordinating efforts to provide relief to those affected by the two devastating 7.7 and 7.6 magnitude earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş. Overview  Affected Cities : 10  Affected Population : 13 million  Current Deads : 32,000 …