A Business Continuity Management System is crucial for smart places wanting to maintain uninterrupted services, enhance resilience, protect critical infrastructure, build stakeholder confidence, comply with regulations, and facilitate collaboration. By investing in a robust BCMS, smart places can…

In partnership with Spark IoT, Selwyn District Council is the first New Zealand organisation to embark on an innovative digital community engagement service offering, which aims to deliver a more personalised user experience for the local community outside of existing digital and social media…

As well as the business aspects of a tender for a counting application, there are several technical aspects that reviewers should be aware of. This white paper discusses those technical aspects in detail. These can be divided into the following areas:  Performance  Data format, access, etc …

The Singapore government listed the Punggol Digital District (PDD) as the first “Smart Business District” in Singapore in the submission of their Smart City Action Plan (SCAP) in the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). My first article for this Thought Leadership series provided lessons from PDD,…

Smart Cities Council was proud to hold the Sustainability Innovations Summit in Washington, D.C. this April. The event took place at the National Press Club and welcomed a lot of incredible speakers from the public and private sectors.  Take a look at the recordings from the sessions. Energy and…

Smart Cities Council and Global Affairs Canada have joined to bring you three webinar episodes focusing on accelarating and optimizing smart city journeys. Hosted by Alby Boccanegra, Furturist in Residence with Smart Cities Council, each webinar focuses on introducing Canadian solution providers…

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…