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Transforming Government Through Digitization - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. Transforming Government Through Digitization. December 19, 2016. By digitizing processes and making organizational changes, governments can enhance services, save money, and improve citizens’ quality of life. The core capabilities of a digital government. Governments typically center their digitization efforts on four capabilities: services, processes, decisions, and data sharing. For each, we believe there is a natural progression from quick wins to trans...

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Innovation and the City - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. Innovation and the City. December 15, 2016. Yet for all the innovative policies taking root in cities across the globe, there are few reliable mechanisms for sharing what is working. This effort is rooted in a unique partnership: the Center for an Urban Future, one of New York’s leading think tanks, paired with NYU Wagner, a public service graduate school known for blending theory and practice. The entire project has been supported by Citi Foundation, a ph...

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(Un)Plugging Smart City Transformations and Strategies in Europe - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. Un)Plugging Smart City Transformations and Strategies in Europe. December 29, 2016. It is noteworthy that although Smart Cities are already being built around us, they differ considerably from the simplistic, one-size-fits-all, smart-city-in-the-box mainstream approach that has been hegemonic so far. Hence, we could ask then, for whom and what purpose are Smart Cities being developed? Governance: Is the bottom-up innovation perspective simply wishful thinking?

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Making Sense of the Smart City Standardization Landscape - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. Making Sense of the Smart City Standardization Landscape. December 22, 2016. Over recent years there has been a major worldwide push towards smart cities with many major world cities rolling out initiatives and new services aimed at improving cities and the lives of citizens. Partly driven by this rollout, international and national standards bodies have begun to identify and propose standards for activities and technologies associated with smart cities. Stand...

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Usher in the Next Stage of E-Government - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. How Artificial Intelligence Will Usher in the Next Stage of E-Government. January 2, 2017. The defining feature of the new perceptive stage is that the work involved in interacting with government will be significantly reduced and automated for all parties involved. However, we will soon see a new stage of e-government: the perceptive. The defining feature of the perceptive stage will be that the work involved in interacting with government will be significant...

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We Need Good Cities, Not Just Smart Cities - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. We Need Good Cities, Not Just Smart Cities. January 9, 2017. Simply building IoT-based applications for a city is sufficient to improve a citizen’s quality of life, is not really building a smart city. Perhaps we should be thinking about these things in terms of building. So, in addition to rolling out smart lighting, smart bins, environmental sensors, and so on, which monitor the city in real time and provide information to residents or government bodies as n...

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Open IT, Security Key to Smart City Future - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. Open IT, Security Key to Smart City Future. December 12, 2016. Smart city initiatives are big and complex projects, and municipalities are anxious to avoid making mistakes — whether that means being tied to a proprietary platform or introducing vulnerabilities into expanding networks as they work to integrate legacy data with new smart systems. Discussions between vendors and government partners — from senior leadership to implementation and operations &...

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4 Common Entry Points to a Smart City - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. 4 Common Entry Points to a Smart City. December 8, 2016. Experts share their tips on the best ways cities can start on the journey toward becoming smarter and better connected. If a city is going to invest in smart technology, then it makes sense to start out doing it in the smartest way possible. While it can be different for each city, there are several common areas municipalities have used to kickstart their journey toward becoming smarter. 8220;We’ll...

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How Blockchain Will Transform Our Cities - LABCITIES

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World's Largest Smart City Business Network. How Blockchain Will Transform Our Cities. December 26, 2016. Many trends on the horizon offer opportunities that could transform our cities. From self-driving vehicles. And the sharing economy. Through to cloud computing. Each of these trends is quite significant on its own. But the convergence of their disruptive forces is what will create real value and drive innovations. What could a peer-owned and peer-run marketplace look like? What is different about blo...