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The smart city concept is gaining traction at a faster pace than expected. Almost every country around the globe is preparing to build the digital cities of tomorrow. Enwrapping the entire city with the internet of things, surveillance systems and data-capturing sensors and bringing in automation are the major infrastructure components of the smart cities. […]
Year after year, the global consultancy firms and smart city solution providers come up with fresh new answers – in the form of surveys – giving a new diversion to smart city development. And that’s commendable! Because these surveys don’t just reveal the genuine opinions and thoughts from smart city leaders but also provide a […]
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is a nonprofit research organisation having a vast global network of 170 cities and counties with think tank being the centre. It works towards helping communities tackle the economic, social and cultural challenges inclusively with the right approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Every year ICF comes up with […]
In 1950, cities were home to 29% of the world’s population. In 2014, the figure almost doubled with 54% of the population living in cities. And, by 2050, this figure is estimated to reach 66%. The constant influx of people in cities is happening in both developed as well as the developing regions. One interesting […]
The smart city plans of UAE government revolve around using technology as a tool to heighten the happiness levels in the region. More distinctively, if we talk about the Dubai government, it is scaling up the implementation of the smart city plans in that same dimension. One of the citizen-centric initiative involving the role of […]
