Tag: Smart city

  • Knowledge Smart City will be built on 5,000 hectares in UP at a cost of $42 billion

    Knowledge Smart City will be built on 5,000 hectares in UP at a cost of $42 billion

    Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India]December 18 (ANI): Team Yogi (Government of Uttar Pradesh), which has been successful in garnering foreign investment for the state through its road shows abroad, has signed an MoU with Austin University in San Francisco, USA, to build a Knowledge Smart City at the cost of $42 billion (about Rs 35,000 crore). […]

  • The BIAT 22 edition connected dozens of investors with Italian startups

    The BIAT 22 edition connected dozens of investors with Italian startups

    The three-day event consists of networking and panels, but most of the time is reserved for the most important thing, which is meeting startups and investors one-on-one, in two pre-arranged and organized “speed dating” rotation sessions. every day. The projects presented this year were from the Green Economy, ICT, Bio & Health Tech, Robotics and […]

  • Digital boost for South East Queensland off to a good start

    Digital boost for South East Queensland off to a good start

    While south-east Queensland is being given a large-scale digital boost, the funding may have better served smaller infrastructure projects. Paul Budde reports. EARLIER THIS YEAR the Federal Government announced the South East Queensland (SEQ) City Deal (the agreement). With my interest in smart city development, I saw this plan properly. This region hosts several of […]

  • CM Kejriwal Singapore visits controversy: AAP minister moves Delhi HC to seek guidelines on foreign travel by state ministers

    CM Kejriwal Singapore visits controversy: AAP minister moves Delhi HC to seek guidelines on foreign travel by state ministers

    New Delhi [India]Aug 1 (ANI): Delhi Cabinet Minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday moved the Delhi High Court (HC) challenging the provisions of seeking the Centre’s permission to travel abroad by the elected officials. Gahlot also asked for guidance on broader guidelines for permits required of elected officials to travel abroad. The Delhi High Court asked […]

  • Citizens’ assemblies could lead the way to better democracies

    Citizens’ assemblies could lead the way to better democracies

    Citizens’ assemblies play an integral role in the development of smart cities, enabling people to become more involved in decision-making processes, writes Paul Budde. OVER THE YEARS I have regularly mentioned my involvement in smart cities. I have been involved in this for over a decade. It was obviously my background in the application of […]

  • Tampereen "robot bus" enters public trials

    Tampereen "robot bus" enters public trials

    The development goals of the smart city of Tampere will take a step forward on two occasions on Wednesday "robot buses" Start picking up passengers for free on the pilot program. The test runs – a 3.5 km route on Insinöörinkatu, Teekkarinkatu, Ahvenisjärventie, Opiskelijankatu in Hervanta – will continue on weekdays until mid-March. The aim […]

  • Reykjavík will be a smart, carbon-free city

    Reykjavík will be a smart, carbon-free city

    Reykjavík City Council has authorized Reykjavík to formally apply to be one of 100 carbon neutral smart cities in Europe by 2030. This was stated in a Reykjavík City Communication. It is essential to tackle climate change Following the approval of the Green Plan by the City Council in December 2020, four working groups were […]

  • White-tailed deer, recycled cooking oil and ADHD in dogs: Finland in the world press

    White-tailed deer, recycled cooking oil and ADHD in dogs: Finland in the world press

    The population of white-tailed deer has since grown exponentially in Finland and reached 60,000 in 2019–2020. A fictional version of the deer’s historical journey appeared in a 1979 novel Bobbi: The father of the Finnish white-tailed deer from the user Matt Niemi and Mary Sharp. The Finnish fast food chain Hesburger and the oil refining […]

  • Use smart cities to protect democracy

    Use smart cities to protect democracy

    The connection between smart cities can be used as a tool against neoliberalism, bringing people together and reviving the spirit of democracy, writes Paul Budde. In recent years, I have written various articles about smart cities and I have reported on several of them during my international smart city expedition 2018. For the next three […]

  • Karnataka signs 8 Memorandum of Understanding with various countries including USA, UK

    Karnataka signs 8 Memorandum of Understanding with various countries including USA, UK

    Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]November 20 (ANI): On Friday, the Karnataka government signed eight Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with various countries including the United States and the United Kingdom in various sectors and expected major investments in the future at the 2020 Bengaluru Tech Summit. “We have signed MoU with Finland, Great Britain, Sweden, the United States […]