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- Software Helps Cities See the Future
- By Sarah Rich. Government Technology, August 9, 2011. "Sometimes the public expects government to see the future. Good decisions are to be expected while bad decisions — judged with the benefit of hindsight — are derided. Some help is on the way. IBM is betting that software can give cities a better look into their future. The company unveiled new software this week designed to help decision-makers forecast the consequences of actions that affect citizens. In turn, IBM said the software, called System Dynamics for Smarter Cities, can also help policymakers make decisions that generate positive results..."
Added: 11 August 2011;
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- Singapore Management University and Tata Consultancy Services announce creation of iCity Lab
- TATA, August 8, 2011. "Collaboration agreement and TCS's S$6-million investment lays foundation for research and development of cloud-based IT solutions for intelligent cities in Asia and worldwide Mumbai / Singapore: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, business solutions and consulting firm, and the Singapore Management University (SMU) announced the establishment of the TCS-SMU iCity Lab to be located at SMU. The collaboration agreement signed states that the two organisations are partnering to create a new research facility to develop industry standards and IT frameworks for the emerging intelligent city (iCity) model of urban development. TCS will initially directly invest S$6 million in the new TCS-SMU iCity Lab over the next three years..."
Added: 9 August 2011;
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- Singapore Uni Launches 'ICity' Project
- By Anshupriya Jha. FutureGov, 8 August 2011. "Singapore Management University is establishing a research lab for developing cloud-based IT solutions for cities across the globe, and especially in Asia..."
Added: 9 August 2011;
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- Cities Deploying Free Wi-Fi infrastructure Need To Set Their Bar Higher
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, July 7, 2011. "When I was in Taipei last week I saw a few camera crews in public places, including the city hall. When I asked what it was, I was told that it was the launch date for free municipal wi-fi in public spaces (indoor). In a few months' time – October, I believe – this will be extended outdoor and the coverage of the city will approach 100%. This made me think about what happens today to city governments that promote and successfully deploy such an infrastructure. A few years ago, this very accomplishment would have been enough, by providing access to people at a moment in time in which there were not too many hotspots, and inexpensive 3G data plans from mobile operators were not in sight yet. Today, cities that want to be in a leadership position must think earlier rather than later how this infrastructure can transform the way the city government transforms its services and operations..."
Added: 12 July 2011;
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- Five Pillars to a Digital City (Opinion)
- By Steve Ressler. Government Technology, July 7, 2011. "Digital, smarter, intelligent cities? The buzzwords are flying in local government today, from IBM commercials to the annual Digital Cities and Counties rankings. Ask around — every city wants to be all these things, but what exactly do they mean? And how are they feasible in today's world of budget cuts and doing more with less? Here are five pillars I consider essential for being a digital city..."
Added: 12 July 2011;
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- The Battle for Control of Smart Cities
- By Greg Lindsay. The Fast Company, December 16, 2010. "Will tech-powered cities revolutionize the way we live or hand corporations the keys to our privacy? A new study by the Rockefeller Foundation offers conclusions. Who will own the brains of smart cities--citizens or corporations? At stake is an impending massive trove of data, not to mention issues of privacy, services, and inclusion. The battle may be fought in the streets between bands of Jane Jacobs-inspired hacktivists pushing for self-serve governance and a latter-day Robert Moses carving out monopolies for IBM or Cisco instead of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Without a delicate balance between the scale of big companies and the DIY spirit of 'gov 2.0' champions, the urban poor could be the biggest losers..."
Added: 17 December 2010;
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- The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion
- by Anthony Townsend. Institute for the Future, December 16, 2010. "Over the next decade, cities will continue to grow larger and more rapidly. At the same time, new technologies will unlock massive streams of data about cities and their residents. As these forces collide, they will turn every city into a unique civic laboratory—a place where technology is adapted in novel ways to meet local needs. This ten-year forecast map, The Future of Cities, Information, and Inclusion, charts the important intersections between urbanization and digitalization that will shape this global urban experiment, and the key tensions that will arise..."
Added: 17 December 2010;
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- Seoul and Prague Achieve Top Rankings in E-Government Web Portal Excellence
- Rutgers Global E-Governance Survey Ranks Seoul #1. Rutgers Media Relations, the State University of New Jersey, July 13, 2010. "A global survey of city websites has identified Seoul, South Korea, as the top-ranked city in the performance of municipal e-government. The research study was conducted jointly by the E-Governance Institute, School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. The survey evaluated websites of municipalities worldwide in terms of privacy, usability, content, service, and citizen participation and ranked the cities on a global scale. Co-sponsored by the UN Division for Public Administration and Development Management and the American Society for Public Administration, the study listed the following cities among the top five in e-government: Seoul, Prague, Hong Kong, New York and Singapore..."
Added: 22 July 2010;
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- Siemens Releases Study on how Information and Communications Technology can be used to Enable, Engage and Empower City Stakeholders
- Siemens, Munich, Germany, 28 June 2010. "In the findings of a recent study sponsored by Siemens and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) for city management, it was found that ICT has become the life blood of all cities. ICT enables cities to be competitive and provides new ways for cities to overcome some of their most pressing challenges such as traffic congestion, environmental protection, and the need to optimize infrastructure. It also engages and empowers citizens across the world to get involved in devising solutions to the challenges of urban living. Approximately 2,800 public officials, business executives and citizens in 15 cities in 12 countries were interviewed..."
Added: 1 July 2010;
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- Philadelphia CIO Allan Frank Has Plans for a Digital City
- By Tod Newcombe. Government Technology, September 2, 2009. "... One goal is to gather the vast amounts of data collected by the city and use it to measure outcomes, and eventually drive a new kind of behavior in the workplace. For instance, Frank sees the city's 311 hotline as a transformational tool that will allow the city to move from functioning as a "service request operation" that responds to incoming complaints and queries, toward a more proactive work-order management operation that anticipates customer service needs in a timelier fashion..."
Added: 3 September 2009;
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- City portals: How e-government evolves into e-participation
- by Peter Cruickshank. Spartakan, 10 June 2009. "As part of the Smart Cities Project I have been working with Mark Deakin on a report to provide a context the development of e-government portals by cities. Basically it provides a simple four-phase model to describe their customisation of service provision. Of course, there are many other models of the evolution of e-government! The model is kept simple here because our aim is to point out the need for city administrations to be clear about the extent, scale and scope of e-government developments and challenges posed by the transition from phase three (transaction support) to four (citizen participation), in terms the democratic and organisational impact of the shift towards user-centric service provision..."
Added: 18 June 2009;
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- 2007 Digital Cities Survey
- Center for Digital Government. "American cities that excel in the digital arena are being recognized by the Center for Digital Government as found from the 2007 Digital Cities Survey. The seventh annual study examines how cities are using technology to create a seamless environment between local government and constituents. "This year’s winners have really raised the bar for cities," said Cathilea Robinett, executive director for the Center for Digital Government. "Digital technology connects citizens with their government on a level never before achieved."..."
Added: 15 November 2007;
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- Top U.S. Digital Cities Announced
- Government Technology, November 13, 2007. "The Center for Digital Government today released results of the seventh annual 2007 Digital Cities Survey which examines how cities use technology to create a seamless environment between local government and constituents. Top-ranked cities in their respective population categories are: Aurora, Colo., Lincoln, Neb., Santa Monica, Calif., Jupiter, Fla. and Lynchburg, Va..."
Added: 15 November 2007;
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- Trikala, Greece
- By Indrajit Basu. Government Technology - Digital Communities, July 2, 2007. "Lately e-Trikala is creating a stir in the digital community world, not just because it's the first digital city in Greece, but because within just a few months of its first phase completion in December 2006, the initiative is bridging the digital divide in Greece -- where on average, only six out of 100 citizens have access to or use the Internet..."
Added: 12 July 2007;
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- Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide (2005) - in pdf format (1933kb)
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A Longitudinal Assessment of Municipal Websites Throughout the World, by Marc Holzer and Seang-Tae Kim. The E-governance Institute, National Center for Public Productivity, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Campus at Newark and Global e-Policy e-Government Institute, Gradue School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University, 2006. "This research replicates a survey completed in 2003. The present survey evaluates the practice of digital governance in large municipalities worldwide in 2005. Both studies focused on the evaluation of current practices in government, and the emphasis of the research was on the evaluation of each website in terms of digital governance. Simply stated, digital governance includes both digital government (delivery of public service) and digital democracy (citizen participation in governance). Specifically, we analyzed security, usability, and content of websites, the type of online services currently being offered, and citizen response and participation through websites established by city governments..."
Added: 6 September 2006;
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