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Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024
Counting trucks for environmental justice
Using Technology to Empower Rural and urban last mile communities across Nigeria
The Atlas of Urban Tech
Cornell TechA global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.
Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring
New York City6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines
Smart Districts
Dublin, IrelandSmart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.
Academy of the Near Future
Dublin, IrelandIreland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.
BLOXHUB
CopenhagenBLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.
DOLL Living Lab
CopenhagenOur expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.
C² Challenge
DenverThe C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.
Living-in.EU
Estonia (Eesti Vabariik)Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans
Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechMaking cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Smart Cities Certificate
DenverThe certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
Low-Cost Sensors and Systems for Ocean Discovery
Rhode IslandWe are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.
Smart cities and data protection: possible routes
Brazil (Brasil)InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.
Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
Whose Streets report
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
Numina
Brooklyn, NYNumina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.
A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern
SmogOff
CornwallWe'll be looking at ways to visualise air pollution in situ and in real time, so people can see the pollution levels on their streets.
Mapping Makoko
NigeriaA combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement
BeeMonitor
Snowdonia National Park, United KingdomOpen source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Ride Report
Portland, ORFrom bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.
Waag
Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, NetherlandsWaag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.
Boston's Smart Streets page
Boston, MACity page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy
Beta Blocks
Boston, MAExploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.
Pollution Explorers
EuropeWearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.
Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.
World Smart City Awards
Barcelona, SpainThe World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.
Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.
Open source monitoring for understanding energy
Smart City Wien Framework Strategy
Austria (Österreich)A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna
ShotSpotter
Newark, CA, USAShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence
SONYC Sounds of New York City
Brooklyn, NYSONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
Gower Street, London, UKIf you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
MassachusettsIn this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.
Jakarta Smart City
JakartaIssue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta
Placemeter
425 Broadway, New York, NY, USAPlacemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.
Waze Connected Citizens
Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOver a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.
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