SMART 2020
Enabling the low carbon society through information and communication technologies
Whether ICT is used to drive behaviour change or efficiency, it will be a crucial enabling force behind the transition to a viable society that breaks our reliance on fossil fuels. Molly Webb and industry guests are the authors of the blog. Molly co-authored the SMART 2020 report and directs The Climate Group's work on ICT and climate change.
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Pioneering ‘living lab’ in Italy will make Trento a smarter city
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- 27 March 2013
A pioneering residential ‘living lab’ is being built in the Italian city of Trento, laying the groundwork for a smart city model that could be scaled up across the country.
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SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION IN CITIES PART 4: Economic development
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- 31 January 2013
This blog is part of a short series of posts that sets out to profile some of the LLGA | Cities Pilot the Future (previously the Living Labs Global Award) success stories, as well as current open challenges for their 2013 edition.
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SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION IN CITIES PART 3: THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
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- 28 January 2013
LLGA has an history of tackling transport and movement challenges. Good examples include Santiago de Chile, Lavasa (India) and Barcelona, three cities that both found -- and are piloting -- solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of city transport through LLGA. I explore these cities further below.
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Sustainable innovation in cities PART 2: The challenge of information products
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- 21 January 2013
This blog post is the second in a short series profiling LLGA | Cities Pilot the Future (previously the Living Labs Global Award) success stories, as well as current open challenges for LLGA 2013. Today the focus is on information products.
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Sustainable innovation in cities blog part 1: The challenge of energy and resource efficiency
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- 18 January 2013
This blog post is part of a short series profiling LLGA | Cities Pilot the Future (previously the Living Labs Global Award) success stories, as well as current open challenges for LLGA 2013.
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Cities can talk: Agile Cities for Sustainability
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- 18 June 2012
Today, in Rio +20, during the event to mark the launch of the Clean Revolution campaign, we announced we will take forward our work in cities with social enterprises Living Labs Global and CityMart, city association Metropolis, and the UK's Technology Strategy Board. Through the ‘Agile Cities’ Program we will co-design guidance for ‘pre-procurement’ when cities are looking for innovation and seeking global market intelligence.
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Green Button: Faster progress than we thought? Opening up energy information for all
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- 22 March 2012
The White House's new Green Button initiative allows consumers to better manage their energy consumption, but also (and crucially) helps application developers and service providers find new ways of making energy efficiency and renewable power within reach of everyone.
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Mining the Surplus City
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- 07 December 2011
With over 50% of us living in urban areas, how do we make them more sustainable? One set of tools in our arsenal is the increasingly ubiquitous information and communications technologies that drive our global economies to be ever more integrated and productive.
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Campuses as Smarter City Test Beds
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- 23 November 2011
Jerry Sheehan, Chief of Staff, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, guest blogs for us on campuses as 'smarter city' test beds.
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Intelligent cities are also green cities
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- 09 November 2011
Review of Intelligent Cities Expo, Hamburg, where the theme is governance. What are the initiatives underway in Europe and around the world to support cities in meeting their challenges through ‘intelligent’ solutions?
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