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The New American City Event-Dec 2012
My friends at CIty Age are at it again. This time they are working with Kansas City’s Mayor Sly James to host another thought-provoking, engaging dialog with leaders in the smart cities movement....
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Our first global #smartchat via Twitter-Original Post
On Wednesday, September 5th, I hosted our first Twitterchat (#smartchat) to begin the process of creating a dialog amongst the Twitter community of smart cities professionals. Because it was our first...
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City Camp Buenos Aires-Crowdsourcing Solutions-Original Post
Yesterday I participated in the first ever Citycamp Buenos Aires. For those of you unfamiliar with Citycamps, they are unconferences focused on city innovation and have been held around the globe. The...
View ArticleThe Importance of Embracing Immigrants for Job Creation
In a down economy it is common to find backlashes against immigrants around the world as jobs become more scarce and some citizen groups begin to blame immigrants for high unemployment numbers. Yet the...
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New Urban Lab in Santander, Spain
Urban laboratories for smart cities are beginning to emerge around the globe. Not surprisingly another one recently announced is in Spain, this time in Santander. I say not surprisingly because...
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The Role of Citizen Engagement for Smart Cities
Today two posts from two leading advocates for smart and sustainable cities, Rick Robinson of IBM and Don Taspcott, were published. In Robinson’s post, he presents a view of the architecture of smart...
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13 Twitter Accounts all Smart City Professionals Should Follow
Having been in the smart cities arena for the past five years (before it was called smart cities) and being an active Twitter user, I have discovered several important people and organizations who are...
View ArticleSmart Cities Need Smart People
I have just returned to Buenos Aires from a week in Barcelona at the Smart Cities World Congress. I had the opportunity to speak about economic policies conducive to smart city transformation. But...
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