March 2010
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The Smarter Cities Scan on A Smartphone
Use this QR Code to open the mobile version of the Smarter Cities Scan on your device.
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A Screenr Overview of the Smarter Planet |Tumblr...
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Watchplainpaul:
From StreetFilms.org:
“Fixing the Great Mistake” is a new Streetfilms series that examines what went wrong in the early part of the 20th Century, when our cities began catering to the automobile, and how those decisions continue to affect our lives today.
In this episode, Transportation Alternatives director Paul Steely White shows how planning for cars drastically altered Park...
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Emergent Urbanism, or "Bottom Up Planning" - City... →
‘Renew Newcastle’
The city of Newcastle, NSW is the largest coal port in the world. Yet as the harbour has essentially become a giant open mouth belching coal to China, and people and other business have drifted to the suburbs (an over-simplification, but …), the historic core of the city has hollowed out, leaving numerous vacant buildings. Heading into the heart of all this, the Renew...
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Watchplainpaul:
From StreetFilms.org, an awesome look at a simple way to increase public health, civic engagement, community pride, the livability of a city, and economic activity:
On Sunday we spent the entire day - from 5 AM ‘til nearly 5 PM - riding bicycles around the city courtesy of the Ciclovia, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come...
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Decorate the building exterior with Solar cells
The Global warming is gearning up day-by-day, the summer days are not just hot, but they indeed very hot, sweaty and one would like to just to miss it.
With the huge population and limited power generation resource, its bound that there will be regular power disruption is most of the cities in India.
In order to make life better in the current situation, was thinking of covering the building...
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Ideas for a smarter planet
Hello There, Well IBM has always been credited with the history of starting some thing big and new which later on is readily accepted by the society as a part and parcel of the society. Therefore i have couple of ideas to start with:
1. I think IBM should start with the idea of promoting all its employess to come to office using their bicycles for 1 day (may be once every month) so that it...
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“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except...”
– Jane Jacobs, american sociologist (1916-2006) (via publicdesignfestival)
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IBM - The Smarter City http://bit.ly/diAO5I
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Evernote shared notebook: The City As a Platform,... →
I love Evernote, and use it on my laptop and blackberry. But I never realized the utility of sharing a note publically, such as this example from the SXSW panel that my IBM colleagues and others participated in. What an amazing way to share knowledge.
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SXSW Tackles “City as Platform”
There’s a growing (renewed?) interest in the Internet of Things around the benefits for a more instrumented and connected city. IBM organized a session at SXSW in Austin that took place this morning titled, “City as Platform.” The objectives of the session was to discuss the role of information architects, the interface of systems with the built world, the steps needed to transform the thinking...
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SXSW Interactive 2010: John Tolva Talks Smarter...
Listen to this podcast (16:25, MP3) we recorded recently at SXSW Interactive in Austin to hear John explain smarter cities in more and fascinating detail, and also to discuss his experience in the IBM Corporate Service Corps, IBM’s equivalent of the Peace Corps.
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Walkable neighborhoods a buffer to foreclosures →
plainpaul:
A forward thinking article from Worldchanging.com:
Looking at data from more than 40,000 mortgages throughout Chicago, San Francisco and Jacksonville, Fla., the researchers behind the Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default report found that the rate of mortgage foreclosure actually decreased in neighborhoods that were more compact, walkable and connected to public transportation...
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RT @smarterplanet: If you care about smarter... →
sjsg:
RT @smarterplanet: If you care about smarter cities, follow the #cityisaplatform hashtag. #sxsw panel with @immerito @benberkowitz @dustinhaisler @jmasengarb
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Great opportunity to Help the world in Climate...
I was reading an article last Monday about building a Smarter Planet which was address by Samuel J. Palmisano on January 12, 2010.
As an human being we all are responsible fro Climate Change. After reading the article I got to know how our (IBM) technology can help our planet to utilize the existing resources in a better way (in GDF we have learnt how to eliminate Waste in a business process...
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Streets
We often notice that street lights are not turned OFF or ON at proper times. Either it will be too dark and no light or the lights will be still ON during the day wasting so much of electricity. If there was a sensor which would detect the brightness outside and make sure the lights are turned ON or OFF as per the requirements it would save lot of electricity and make effective utilization of...
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WatchAt TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. (via Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TED.com)
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“Royal Haskoning and Green Ventures today announced a new collaboration which...”
– Peterborough Launches Smarter City Project to Transform City Systems and Drive Economic Growth - United States
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“People are the actuators (in a city)”
– Assaf Biderman, MIT SENSEable City Lab /via @smarterplanet (via spime)
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Smart Underground Cabling
One of the initial step to make smarter city is managing their electrical, optical and other wired cabling.
When we say, we will built zero external wire cable city then it is very important to think, where we will give home to these cables?
I have seen now a days our traditional sewage lines has became new home for these cables but does really we are achieving the our objective of smarter...
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Smart City: Wikipedia Definition
Smart Cities can be identified (and ranked) along six main axes or dimensions [2]. These axes are: a smart economy; smart mobility; a smart environment; smart people; smart living; and, finally, smart governance. These six axes connect with traditional regional and neoclassical theories of urban growth and development. In particular, the axes are based - respectively - on theories of...
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FASHION DELIVERS is coordinating efforts to send new products to our neighbors in Haiti who have been devastated by what very well may be the worst natural disaster to have ever hit the western hemisphere. It has been reported that hundreds of thousands of people may have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands more have been left homeless and without life’s most basic...
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“The data exists to give commuters and transportation agencies a better way to...”
– Above quote by Gerry Mooney, General Manager, Public Sector, IBM (via IBM Scientists Use Analytics to Break Traffic Gridlock With Personalized Trip Information) (via horizonwatching)
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Biological paths to energy self-reliance
Two years ago, aroused by love for Mother Earth and by the news that begin to rage on tv channels and newspapers about the global warming, I decided to gather information about alternative energies.I went to my district’s public library and, between several books about solar and wind power energy, I run into the treatise of Russel E. Anderson, Biological paths to energy self-reliance :...
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