May 2010
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And the winners are...
Smarter Cities Media Challenge for Global Delivery Centers
During the past month you have seen plenty of ideas crossing our tumblr platform, coming from IBMers making different cities from various corners of this world smarter! They made videos, posted their thoughts as texts, shared pictures with us and taught us more about emerging cities and their challenges.
What does your city need to...
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“The IBM Smarter Cities Media Challenge for Global Delivery has now closed....”
– Silvia Mihailescu, IBM
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A Smarter, Greener Science Center →
The Connecticut Science Center, located in Hartford, Connecticut is making Connecticut and the surrounding states smarter by inspiring lifelong learning through interactive and innovative experiences that explore our changing world through science. They strive to create an engaging and sustainable science center that serves families and schools and has a significant impact on student and adult...
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Windmill-Car
How many times has your car stopped while you were on your way because you ran out of petrol? How many times you spent more than half an hour on your way because someone else’s car stopped for the same reason? How full of cars smoke is the air you breathe?
All those questions pushed me to think about a solution, that will lead my city to be smarter.
I started to think about something, which is...
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“The only key that UNLOCKS the door to smarter Egyptian living is the ability to...”
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Illiteracy in Egypt
The progress of any society depends on educated, trained manpower, capable of adapting his natural resources and using it the right use which helps to achieve economic and social growth.
In Egypt the problem of illiteracy should deserve more attention in order to address the males and females in different organizations(governmental and civil) and give them the highest priority in national plans...
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““No city can ever move to smarter one without Believing that change is...”
– Mona Hassan, Egypt, #gdchallenge
Bike Power to Charge the Grid
Many cities are already adopting bike share programs, so my idea is to attach rechargeable batteries to these bicycles. When they are rented as people pedal the battery charges. Once the bike is returned to the storage gate it plugs into the electric grid and donates that energy to power the city. The idea is based on the EDISON project, where cars are plugging into the grid.
Social Transportation to increase efficiency of...
Social road transport implies two things: people share vehicles and vehicles share roads.
StarLab is a not-for-profit research, development, and production organization dedicated to the propagation of social transport practices. We hope to implement a new form of transit - social transportation, a transportation protocol wherein resources are shared or coordinated to increase the utility,...
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Smarter Traffic Sign Boards
We all in th Indian Silicon Valley (Bangalore) are fed up of Traffic Problems daily,and we’ll struck into traffic even if we get radio updates.
So i have a smarter idea to avoid getting strucked in huge bad traffic, we can actually modify the way the Traffic sign boards are designed.
The conventional way of Traffic sign boards what we are using now is it only indicates the way towards...
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A Role Model
when I started thinking about an idea that makes my city smarter, realized one important thing, without it NO city in the world can be or even start the first step on the way of getting smarter.
I found that in order to create a smarter city, country and planet you have to create a smarter people at the beginning, because this is the main element by which you will make your city smarter. But, the...
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Something in the AIR in Madison Square: Smarter...
If you stroll outside IBM’s offices at 11 Madison Ave in New York City with an iPhone or Android-powered smartphone, you’ll discover something strange and new in Madison Square Park, and it’s not the Gormley sculpture exhibit imported from London.
Using Tagwhat — the augmented reality (AR) content creation service just launched — we’ve scattered bits of content about Smarter Cities, analytics...
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Smarter Elevators
I am not sure if any elevator manufacturer has done so, but it seems to me that adding some sensors and algorithms could significantly improve the efficiency of the machines in tall buildings. It could be a very practical application of utilitarianism, aiming to reduce the average per-person journey time as much as possible.
For instance, if there are two elevators moving past a floor where...
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START THEM YOUNG
START THEM YOUNG
(How adults can enable children to help build a Smarter Planet)
1. Teach children about the causes and consequences of environmental destruction and how to avoid them;
2. Walk your talk – let the children see/observe your own efforts or contribution to environmental preservation;
3. Help children live out what they learn by guiding and encouraging them to...
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Smarter Ambulances
We all know about the purpose of ambulance, but very often we’ll hear that a person was dead while he was on the way to hospital. This(Death) may cause due to traffic jams or any other technical faults in the ambulance itself, so we can put our brains to make this ambulance smarter which would at-least reduce such cases as i said above.
what we can do is we can make the ambulance and the...
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Intelligent Traffic Systems and Solution
As someone once said, “Anybody driving faster than you is a maniac and anyone going slower is an idiot.” This little statement really applies to Bangalore. This model provides an intelligent mechanism to solve traffic management problem in “Namma Bengaluru”. IBM can involve with the state government of Karnataka to provide a technology which is similar to the one provided to the...
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Why Cities Are Broke (They Spend Too Much!),... →
Reason’s brilliant Nick Gillespie noting Cincinnati’s failure to follow its own early-retirement policy.
Gillespie has previously written “this split between private and public-sector workers is one of the biggest issues in contemporary America. We are, as Matt Welch has noted again and again, broke. There’s no money left anymore people. We need a fundamental re-do of...
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Smarter Airports and Medics
Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But “T-rays”, a completely safe form of electromagnetic radiation, may reshape not only airport screening procedures but also medical imaging practices.
Using several new advances in T-rays, or terahertz radiation,...
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Smarter Railways India
We can observe if we analyze the semi-automated Indian Railways system, that it is still lacking the independence from manual work by human being.
The Indian Railway is the largest government organization having more than half million employees working into it with on an average only 6 pure working hours. Now these details indicate waste of resources by not utilizing all of them in a best way...
