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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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The research tackles three key areas: economic strength for startups and established businesses, standard of living including disposable income and healthcare benefits, and the inclusion of youth, women and expats in the workforce. The final index ranks the top 100 cities by the total job opportunity score, from highest to lowest, revealing the score for each factor. The data can also be sorted by each individual category.
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WHY IT MATTERS: digital often means skills shortage. When looking for work or a place to establish a startup, this list may help. 
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Toronto Transit Explorer uses public data feeds from 13 transit agencies throughout the Greater Toronto Area to determine travel times, service schedules, and wheelchair accessibility. It pulls data from Toronto’s Open Data Catalogue to generate bike-share trips, provides the option to combine bike-share and transit trips, and calculates personal bike rides depending on your choice of speed (from 10 to 30 kilometers per hour).
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WHY IT MATTERS: big data and open data provide insights to discover hidden trends and solutions, here in the context of city transportation.
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"Trends in Smart City Development" is a new report from the National League of Cities featuring case studies about how five cities – Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Charlotte, N.C., and New Delhi, India – are using different approaches to implement smart city projects.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Cities will contribute an enormous amount of data to help improve travel, work and life in general.
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The urban sidewalk kiosks from Sidewalk Labs will sport a battery of sensors to monitor cities, traffic and suspicious packages.
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Alphabet new company called sidewalk has proposed a wifi kiosk that can be installed anywhere to provide a variety of services including: wifi, advertising, noise sensor, harmful package detection, amongst other. This is part of a smart city push.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Google focus now is more and more about bridging the real world with digital technologies. This new device and new company shows how important the field of smart cities is - very seldom does Google invest its energy into areas that do not have the potential to become billion dollar revenue generating endeavours in the short term.
The most interesting aspect of this new product is that it blends together many different solutions into a single product. The kiosks serves as a wifi access point - which has often been considered alone - and blends with sounds, video and other sensors then merges advertisement to pay for itself. Brilliant! We need more devices like that, especially in stores where we often see single purpose devices being deployed as price check points or ipad based information kiosks. They could be so much more....
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Inspired by global best practices, stimulated by an ongoing dialog with Montréalers, the Smart and Digital City Office is working in nine key areas to make Montréal a world renowned leader among smart and digital cities by 2017.
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I am proud to have helped shape the strategy with the Digital City Office. Great team, great vision.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
February 24, 2015 3:14 PM
Smart! I haven't read the 50 pages of the strategy yet, but the first good news is that there is a digital strategy!
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Open data standards, low-cost sensors, and internet of things connectivity are helping cities create new technology platforms to manage social interactions, the environment, health, transportation, water management, and utilities. Via massimo facchinetti
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In the context of recent announcements regarding Montreal Smart and Digital city recently unveiling a 23M$ investment budget. Presentation - #Montreal Smart and Digital City : 2014-2017 Montreal Strategy https://lnkd.in/deCJnUR #innmtl #smartcity
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Next up in this ongoing look at disruptive scenarios is the Smart City. For the first time in history, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and that percentage moves to 70% by 2...
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Frank Diana presents some very interesting examples of what a smart city can be and why it represents a major disruption in the future.
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October 27, 2014 6:18 AM
#SocialMediaMonitoring & #SocialMediaAnalytics
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The City Anatomy provides a common language with which to describe the different key features of city life. It takes into consideration three systems: Structure (environment, infrastructures, built domain), Information (platform, economy, governance), Society (culture, functions, people). This tiered conceptual approach aims at setting the stage for effective city governance, evaluation and transformation while providing cities with a common structure to describe their unique set of challenges and opportunities to each other, in a way that helps them discover what commonalities they might share.
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City protocol society proposes a one page view of the interconnexion between structures in a city and multiple cities, offering an opportunity to make all of its information accessible to all its inhabitants.
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Truly inspiring to see that Barcelona has established an "operating system" for the city (city OS) that connects all of the sensors (street lights, parking meters, cameras, etc.) to make their data accessible for different applications and analytics opportunities.
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La ville intelligente se façonne doucement mais sûrement. L’open data est une de ses armes, la start-up nord-américaine TransitScreen l’a bien compris : elle ouvre à la rue son service digital d’informations en temps réel sur les transports publics.
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The idea of providing insights into a cities data store is essential. This is just one way to make it available to people without smartphones.
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La grande région métropolitaine de Montréal a été reconnue par l’Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) parmi les 21 métropoles intelligentes de
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GReat news for Montreal to be recognized in the digital world.
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WHY IT MATTERS: a great review of autonomous car state of the art as well as some thoughts on what cities may look like when self-driving cars are among us. Spoiler: it will bee great but it will take time... ;-)