Strategic Partnerships to Speed up Smart City Projects
Businesses and governments have realized the tremendous potential of smart cities as organizations proceed to explore the various applications of IoT and interconnected responsive networks. Until recently, city authorities considered smart technologies mainly as tools for…
Safer and Cleaner Cities with Innovative & Sustainable Mobility Solutions
With CO2 emissions and road fatalities on the rise, the need for sustainable mobility solutions is now more than ever. Currently, the CO2 emissions in the transport sector are about 30% in the case of developed…
Understanding The Opportunities for AI-Cameras and LiDARs for Smart Road Infrastructure
As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January sparked a new wave of autonomous vehicles (AVs) coming to the automotive market in the next few years, much focus as of late has been on the technology…
Top GovTech Accelerator Expands to Serve the World
QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge Opens Applications April 1-30th Boston, MA, April 4, 2022 – Leading Cities is pleased to announce the launch of the 2022 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge in partnership with QBE North America for…
Q&A: Expo2020 – an entire city managed via one single app
This week, we had a chance, thanks to Siemens, to visit for the second time the Expo2020 site, one of the most connected expos so far, where technology goes hand in hand with sustainability, innovation, and…
An executive guide to the net-zero sustainability journey
For all the pain that 2020 brought on societies and economies around the world, it also brought some positives. Chief among them was the increased awareness for all of us to prioritize climate change and net-zero…
Sustainability Won’t Get Very Far Without Transportation
Transportation now accounts for nearly one-fourth of all global emissions, posing a considerable challenge as governments and businesses look to promote greater sustainability in the battle to combat climate change. Breaking this down further, 45% of…
Prize for Communities to Remove Drugs and Pollutants from Water
AcceliGOV Competition to offer Pilot of Pharem Biotech’s Award-Winning Solution With only 1% of the world’s water available for human consumption, the threat of pollutants entering our water supplies is dangerous to human health and the…
What is Smart Agriculture? How can we put it Into Practice in Areas without Mobile Coverage?
Also known as Agriculture 4.0, smart agriculture is the application of information and data technologies to optimize complex agricultural systems involving individual machines and all agricultural operations. Smart agriculture incorporates information and communication technologies into machinery,…
A cleaner energy future will depend on reliability and predictability
When power company executives were asked to list the most important issues facing their organizations, 45% overwhelmingly cited their top concern related to the future of energy as “renewables, sustainability or the environment.” At the same…