This document provides an overview of the Connected Urban Development program, which aims to help cities reduce carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency through innovation and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The program involves pilot projects in three cities - San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Seoul. It is based on the principles that ICT can both directly and indirectly contribute to energy usage and reduction. Deploying broadband applications across areas like transportation, buildings, energy and work can improve efficiencies. An integrated ICT infrastructure coupled with innovative services and policies can enable transformative changes to urban planning and development.
Connected and Sustainable ICT Infrastructure WhitepaperShane Mitchell
In the policies and plans for sustainability and eco-responsibility in cities, much attention has been directed to three sectors: the built environment, energy, and mobility.
At the beginning of the 21st century, it became obvious that a fourth, equally important element must be addressed: ICT.
To manage ICT effectively, cities need a common framework for data and performance, and a set of solutions for urban sustainability.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
21st century cities: smart cities in India, or how to develop future citiesAzamat Abdoullaev
The success or failure in meeting the world’s most pressing challenges will be decided in cities, which are reaching a tipping point on many issues:
poor governance and weak institutions (#1 perceived impediment to prosperity);
inadequate infrastructure (US$78tn of investments needed over the next 10 years);
rising inequality (1bn living in poverty in cities, 75% of cities worse off than 20 years ago; housing (881mn living in slums, 1bn new homes needed in cities);
crime (top concern for citizens); environmental challenges (cities occupy 2-3% of land mass but account for 75% of natural resource use and emissions, 70% are already dealing with the effects of climate change);
and new and pervasive risks (terrorism, higher securitisation, disease and pandemics) (source: UN-Habitat, UN, World Bank); 21st Century Cities: Global Smart Cities Primer, Bank of America, ML, 2017].
Presentation on what a Smart City is by Dixon Chew, Group Chief Executive Officer of Pensonic Holdings Berhad, at the Selangor Smart City & Future Commerce Convention 2017 panel session titled ' Smart IoT: IoT and its role in Smart Cities'
Future of government - Insights from discussions building on an initial persp...Future Agenda
The initial perspective on the Future of Government (by Cheryl Chung, Lead Strategist, Futures Division at Ministry of Transport, Government of Singapore) kicked off the Future Agenda 2.0 global discussions taking place through 2015. This summary builds on the initial view and is updated as we progress the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Connected and Sustainable ICT Infrastructure WhitepaperShane Mitchell
In the policies and plans for sustainability and eco-responsibility in cities, much attention has been directed to three sectors: the built environment, energy, and mobility.
At the beginning of the 21st century, it became obvious that a fourth, equally important element must be addressed: ICT.
To manage ICT effectively, cities need a common framework for data and performance, and a set of solutions for urban sustainability.
http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/networked_society/city-life
The Networked Society City Index report continues to explore the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.
As with the previous studies, this index continues to show a strong correlation between ICT maturity of the city and their social, economic and environmental progress. In this report, New York City tops the overall ranking followed by Stockholm, London and Singapore.
The Networked Society City Index aims to develop a comprehensive evaluation of cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development. Through a series of reports we have analyzed 25 urban areas around the world from a city, citizen, and now, business perspective.
Patrik Regårdh from Ericsson’s Networked Society Lab says: "We see the individual – rather than city institutions or businesses – as the drivers of development resulting from ICT maturity. Governments follow by adapting to citizens’ changing behavior, while businesses primarily adopt ICT innovations to increase internal efficiency. More importantly, government decisions help steer the business sector’s ICT development. Therefore, changes in policy, regulation and planning, paired with research and support for taking risks and funding, are some of the key factors for driving progress. These factors are crucial in helping organizations of all sizes to connect, collaborate and compete more effectively."
21st century cities: smart cities in India, or how to develop future citiesAzamat Abdoullaev
The success or failure in meeting the world’s most pressing challenges will be decided in cities, which are reaching a tipping point on many issues:
poor governance and weak institutions (#1 perceived impediment to prosperity);
inadequate infrastructure (US$78tn of investments needed over the next 10 years);
rising inequality (1bn living in poverty in cities, 75% of cities worse off than 20 years ago; housing (881mn living in slums, 1bn new homes needed in cities);
crime (top concern for citizens); environmental challenges (cities occupy 2-3% of land mass but account for 75% of natural resource use and emissions, 70% are already dealing with the effects of climate change);
and new and pervasive risks (terrorism, higher securitisation, disease and pandemics) (source: UN-Habitat, UN, World Bank); 21st Century Cities: Global Smart Cities Primer, Bank of America, ML, 2017].
Presentation on what a Smart City is by Dixon Chew, Group Chief Executive Officer of Pensonic Holdings Berhad, at the Selangor Smart City & Future Commerce Convention 2017 panel session titled ' Smart IoT: IoT and its role in Smart Cities'
Future of government - Insights from discussions building on an initial persp...Future Agenda
The initial perspective on the Future of Government (by Cheryl Chung, Lead Strategist, Futures Division at Ministry of Transport, Government of Singapore) kicked off the Future Agenda 2.0 global discussions taking place through 2015. This summary builds on the initial view and is updated as we progress the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Graham, Stephen. "Bridging urban digital divides? Urban polarisation and info...Stephen Graham
The societal diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) remains starkly uneven at all scales. It is in the contemporary city that this unevenness becomes most visible. In cities, clusters and enclaves of ‘superconnected’ people, rms and institutions often rest cheek-by-jowel with large numbers of people with non-existent or rudimentary access to communications technologies. In such a context, this paper has two objectives, reected in its two parts. The rst part of the paper seeks to demonstrate that dominant trends in ICT develop- ment are currently helping to support new extremes of social and geographical unevenness within and between human settlements and cities, in both the North and the South. The paper’s second part aims to explore the prospect that such stark ‘urban digital divides’ might be ameliorated through progressive and innovative policy initiatives which treat cities and electronic technologies in parallel. It does this using a range of illustrative exemplars from a variety of contexts
Future of cities Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective...Future Agenda
Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective by an initial perspective on the future of cities by Harry Rich Chief Executive RIBA. This includes insights from events already completed adding to the starting point for the global future agenda discussions taking place through 2015 as part of the the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Water Wars in Mumbai
Stephen Graham, Renu Desai, and Colin McFarlane
Beyond the Pale
The Mumbai Mirror, January 8, 2010. A photograph shows a line of proud Mumbai police officers standing behind row upon row of what appear at first sight to be rusted machine guns (see fig. 1). But this is not one of the arms caches regularly unearthed to demonstrate the force’s effectiveness against the myriad terrorist networks that regularly target urban sites in contemporary India. Rather, the objects are water booster pumps, confiscated in a new campaign of dawn raids targeting “water theft” by slum dwellers in the Shivaji Nagar and
Govandi districts (see fig. 2 map below).
“Stealing Water to Earn a Few Bucks?” the headline reads. “Pay a Hefty
Price!” (Sathe 2010). The article details how the raids are being backed up by new legal moves to criminalize certain uses of water. Hundreds of people, arrested for installing and using the pumps, are to be prosecuted under draconian and nonbailable laws such as the Prevention of Damages to Public Property Act. All this activity is portrayed unproblematically as a heroic response to the threat that water theft in slums poses to the wider, formal, legitimate, and law-abiding city. “Pilferages, if not controlled,” writes the author, “could exhaust the potable water reserves before the next monsoon” (Sathe 2010).
Such statements tap into a mainstream discourse according to which recent poor monsoons have led to a major “water crisis” in Mumbai, necessitating radical, emergency measures to address widespread “water theft” or “water pilferage”— especially by the urban poor. What such discourses occlude, however, are the ways that current systems of urban water provision work to systematically dehydrate and profit from urban slum communities, while water wastage by the affluent and their preferred urban facilities goes unchecked.
IoT is changing the way cities are run till recently .With real data analysis IoT can make city more resilient and sustainable. We at Vogelkop Design helps to find solutions for sustainable ways and means to do so. Attached presentation would give you glimpse of how IoT is changing the scenario.
To know more about how we can help to incorporate IoT solutions for built spaces as well as city planning , please send your queries to vogelkopdesigns@gmail.com
Future of cities implications for urban spaces 30 sept 2019Future Agenda
Urban Spaces – Challenges and Opportunities
As evermore of us globally live in increasingly growing and crowded cities, how we use urban spaces is a rising concern. This topic impacts a wide range of issues including health, identity, social cohesion, accessibility and liveability and is top of many mayoral office agendas.
Building on our Future of Cities research from 2016 (www.futureofcities.city) and ahead of a series of workshops during 2020 exploring the Future of Land Use, this is an updated view of the challenges and opportunities for urban spaces.
It is being discussed next week in Gothenburg at the Living City event hosted by Husqvarna and will then feed into the wider global Land Use programme.
If you would like to be involved in the 2020 discussions, or host an event, do let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
This abstract paper talks how we can think a certain city as a smart one, representation on modern practices to make cities smart. A set of the everyday multidimensional factors motivating the smart city concept and the primary things for anup-and-coming smart city lead is identified by exploring current working definitions of smart city and a diversity of various theoretical connections related to smart city. The document deals considered principles aligning to the three main dimensions (technology, people, and institutions) of smart city: integration of infrastructures and technology-mediated services, social learning for strengthening human infrastructure, and governance for institutional improvement and citizen engagement.
"Metro-Economics": Towards a "Unified Field Theory"RWVentures
This presentation was delivered by Bob Weissbourd as part of the Portland Plan -- Inspiring Community Series. The speech begins to tie together the various pieces of economic development -- from neighborhoods to regions, equity to prosperity, human capital to clusters -- into a comprehensive, integrated, practical approach to metropolitan economic growth.
OUR CITIES HOLD THE KEY TO
GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY.
They are the source of close to 80 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, and depending on how we develop and manage our urban infrastructures during the next three decades, they could
become either a force for environmental destruction or a primary source of ecological rejuvenation.
To achieve the latter result, the US$350 trillion to be spent on urban infrastructure and usage over the next 30 years will have to be directed towards low to zero carbon emissions, partic-ularly in the world’s small but fastest-growing cities and developing nations, where the largest impacts can be made. There are three prerequisites for this effort:
• Cities must adopt aggressive energy reduction goals and best-practice approaches to urban planning.
• Innovative financing strategies are needed to provide $20 trillion to $30 trillion in funding for additional up-front capital costs, with developed nations working together to assist developing nations in their low-carbon
urban infrastructure initiatives.
• The latest technological advances must be utilized to support and enable the planning, construction, and usage of urban infrastructure in all cities.
If the will can be mustered to aggressively pursue urban sustainability, and these three prerequisites can be put into place, forward-thinking and aspiring urban leaders can generate urgently needed reductions in global emissions, produce attractive economic returns by transforming their cities into centres for ecological innovation, and enhance their energy security.
The development of smart city leading to a progressive abandonment of rural areas towards greater cities and metropolis, which can offer many opportunities in terms of work, education, social life and so on. It can solve traffic congestion, school overcrowding, air pollution, loss of open space and skyrocketing public facilities cost.
Graham, Stephen. "Bridging urban digital divides? Urban polarisation and info...Stephen Graham
The societal diffusion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) remains starkly uneven at all scales. It is in the contemporary city that this unevenness becomes most visible. In cities, clusters and enclaves of ‘superconnected’ people, rms and institutions often rest cheek-by-jowel with large numbers of people with non-existent or rudimentary access to communications technologies. In such a context, this paper has two objectives, reected in its two parts. The rst part of the paper seeks to demonstrate that dominant trends in ICT develop- ment are currently helping to support new extremes of social and geographical unevenness within and between human settlements and cities, in both the North and the South. The paper’s second part aims to explore the prospect that such stark ‘urban digital divides’ might be ameliorated through progressive and innovative policy initiatives which treat cities and electronic technologies in parallel. It does this using a range of illustrative exemplars from a variety of contexts
Future of cities Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective...Future Agenda
Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective by an initial perspective on the future of cities by Harry Rich Chief Executive RIBA. This includes insights from events already completed adding to the starting point for the global future agenda discussions taking place through 2015 as part of the the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Water Wars in Mumbai
Stephen Graham, Renu Desai, and Colin McFarlane
Beyond the Pale
The Mumbai Mirror, January 8, 2010. A photograph shows a line of proud Mumbai police officers standing behind row upon row of what appear at first sight to be rusted machine guns (see fig. 1). But this is not one of the arms caches regularly unearthed to demonstrate the force’s effectiveness against the myriad terrorist networks that regularly target urban sites in contemporary India. Rather, the objects are water booster pumps, confiscated in a new campaign of dawn raids targeting “water theft” by slum dwellers in the Shivaji Nagar and
Govandi districts (see fig. 2 map below).
“Stealing Water to Earn a Few Bucks?” the headline reads. “Pay a Hefty
Price!” (Sathe 2010). The article details how the raids are being backed up by new legal moves to criminalize certain uses of water. Hundreds of people, arrested for installing and using the pumps, are to be prosecuted under draconian and nonbailable laws such as the Prevention of Damages to Public Property Act. All this activity is portrayed unproblematically as a heroic response to the threat that water theft in slums poses to the wider, formal, legitimate, and law-abiding city. “Pilferages, if not controlled,” writes the author, “could exhaust the potable water reserves before the next monsoon” (Sathe 2010).
Such statements tap into a mainstream discourse according to which recent poor monsoons have led to a major “water crisis” in Mumbai, necessitating radical, emergency measures to address widespread “water theft” or “water pilferage”— especially by the urban poor. What such discourses occlude, however, are the ways that current systems of urban water provision work to systematically dehydrate and profit from urban slum communities, while water wastage by the affluent and their preferred urban facilities goes unchecked.
IoT is changing the way cities are run till recently .With real data analysis IoT can make city more resilient and sustainable. We at Vogelkop Design helps to find solutions for sustainable ways and means to do so. Attached presentation would give you glimpse of how IoT is changing the scenario.
To know more about how we can help to incorporate IoT solutions for built spaces as well as city planning , please send your queries to vogelkopdesigns@gmail.com
Future of cities implications for urban spaces 30 sept 2019Future Agenda
Urban Spaces – Challenges and Opportunities
As evermore of us globally live in increasingly growing and crowded cities, how we use urban spaces is a rising concern. This topic impacts a wide range of issues including health, identity, social cohesion, accessibility and liveability and is top of many mayoral office agendas.
Building on our Future of Cities research from 2016 (www.futureofcities.city) and ahead of a series of workshops during 2020 exploring the Future of Land Use, this is an updated view of the challenges and opportunities for urban spaces.
It is being discussed next week in Gothenburg at the Living City event hosted by Husqvarna and will then feed into the wider global Land Use programme.
If you would like to be involved in the 2020 discussions, or host an event, do let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
This abstract paper talks how we can think a certain city as a smart one, representation on modern practices to make cities smart. A set of the everyday multidimensional factors motivating the smart city concept and the primary things for anup-and-coming smart city lead is identified by exploring current working definitions of smart city and a diversity of various theoretical connections related to smart city. The document deals considered principles aligning to the three main dimensions (technology, people, and institutions) of smart city: integration of infrastructures and technology-mediated services, social learning for strengthening human infrastructure, and governance for institutional improvement and citizen engagement.
"Metro-Economics": Towards a "Unified Field Theory"RWVentures
This presentation was delivered by Bob Weissbourd as part of the Portland Plan -- Inspiring Community Series. The speech begins to tie together the various pieces of economic development -- from neighborhoods to regions, equity to prosperity, human capital to clusters -- into a comprehensive, integrated, practical approach to metropolitan economic growth.
OUR CITIES HOLD THE KEY TO
GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY.
They are the source of close to 80 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, and depending on how we develop and manage our urban infrastructures during the next three decades, they could
become either a force for environmental destruction or a primary source of ecological rejuvenation.
To achieve the latter result, the US$350 trillion to be spent on urban infrastructure and usage over the next 30 years will have to be directed towards low to zero carbon emissions, partic-ularly in the world’s small but fastest-growing cities and developing nations, where the largest impacts can be made. There are three prerequisites for this effort:
• Cities must adopt aggressive energy reduction goals and best-practice approaches to urban planning.
• Innovative financing strategies are needed to provide $20 trillion to $30 trillion in funding for additional up-front capital costs, with developed nations working together to assist developing nations in their low-carbon
urban infrastructure initiatives.
• The latest technological advances must be utilized to support and enable the planning, construction, and usage of urban infrastructure in all cities.
If the will can be mustered to aggressively pursue urban sustainability, and these three prerequisites can be put into place, forward-thinking and aspiring urban leaders can generate urgently needed reductions in global emissions, produce attractive economic returns by transforming their cities into centres for ecological innovation, and enhance their energy security.
The development of smart city leading to a progressive abandonment of rural areas towards greater cities and metropolis, which can offer many opportunities in terms of work, education, social life and so on. It can solve traffic congestion, school overcrowding, air pollution, loss of open space and skyrocketing public facilities cost.
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SophiaConf2010 Présentation des Retours d'expériences de la Conférence du 08 Juillet - HTML 5, une plateforme contemporaine pour le Web : Stefano Crosta, Chief Technical Officer de SLICE FACTORY ; Raphaël Troncy, Maître de Conférences à Eurecom.
In the 1990s, as the digital revolution began to gather pace, some social commentators speculated that it would lead to the death of the city. People’s geographical location would become less important, the argument went, as they came to interact mostly in cyberspace.
1. Letter to all state governments to shortlist potential Smart Cities based on Stage-I criteria according to a number of Smart Cities distributed across states /UTs by the MoUD. This is the first stage of the Intra-State competition.
2. On the basis of response from States/UTs, the list of potential 100 Smart Cities is announced. The second stage of the All India competition begins.
3. Each potential Smart City prepares its proposal assisted by a consultant (from a panel prepared by MoUD) and a hand-holding External Agency (various offers received such as World Bank, ADB, GEF, USTDA, JICA, DFID, AFD, KfW, UN-Habitat)
4. By stipulated date, Stage 2 proposals submitted. Evaluation by a panel of experts.
5. Selected cities declared – Round 1 Smart Cities
6. Selected cities set up SPV and start the implementation of their SCP. Preparation of DPRs, tenders, etc. and Other cities prepare to improve their proposal for the next round of the Challenge
This article aims to present how to build smart and sustainable cities to provide their rational management, improve the quality of life for the entire population, the sustainable development of the city and the democratization of government decisions with the participation of the entire population. Every city achieves the status of a smart city when its managers consider it as a system and make use of information technology in its planning and control process, counting on the effective support of its population. Every smart city requires the use of information technology with the use of various devices connected to the IoT (Internet of Things) network to manage the city's operations and services rationally and connect with its citizens. Information technology allows city managers to interact directly with their executing agencies and the population and monitor what is happening in the city and how the city is evolving in real time. Information technology must be used to improve the quality, performance and interactivity of urban services, reduce costs and consumption of resources, and increase contact between citizens and government. A smart city can be better prepared to respond to the challenges faced by its managers and its population. Every city will reach the status of a smart city when the city's humanization goals are achieved, with the improvement of the quality of life for the entire population, the city's sustainable development and the democratization of government decisions with the participation of the entire population.
The Contribution of Technologies in the Development of Smart Cities.Techugo
Technologies are driving the development of smart cities by enabling efficient infrastructure, data-driven decision-making, IoT connectivity, renewable energy solutions, and improved services for citizens, fostering sustainability and quality of life.
In less than 40 years, 70% of the world’s population will reside in our cities. This rapid
migration will push both current and future urban centres to their seams and expand industrial
and residential infrastructures beyond their breaking points.
This eye-opening fact raises important questions that must be considered by cities around the
world. Can this growth be done in a sustainable way? Will cities be able to reduce their
environmental impact and carbon emissions? Will we be able to meet the sustainability
challenges brought on by regulation and the impact of this massive growth? And, will we
expand in ways which ensure communities are enjoyable places to live and promote social
equality?
We can answer affirmatively to these concerns, and re-design our cities with these thoughts
in mind. With the movement towards smart cities, the urban centres we live in can become
more efficient, livable, and sustainable in both the short and long term, thanks to involvement from city, citizens, and businesses.
Abstract:
In 2050, the number of people living in cities will be almost as large as the world’s entire population today. That’s why we need completely new approaches to be taken in order to make our cities to be Smart City. Smart Cities gained importance as a means of making ICT enabled services and applications available to the citizens, and authorities that are part of a city’s system. It aims at increasing citizens’ quality of life, and improving the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing entities and businesses. Smart City is a type of city that uses new technologies to make them more livable, functional, competitive and modern through the use of new technologies, the promotion of innovation and knowledge management. Cities today are facing significant challenges including increasing populations, infrastructures, and declining budgets.
For the first time, more people live in cities than in rural areas, bringing new challenges. ICT is playing a critical role in addressing these challenges and benefiting society.
Information & Communication Technology key to enable sustainable urbanizationEricsson
For the first time in human history more people live in cities than in rural areas. By 2050 it is expected that 7 out of 10 people will be urbanites, with the majority of growth occurring in cities of the Global South. A new report co-written with UN Habitat shows how technology can enable economically, socially and environmentally sustainable cities, with emphasis on solving the challenge of access to water.
The fifth edition of the report ranks Stockholm first followed by London, Paris, Singapore and Copenhagen.
The 2014 edition of the Networked Society City Index examines and ranks 40 cities from around the world, looking at their performance, challenges and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability and development. The extensive research gives us a glimpse into the future of the city.
The report also continues to explore the connection between ICT maturity and triple bottom line development in cities around the world.
One of the key findings from the report is the fact that cities with a low ICT maturity tend to be improving their ICT maturity faster than high performing cities, indicating a catch-up effect. Many cities also have the opportunity to leapfrog by avoiding expensive and increasingly obsolete physical infrastructure and instead move straight ahead to advanced mobile technology.
Stockholm’s top ranking is thanks to its well-developed ICT infrastructure, extremely well-developed open data and e-services and high-quality access to both fixed and mobile broadband, thanks to extensive infrastructure rollouts.
Connected and Sustainable Mobility WhitepaperShane Mitchell
Urban mobility problems are rapidly turning into an urban mobility crisis.
ICT offers enormous capabilities, but most are vastly underutilized in urban transportation.
Public- and private-sector organizations must partner in adopting a vision for the sustainable city of the future where transportation continues to play a key role in enabling mobility—yet is dramatically transformed by innovative ICT.
Business Valuation Principles for EntrepreneursBen Wann
This insightful presentation is designed to equip entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and tools needed to accurately value their businesses. Understanding business valuation is crucial for making informed decisions, whether you're seeking investment, planning to sell, or simply want to gauge your company's worth.
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𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐬 (𝐓𝐉 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬) is a professional event agency that includes experts in the event-organizing market in Vietnam, Korea, and ASEAN countries. We provide unlimited types of events from Music concerts, Fan meetings, and Culture festivals to Corporate events, Internal company events, Golf tournaments, MICE events, and Exhibitions.
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"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬."
Improving profitability for small businessBen Wann
In this comprehensive presentation, we will explore strategies and practical tips for enhancing profitability in small businesses. Tailored to meet the unique challenges faced by small enterprises, this session covers various aspects that directly impact the bottom line. Attendees will learn how to optimize operational efficiency, manage expenses, and increase revenue through innovative marketing and customer engagement techniques.
RMD24 | Debunking the non-endemic revenue myth Marvin Vacquier Droop | First ...BBPMedia1
Marvin neemt je in deze presentatie mee in de voordelen van non-endemic advertising op retail media netwerken. Hij brengt ook de uitdagingen in beeld die de markt op dit moment heeft op het gebied van retail media voor niet-leveranciers.
Retail media wordt gezien als het nieuwe advertising-medium en ook mediabureaus richten massaal retail media-afdelingen op. Merken die niet in de betreffende winkel liggen staan ook nog niet in de rij om op de retail media netwerken te adverteren. Marvin belicht de uitdagingen die er zijn om echt aansluiting te vinden op die markt van non-endemic advertising.
The key differences between the MDR and IVDR in the EUAllensmith572606
In the European Union (EU), two significant regulations have been introduced to enhance the safety and effectiveness of medical devices – the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) and the Medical Device Regulation (MDR).
https://mavenprofserv.com/comparison-and-highlighting-of-the-key-differences-between-the-mdr-and-ivdr-in-the-eu/
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Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability Through Innovation
1. Overview
Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability
Through Innovation
An Overview of the Connected Urban
Development Program
Written specifically for
Connected Urban Development Global Conference 2008
Authors
Nicola Villa and Wolfgang Wagener,
Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group
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3. Overview
Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability Through Innovation
An Overview of the Connected Urban Development Program
In the 21st century, sustainable development—defined by the United Nations as the
“interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of economic development, social
development, and environmental protection”1—has emerged as a major strategy and
policy priority among government and enterprise organizations globally. To secure sus-
tainable development, the world faces a number of prominent challenges. Preeminent
among these are energy use and climate change—and the associated risks of massive
environmental degradation that would heavily impact people around the globe.
In recent years, world temperatures have reached record highs, oil prices have climbed
to new peaks, and the market for clean energy technologies has grown dramatically.
Issues such as the “carbon intensity” of current economic growth patterns, the need
to make available resources more productive, and the huge demand for energy are
becoming paramount.
Sustainable Cities
Cities are the largest contributor to energy consumption and climate change.
The world’s 20 megacities alone, each with a population exceeding 10 million, are
responsible for 75 percent of the planet’s energy use. With their populations on the
rise—according to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world will live in cities by
2030—cities are experiencing considerable increases in energy consumption. It is
expected that by 2010, global electricity use will grow by more than 35 percent—
and by more than 75 percent by 2020.2
Cities are also centers of innovation, economic growth, social transformation,
healthcare, and education—and most are taking a proactive approach to address the
urban sustainability challenge. The unprecedented development of new cities around
the globe, however, and the need to renew outdated 20th century infrastructures in
mature cities, require the creation of new urban design, metropolitan governance, and
infrastructure investment models.
Most attention in sustainable urban development has been directed to three sectors:
buildings, energy, and mobility. Today, however, it is becoming evident that a fourth,
equally important element must be addressed: information and communications
technology (ICT).
When it comes to urban sustainability, ICT is part of the problem (based on its
contribution to overall energy consumption), but an even bigger element of the
solution. A recent study,3 for example, found that ICT is a significant contributor to
energy efficiency: for every extra kilowatt-hour of electricity demanded by ICT, the U.S.
economy increases its overall energy savings by a factor of 10.
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4. Overview
Sustainability and ICT are emerging at the commencement of the 21st century
as two sides of the same coin: both are innovations for cities seeking to improve
their environmental effectiveness in the context of connected societies, global
competitiveness, economic development, climate change, and demographic shifts.
The Role of ICT in Sustainable Urban Development
Historically, urban development made communications and human interaction easier
through concentrated physical development. Before ICT, all communications needed
physical movement. Cities developed as spatially fixed places supported by a massive
fabric of land parcels, buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and the material transportation
and infrastructure networks required to support the physical flow of goods, people, and
resources. Sustainable urban development is no longer viewed in such narrow terms.
Today’s cities are linked by a global information and communications infrastructure
that facilitates communications, human interaction, collaboration, and mobility.
Information is coming to people, rather than the reverse. As a result, cities are evolving
into places where overlapping networks of companies, institutions, civil societies, and
citizens are supported by ICT-enabled flows of people, materials, information, capital,
services, and media.
We believe that the transformational influences of 21st century ICT networks, and
the resulting knowledge-based economy, are as significant as the two major waves
of “network” innovation that characterized 20th century urban development. The
first happened at the beginning of the last century, triggered by the age of steel,
electricity, and heavy engineering, resulting in electrical networks. The second took
place at midcentury, with the automobile and other forms of transportation spurring
suburbanization and sprawl through networks of roads, highways, ports, and airports.
Today, worldwide digital communications and the Internet are becoming the fourth
utility in cities (in addition to roads, water, and electricity). Similar to the beginning
of last century, when newly built electrical networks were the focus, today’s citizens,
governments, and enterprise organizations are taking advantage of digital services
delivered over the Internet.
Global Internet penetration has reached 20 percent,4 while the quality and speed of
access have increased dramatically as well. High broadband growth rates are no longer
restricted just to developed northern European and northeast Asian countries and cities.
In the last two years, for example, Paris moved from being a broadband laggard to
becoming the most fiber-enabled city in the world, thanks to forward-thinking public
policy. Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Greece have witnessed
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5. Overview
spectacular growth in national broadband penetration and speed. While Japan’s fiber-
to-the-home penetration increased to 16 percent5 of total homes, and Seoul’s Internet
penetration reached 95 percent6 of the population, countries such as South Africa and
Australia launched aggressive broadband development programs. Broadband-based
Internet access is becoming a reality for the Himalayan villagers of Dharamsala, thanks
to an initiative by local entrepreneurs called AirJaldi.
3 Effects of ICT-enabled Sustainable Urban Development
Virtually all proposed solutions to energy consumption and climate change—such
as Sir Nicholas Stern’s “Stern Review: Report on the Economics of Climate Change,”
as well as the two “Climate Change” reports published by the European Union’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—acknowledge the role ICT plays
as a key enabler of environmental effectiveness in large metropolitan areas. But virtually
no report or study has addressed exactly how urban ICT and broadband connectivity
can help, and what the carbon-reduction impact of innovative urban ICT policy for
energy efficiency can be.
Figure 1. 3 Ways ICT Impacts Sustainable Development of Cities
Direct Result
Direct of ICT
– Existence
Use of
Indirect ICT
+ Applications
Long-Term
Systemic Socioeconomic
+ Changes
Source: Cisco IBSG, 2008
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6. Overview
Any discussion of sustainable urban development must acknowledge that ICT is
part of the problem facing cities today, based on its ever-increasing levels of energy
consumption. This downside, however, is more than mitigated by ICT’s valuable
contributions to energy efficiency, its ability to reduce energy demand in other
activities (e.g., using teleworking to reduce trips to the office), and the existence of ICT
applications that increase the efficiency of energy used in these activities (e.g., car
routing that cuts traffic congestion).
We believe that urban ICT impacts sustainable development of cities in three ways:
directly, indirectly, and systemically.
• Direct effects are caused by the physical existence of urban ICT infrastructures.
They are resource-intensive in manufacturing and distribution, consuming ever-
greater amounts of energy and creating escalating volumes of solid and toxic
waste. Mature cities already estimate that the direct ICT contribution to their energy
consumption ranges between 5 percent and 15 percent.7 More energy-efficient ICT
solutions and architectures are being rapidly developed at the industry level, where
businesses are starting to collaborate on the creation of consortia, such as the Green
Grid initiative.
• Indirect effects stem from the use of broadband and ICT applications. They are
the essential driver for productivity improvements and innovation (for instance, the
virtualization of government and business services), as well as for more efficient
management, control, and visualization of urban networks (buildings, energy
production and use, mobility, water and sewage, open spaces, public health, and
safety). For example, one U.S. study8 projects that use of broadband could save 1
billion tons of greenhouse gases over 10 years—representing 11 percent of annual
oil imports—through transportation substitution and “dematerialization.”9
• Systemic effects link the network impact of ICT to society and urban planning
at large. ICT innovations are catalysts of structural change for personal, work, and
community life that will result in the development of more distributed, compact,
and mixed-use urban forms. Green real estate development in densely populated
locations could have the most significant impact on sustainable urban development,
reducing energy consumption from the average suburban U.S. household by
75 percent, according to a paper published by Harvard Business School.10
– Access to global networks and ICT resources is a requirement for individual
and community success in the “Information Age”—and for driving the kind of
continuous innovation that will be essential to competing successfully in the
global economy. With proper focus, planning, and policies, cities can be centers
of ICT-enabled innovation for sustainable growth.
Although these three ICT-enabled effects will have the most significant impact on urban
sustainability, they are not yet well understood. Our fundamental belief is that today’s
flow of people, goods, energy, information, media, and services in cities can be as
efficient as the traffic of digital packets on the Internet.
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7. Overview
The Connected Urban Development Program
Attempts to reduce carbon emissions by cutting consumption of greenhouse gas-
producing fuels have been largely unsuccessful. Reduction of energy consumption
is viewed by many as counterproductive to economic growth, and such measures
have been difficult to implement and impossible to enforce. Developing a new way of
approaching the problem is critical, given the urgency posed by rapid climate change.
Connected Urban Development (CUD) was born from Cisco’s participation in the
Clinton Global Initiative—launched by the William J. Clinton Foundation in 2005 to solve
global problems that affect the quality of human life—to help reduce carbon emissions
and improve energy efficiency.
The CUD program initially involves three pilot cities: San Francisco, California;
Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Seoul, South Korea. These cities were selected
because each had implemented or planned to execute a next-generation broadband
(fiber and/or wireless) infrastructure; each suffers from significant traffic congestion
issues; and each is led by a visionary mayor already involved in green initiatives. CUD relies
heavily on the leadership of city mayors—and their commitment to ICT-enabled sustainability.
In its first phase, the CUD team is building partnerships with these cities to promote
innovative practices using ICT to reduce CO2. Each of these cities will focus on
excelling in one or two key areas. The result will be a blueprint of best practices and
methodologies that other cities can reference in the second phase of the program,
which will focus on scaling CUD’s benefits to other cities around the globe. Areas
addressed are Green ICT, Connected and Sustainable Built Environment, Connected
and Sustainable Mobility, Connected and Sustainable Work, and Connected and
Sustainable Energy.
Figure 2. Connected Urban Development Solution Framework
Connected Connected Connected Connected
and Sustainable and Sustainable and Sustainable and Sustainable
Work Mobility Energy Buildings
ICT-Enabled City Infrastructure: Built Environment, Transportation, Energy, Water
Application-Enhancing Services Collaboration-Enhancing Services
Interactive
Adaptive
Services
Security Services Voice Services
Policy
Layer
Mobility Services Infrastructure-Enhancing Computing Services
Services
Storage Services Identity Services
Green Information and Communication Infrastructure
Source: Cisco IBSG, 2008
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8. Overview
The 4 Principles of CUD
CUD is based on four principles:
1. ICT directly contributes both to energy usage and CO2 reduction. Industry efforts
aimed at developing energy-efficient technology solutions can contribute to a
sensible reduction of the environmental footprint in cities. But collaboration between
government and industry, along with development of effective policy, are essential to
a successful greening of ICT.
2. Deploying broadband-based applications and services improves energy
efficiencies. These can be clustered in four major areas: Connected and Sustainable
Built Environment, Connected and Sustainable Mobility, Connected and Sustainable
Work, and Connected and Sustainable Energy.
3. Urban pervasive broadband infrastructure and continuous development of
application and services clusters can enable radically innovative practices in
the areas of urban form and planning, energy policy, new working practices, and
new lifestyles. ICT pervasiveness and the emergence of Web 2.0 are having
dramatic implications on the socioeconomic tissue of a city, as well as on its
energy-efficiency policy.
4. ICT and broadband connectivity have become enablers of combined, citywide
urban policy, and of previously disconnected operational programs. Integration
of data and processes across siloed government initiatives is becoming a reality.
Mobility, Built Environment, and Energy-related efficiency initiatives can now be
successfully combined into integrated urban development programs.
Cisco relies on its networking expertise to provide a viable and sustainable solution
for helping cities reduce carbon emissions. CUD draws on expertise from the Cisco
Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)—Cisco’s global strategic consulting
arm—and researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The
program demonstrates how to reduce carbon emissions by introducing fundamental
improvements in the efficiency of urban infrastructure through ICT. The CUD approach
is different because it changes the way cities work and how they utilize resources.
The scope of the program will transcend the environmental dimension, delivering
innovative, sustainable models for urban planning and economic development. Cisco’s
Corporate Development organization will invest US$15 million in the program over
the next five years, including people, research, and equipment. Initially, Cisco IBSG will
manage the project and support each city’s strategic planning process by creating or
acquiring research and providing analysis.
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9. Overview
Connecting Within and Among Cities
CUD’s vision is to create a global community of cities committed to sustainability. This
focus is reflected in CUD’s theme, “Connecting Cities: Achieving Sustainability Through
Innovation,” which refers both to the need to connect within cities (which, by inference,
includes technology) and to the importance of connecting among cities. It is the start
of a dialogue about how cities can develop coherent, long-term policies and plans to
manage the environmental impacts of ICT, and to utilize ICT strategically for creating
sustainable 21st century cities.
About Cisco and the Clinton Global Initiative
The William J. Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005 to solve global problems
that affect the quality of human life. The initiative brings a community of global leaders together to devise
and implement innovative solutions that address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. It aligns with
Cisco’s strategy to reduce dependency on physical travel by investing in collaboration technologies that help
reduce carbon emissions.
Recognizing Cisco for its role in addressing climate change, President Bill Clinton, in his book Giving: How
Each of Us Can Change the World, wrote: “Cisco, the global information technology giant, has committed to
reduce its CO2 emissions by 10 percent, primarily through a 20 percent company-wide travel reduction. It has
also made a pledge with potentially far greater impact. The company will invest $15 million over the next three
to five years to develop plans to reduce traffic congestion in cities, beginning with San Francisco, Seoul, and
Amsterdam. Based on the projects, Cisco will develop a Connected Urban Development program, which can
be used to improve sustainability in other urban areas, lowering CO2 emissions and saving both citizens and
local governments time and money.”
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10. Overview
End Notes
1. World Summit Outcome Document, United Nations, 2005
http://www.un.org/summit2005/documents.html
2. “All About: Cities and Energy Consumption,” CNN, December 31, 2007
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/12/31/eco.cities/index.html
3. “Information and Communication Technologies: The Power of Productivity, How ICT
Sectors Are Transforming the Economy While Driving Gains in Energy Productivity,”
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, February 2008
4. Internet World Stats, December 2007
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
5. FTTH Council, July 2007 http://www.ftthcouncil.org/?t=231
6. City of Seoul, Department of Information Technology
7. “Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed
Report and Appendices,” Energy Analysis Department, Environmental Energy
Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of
California, Berkeley, February 2001 (http://enduse.lbl.gov/Projects/InfoTech.html);
“Energy Consumption of Information and Communication Technology in Germany up
to 2010, Project Number 28/01, Summary of the Final Report to the German Federal
Ministry for Economics and Labour,” Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation
Research ISI, Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE), Karlsruhe/Zurich,
January 2003; “An Inefficient Truth,” Global Action Plan, London, United Kingdom,
December 2007; “ICTs and Climate Change,” ITU-T Technology Watch Briefing
Report No. 3, November 2007 (see “The Impact of ICT on Global Emissions” report
prepared by McKinsey & Company for the UN Environment Group, October 24, 2007)
8. “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” American Consumer
Institute, Joseph P. Fuhr Jr. and Stephen B. Pociask, October 31, 2007
9. Other examples include installation of a smart grid by Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory to control energy consumption in homes, cutting the average household
electric bill by 10 percent annually. This could avoid the need to build 30 large coal
power plants over the next 20 years in the United States alone—saving $70 billion in
new plant investments (source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, January 2008).
In addition, the State of Missouri reduced energy consumption by 20 percent across
100 buildings by networking climate-control systems to ensure they operate effectively
(source: Dave Mosby, director of facilities, State of Missouri, December 2007).
10. “The New Real Estate,” Working Knowledge for Business Leaders, Harvard Business
School, Arthur I. Segel, March 12, 2007 (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5620.html)
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