The Smart Cities Connect biannual conference often serves as a barometer for smart-city progress, challenges and private-sector partnerships in the smart-cities space. The Spring 2024 theme, "Innovating with Cities to Create a Better World," highlighted the need for private-public partnerships to ease the deployment and integration of smart infrastructure, open-source tools and...
READIntroduction In a bid to usher in a new era of digital infrastructure across the EU, namely 5G systems, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) was established in 2021 under the European Health and Digital Executive Agency. CEF Digital has a budget of €1.6 billion from 2021-2027. The initiative has held two calls for proposals, with a third closing at the end of February. ...
READIntroduction The advent of smart cities has brought with it promises of more efficient, sustainable towns and communities that use data to enhance quality of life for their citizens. City employees have always been tasked with managing public data — building permits, crime records and census data — but the advent of IoT applications brings new, near-constant streams of data com...
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