The buzz around smart cities continues to grow, and these articles offer a glimpse into the exciting present and promising future of urban innovation. AI emerges as a game-changer, driving intelligent transportation, optimized infrastructure, and data-driven decision-making. Collaboration between diverse stakeholders – governments, businesses, universities, and citizens – is highlighted as key to success. But amidst the technological advancements, sustainability remains a central theme, ensuring smart cities are not just efficient, but also environmentally responsible.
From Tampere's data-driven approach to New York's AI-powered initiatives and Helsinki's digital twin project, these articles showcase diverse implementations across the globe. Resources like Forum Virium Helsinki and the CommuniCity Open Call further empower cities to harness the potential of smart technologies.
So, buckle up for a future where your city might anticipate your needs, optimize resources, and offer a seamless, sustainable living experience – all powered by the collective minds of a smart and collaborative community.
Three billion citizens will head to the polls during the next two years. These people must be protected from AI-generated misinformation and disinformation.
The City of Tampere is developing its services with the help of the data it collects. Data is defined as digitally stored, machine-readable information consisting of characters and symbols. To support the development work, Tampere has created its first data strategy. – Data is already being utilised in different parts of the city organization. Now...
This second round of open calls utilises the experiences from the first round of open calls in order to share the best practices to the participating cities. Furthermore, it aims to expand the upcoming CommuniCity Toolkits and Manuals for European cities and beyond. The total amount of grants reserved for this second round is over […] The post CommuniCity...
The InnoHEIs aimed at improving regional policies to enlarge the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) and their research and innovation infrastructure. The partners collaborated for 4 years identifying the best practices in partner regions how to foster entrepreneurship and creativity, enable the entrepreneurship discovery process and enhance...
Open innovation is a powerful approach to create new types of services for people mobility and logistics. It involves collaborating with external partners, such as customers, suppliers, startups, universities, and public institutions, to share knowledge, resources, and risks. By doing so, open innovation can help overcome the challenges and uncertainties...
New York City is hoping to make waves in the global AI conversations, implementing several strategies – and a new ChatBot – to do so.
Forum Virium Helsinki is a non-profit innovation company of the City of Helsinki. Our role is to bring cities and citizens, researchers and companies together to innovate low-carbon urban solutions for Helsinki, Finland and the entire European Union. We have been co-creating Smart City, Smart Mobility and Data solutions since 2005 together with a number...
What is a digital twin? A virtual clone of a real system, such as a factory, a building or a city, which uses data to mirror its current state and behaviour. A digital twin is not a static model, but a dynamic one that changes along with its physical counterpart, thanks to real-time data streams. It sounds like a great tool for engineers, but it is...
1. Now is AI’s ‘iPhone moment’ Using artificial intelligence (AI) has become a part of many knowledge workers’ routines in the past year as services like ChatGPT have made artificial intelligence more commonplace. At the Barcelona expo, AI was perhaps the most significant new and growing topic, especially from the perspective of cities and transport....
A Virtual World - Self-Driving Car is a JavaScript video course which you can follow on YouTube. The course teaches you how to create a virtual environment using OpenStreetMap data, in which virtual self-driving cars drive around on the streets of an interactive map.If you haven't got the time (or inclination) to build your own virtual world then...
When Logan Farrell places one of his Rugged Robots on the floor of a commercial construction project, it knows exactly what to do: draw the layout of the building. The robot references 3D computer architectural and engineering designs to place details like lines, columns, and the diameter of water pipes throughout the construction zone. This task was...
In the open call, the Mobility Lab Helsinki project by Forum Virium and Business Helsinki sought solutions for the development work of the digital twin of mobility in Helsinki, including using AI for the identification and classification of street traffic conditions or equipment, combining existing location information as new materials, and developing...
Why leave the Adobe ecosystem?I’ve been subscribing to Adobe Photography Plan since 2019 but started using Lightroom Classic in 2016 when I started shooting in RAW format. Since last year, I’ve considered leaving the Adobe ecosystem for a while. After I began posting images on Pixelfed and decided to close my SmugMug account, I realized that my photo-processing...
A new report calls on the Singapore government to provide financial support that will help companies accelerate their digital transformation and sustainability programs.
The Call for Applications for city-to-city exchanges is now continuously open. Applications can be submitted and approved for implementation on a rolling basis. A city-to-city exchange brings together an urban authority (‘the applicant’) facing a specific implementation challenge related to Sustainable Urban Development and another urban...
ChatGPT can double as your personal, on-demand travel agent. Here's how.
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