Jon Glasco
Open Data and Innovation: Vast Opportunities, Untapped Value
More than a decade ago, governments throughout the world made a radical policy shift from storing data in government silos to ...
Smart Sustainable Cities in Spain: The Commitment to a Green Economy
Climate change is currently showing one of its harshest sides. Europe is groaning under the heat and further droughts in ...
How Smart Cities adapt to extreme heat waves
In the animated film Rango, life-threatening heat plays a role in the story. In an opening scene, the protagonist staggers ...
The Circular Economy: Vision, Problems and Smart City Solutions
Our current economic model - known as a linear economy - is not sustainable. This is the warning we hear from scientists, ...
Navigating the Challenges of Open Data and Participatory Governance
Smart cities must collect plenty of data as a means to analyse urban problems and support participatory governance. ...
Smart Cities and Urban Mobility: Why Public Transport Matters
Jane Jacobs — journalist, urban theorist and critic — dared to ask in the 20th century why cities were built for cars. While ...
Smart Tourism - Innovation and Reinvention for an Industry in Crisis
As 2019 drew to a close, the travel and tourism industry had reasons to celebrate. The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), ...
Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City
Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, ...
Smart City Vilnius: Embracing the Arts and Cultural Heritage
After surviving decades of occupation by a foreign power, how does a city restore and capture the value of its strengths in the ...
Unsafe to Cross: The Need for Pedestrian Safety Solutions
Ensuring pedestrian safety is a complex challenge throughout the world - especially when many smart cities are encouraging more ...
5G Enables Smart City Innovation
Mobile operators worldwide are investing in 5G networks, and proponents of this much-hyped technology believe it will enable a ...
Mobility as a Service: A Blueprint for Disruption?
In less than a decade, the concept known as mobility as a service (MaaS) has captured the imagination of visionaries and ...
E-Scooters: A Collision Between Innovation And Controversy
In their eagerness to create breakthrough technologies and disruptive platforms, innovators sometimes collide with an ...
E-Scooters: A Passing Fad or Smart Mobility?
Electric scooters appeal to those who want to move quickly and easily through urban streets at low cost while avoiding ...
Smart Cities and the Promise of Innovation in Public Services
There was a time when bells in town squares warned citizens of impending danger. Today, the bells ring again in the form of ...