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Digital Architecture & ePlanning for Smart Cities

The NSW spatial digital twin is a new product, but the concept of a digital twin is not new. In fact, “there are literally thousands of digital twins or digital models of pretty much everything that exists in our built and natural environment.” The purpose of the one in NSW is “to utilise spatial information positioning technologies to position information and digital models in their real-world location.” In other words, it is designed to “integrate otherwise isolated individual models into their real-world locations.” We are all moving down a digitally data driven society, and without having a spatial digital twin …

Digital Architecture & ePlanning for Smart Cities

Local Government & Communities

Highlight Reel: Workforce Transformation in the Public Sector

Like so many organizations, the City of Hamilton in the Province of Ontario experienced tremendous turmoil in 2020 as a result of COVID-19. Nenzi Cocca, the Director of Human Resources (HR) Systems & Operations at the City of Hamilton, says that the pandemic brought with it “a number of unexpected challenges when bringing on new employees, and we had some employees that were retiring too.” Very quickly “we had to figure out a way to make sure that knowledge transfer happened as seamlessly as possible.” This was particularly important because the HR division is one of the most important. “I …

Highlight Reel: Workforce Transformation in the Public Sector

Smart Cities & Mobility

Designing & Delivering Innovative Smart City Services to Citizens

All cities need to grow and evolve to remain relevant and attractive to their residents, but smart cities need to find genuine innovations to enhance the liveability of their cities in new and exciting ways. This paper brings together three experts involved in smart city design from three jurisdictions. Each is a proponent of smart city design and innovation, and their methodologies and areas of focus are different. However, their desire to ensure that their cities are innovative, sustainable and constantly evolving is constant and unwavering.

Designing & Delivering Innovative Smart City Services to Citizens

Local Government & Communities

Executive Q&A: An Insider's Look at DevOps in the Public Sector

In this exclusive Q&A with the Senior Application Developer & DevOps Engineer at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Rayvn Manuel, we explore her career in the public sector, the impact of COVID-19 upon her work, and more.

Executive Q&A: An Insider's Look at DevOps in the Public Sector

Local Government & Communities

Let's Talk Smart Cities: Q&A with the CIO of Chattanooga, TN

Brent is an award-winning, entrepreneurial-minded change agent who is helping to lead the smart city initiatives being introduced in the ‘Gig City’ and that will help to transform people’s lives. Culture! Well from an IT perspective our motto is Semper Novandi, meaning Always Innovating. The impetus coming from changing and challenging the status quo. Chattanooga has a different culture when it comes to innovating in government (words that used to be oxymorons). Whereas traditional government agencies look at innovation as the slow evolvement of technological capabilities and generally focused on traditional internal processes (e.g. finance and ERP systems, etc), Chattanooga …

Let's Talk Smart Cities: Q&A with the CIO of Chattanooga, TN

Smart Cities & Mobility

Transforming the Way You Use Data in Your Smart City

Being a smart city these days is not just about digitisation; it is about using data to inform the technology and the decision-making within a city. It is about becoming a data-driven smart city. This paper brings together smart city decision-makers from three different jurisdictions. They each share an appreciation of data and how to use it to ensure that their citizens continue to benefit from the opportunities that smart cities represent.

Transforming the Way You Use Data in Your Smart City

Smart Cities & Mobility

Smart Mobility

Innovation is common in the transport sector, but never has it been needed as much as it was during the pandemic. Many passengers lost confidence in their public transport networks because of safety concerns when social distancing was required, so providers needed to develop creative solutions and ideas to win customers back. This paper brings together three managers from transport agencies in New Zealand and the UK and follows their journeys and innovations before, during, and after COVID-19 hit their jurisdictions. Though none of them were directly prepared for the pandemic, their careful thinking and creative ideas allowed them to …

Smart Mobility

Smart Cities & Mobility

Delivering the Future Sustainable Smart City 2020

Cities around the world are constantly evolving and growing, and to continue to do this, many are looking at becoming smart cities – cities that are sustainable, adaptable and able to grow and evolve with the increases in their populations, and as technologies develop.

Delivering the Future Sustainable Smart City 2020

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