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  • AI: The Brainpower Behind Resilient Cities

    AI: The Brainpower Behind Resilient Cities

    Andrew Rippon Cities are complex organisms, constantly evolving and adapting to new challenges. As climate change intensifies and urbanization accelerates, the need for resilient urban infrastructure has never been greater. Enter Artificial Intelligence (AI), a powerful tool that is revolutionizing how cities prepare for and respond to disruptions. AI, with its ability to analyze vast… Read more

  • Città intelligenti: come l’IA sta costruendo il futuro urbano

    Città intelligenti: come l’IA sta costruendo il futuro urbano

    Città intelligenti: come l’IA sta costruendo il futuro urban Ciao a tutti! Oggi voglio parlarvi di un argomento che mi affascina molto: come l’intelligenza artificiale (IA) sta trasformando le nostre città in luoghi più resilienti, sostenibili e a prova di futuro. Le città sono come organismi complessi, in continua evoluzione e alle prese con nuove… Read more

  • Sustainable Mobility: Hanging around with Smart infrastructure

    Sustainable Mobility: Hanging around with Smart infrastructure

    I have been a fan of urban gondolas since I visited a traditionally based one in Brest. This innovation of the concept in Sharjah is a very impressive advancement that can be practically applied to many municipal contexts. One of the many benefits of sky pods, is the minimal footprint the infrastructure requires, as compared… Read more

  • Sustainable Mobility: A solar powered scooter from the 1950s?

    Sustainable Mobility: A solar powered scooter from the 1950s?

    This looks like one of those crazy designs for cars or planes that evolved in the 1950s, which pushed the levels of efficiency with no regard for commercial realities or practicalities of liveability, a la Tucker 48.  This one works though, given avarage city driving ranges. The kilometre distances are: 1. full charge (1.1 kWh… Read more

  • CityScape Global

    CityScape Global

    Who is going to CityScape Global in Riyadh this week? More importantly, who isn’t going and wants representation? Let’s get in touch. Read more

  • Hot Take: Implementing AI

    Concerning the current excitement over AI, which is in understandable, perhaps it is wise to take care on implemetation wisdom based on past hype tech, specifically DLT. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run” said Roy Amara. This applied very well… Read more

  • More reasons to look at digital voting

    More reasons to look at digital voting

    The incident of ballot burning last night in the USA election, while small, is yet another value add for the widespread deployment of Digital Signatures and Distributed Ledger electronic mobile voting. At the last presidential election, discussion was ongoing about voting by mobile, indeed the discussion has been ongoing since at least the early 2000s.… Read more

  • AI and Blockchain

    This document I found on LinkedIn has an interesting fusion of AI and DLT to solve a pressing corporate problem. A similar approach can be used for supply chain, construction management and as an underlying automator to city management, as I have pushed for recently in the digital twin context. Read more

  • How much smart city is too much?

    Grab the Data, then work it out Have you seen that amusing meme with a picture of a couple in the 1960 dining in luxury on an airplane, with an airline host serving them from a trolley overflowing with luscious foods? The couple are sitting in luxury seats with a silver service of cutlery and… Read more

  • Electronic voting for cities, governments and companies

    Electronic voting for cities, governments and companies

    This blog is intended to discuss the current state of Know Your Customer (KYC) technology and explore the new technologies that can be applied to the process as well as propose a methodology that can be implement to combine these technologies in new services for cities. Today KYC has multiple challenges, including the cost of… Read more