Daniel Burrus
OCTOBER 7, 2015
As these tech developments give us greater insight into how the many different facets of our cities truly function, both local leaders and major companies are gaining the Foresight to come up with myriad solutions, thus creating “smart cities.”. ©2015 Burrus Research, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. Reprinted with permission from Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022). .
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Utiliity Dive
JUNE 16, 2025
Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2015 Annual Energy Outlook forecasted annual load growth of less than 1% through 2040. Demand for electricity looks completely different today. A report released at the end of 2024 by the consulting firm Grid Strategies forecasts electricity demand growth of 16%, or 128 gigawatts, by 2029.
Sustainable Development Network
MAY 2, 2017
By Derek Ouyang, Lecturer, Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative, Stanford University and Sandra Ruckstuhl, Program Manager, SDSN Introduction San José, California was selected as a model city for the new USA Sustainable Cities Initiative (USA-SCI) in 2015.
Daniel Burrus
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
The big elephant in the room is that many connected devices are no longer created only by software giants, but by companies who do not automatically think about threat modeling or security issues and this could be quite concerning as we embrace the concept of the smart home or even smart city with open arms.
Sustainable Development Network
JULY 15, 2020
Global Citizen The SDGs, COVID-19 and the Global South: Insights from the Sustainable Development Report 2020 , Inter Press Service Why realizing the SDGs is more urgent than ever before , WBCSD How Different Countries Have Handled Covid-19, Ranked , UN Dispatch SDG Index Measures All Countries Progress Since 2015 , IISD SDG Report Reveals Setbacks (..)
Axis Communications Sustainability Blog
APRIL 27, 2021
The UN Sustainability Development Goals: a framework for cities. An important framework for cities large and small has been provided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Today, the largest investments are being made in cloud (87% of cities), mobile (85%), IoT (81%), biometrics (72%), and AI (66%).
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