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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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Enabling the Deep-Tech and Innovation Ecosystems in Vietnam, Taiwan and Africa

3BL Media

Since 2016, our startup initiatives have incubated or mentored 220 startups. Their end-to-end IoT applications span healthcare, smart cities, agricultural technology, smart homes, automotive, advanced computing, semiconductor design, XR, wearables, robotics and drones.

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Qualcomm’s 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report: Future Focused Research and Development

3BL Media

These Company-supported programs have incubated or mentored over 226 startups since 2016 in emerging regions, particularly those with an intensifying design talent pool, growing supply chain and local manufacturing expertise. These include India, Taiwan and Vietnam, or regions witnessing rapid adoption of digital technologies such as Africa.

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Demand for data sovereignty is moving to local government

Cisco CSR

Ever since the European Union issued the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, a seismic shift has taken place globally toward the need for data sovereignty. An early adopter of smart city innovation after working with Cisco, Accenture, Schneider Electric, and others, Barcelona was well positioned for this new initiative.

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Financing Urban Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Network

IEFE-Centre for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy of Bocconi University, in collaboration with UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network - Thematic Network Urban Development and the European Commission, will host an international conference on the topic "Financing urban sustainable development" on May 27, 2016.

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Building an SDG Data Dashboard for San José, California

Sustainable Development Network

In addition, recommendations for how the city could implement the SDGs at the local level were developed by faculty. The final report from this work, San José: Implementing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals at the Local Level , was published in December 2016.

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Achieving the SDGs in South Asia

Sustainable Development Network

Possible collaborations on flagship government programs such as Smart Cities (in India) with local universities could open the space for such support. 1] PPP, current US$, World Development Indicators, World Bank 2016 [2]. Rathin Roy, NIPFP, Ms. Yamini Aiyar, Center for Policy Research). [1]