Past decade of tech and next 10 ~ How to adapt to uncertainty
You didn't realize how quickly it happened. It just did. The past 10 years brought 4G LTE, putting the world in our pocket, connected instantaneously to infinite data, using the…
Smart Innisfil
From the town that ditched public transit for Uber, a new smart community in rural Innisfil Ontario called Orbit has been launched. The designers envision the Orbit as a hybrid…
Zero waste cities
A recent study by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada shows only 9 per cent of the 3.2 million tonnes of plastic waste generated each year in Canada is…
Solar powered cars
Why aren’t we driving around in solar-powered cars already? There are a few reasons why even the most advanced automobile companies haven't been able to develop fully solar-powered cars. But…
We’ll have self-flying cars before self-driving cars?
Why? “If you go a bit higher in the air then all the difficulties with not hitting stuff like children and bicycles and cars and so on just vanishes .…
Dispel the negative image of smart cities
It would seem that technology being designed to enhance our lives is receiving constant criticism and demonisation. This should not be the case – connecting the unconnected beyond a country’s…
Rural Canadian Valley certified world’s first “Smart and Sustainable Rural Region.”
The Gold Certification by the World Council on City Data puts the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia in the top ranks of smart cities around the globe – only the…
Mobile living spaces: Digital Nomads everywhere
Over the past few years we have seen an ever increasing amount of RVs, converted sprinter vans and vintage living vehicles parade on our highways into our towns. They are…
Resource towns to smart cities
Read our Toronto Star article about emerging BC #smartcities. Remove layers of bureaucracy, transform the old industry and get speedy innovation. This will set precedence for all resource towns in…
From competitive cities to cooperative cities
Cities need to move from conventional ways of managing from a focus on immediate fixes to smart and intelligent approaches that look at solving root causes. Aside from revenue distribution,…
