Radically optimizing the world
Recovery from coronavirus must lead to a better world. We simply cannot return to where we were before #COVID19 struck, with communities unnecessarily vulnerable to health, environment and economic crises.…
Smart Cities
Smart Cities for Emergency Response & Community Planning + Rural Opportunity
Last December, before the Coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese city of Wuhan signed an agreement with the communications giant Huawei to install infrastructure to enhance its security and information services and…
Smart Cities Tour 2020: Futuring During Pandemic & Climate Emergency
We have just returned from Taiwan, where we witnessed the birth of new smart cities and visited many top tier sustainable businesses. Taoyuan City hosted the Top7 Intelligent Communities of…
Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure
95 percent of serious car crashes are due to human error. There is an ever increasing amount of road traffic and semi trucks with new drivers on our major highways…
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…
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…
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,…
