Civic Hackathon Guide
Question 1 : What is hacking? What the heck is a hackathon? There are several definitions for “hacking” and we…
Radically optimizing the world
Recovery from coronavirus must lead to a better world. We simply cannot return to where we were before #COVID19 struck,…
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…
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…
Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure
95 percent of serious car crashes are due to human error. There is an ever increasing amount of road traffic…
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…
Smart Innisfil
From the town that ditched public transit for Uber, a new smart community in rural Innisfil Ontario called Orbit has…
Zero waste cities
A recent study by Deloitte for Environment and Climate Change Canada shows only 9 per cent of the 3.2 million…
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…
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…
